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64MB Compaq IPAQ On Sale -- Or Not?
jaredcat writes: "The until-recently rumored new 64MB IPAQ handheld with improved expansion-card capabilities finally went on sale today at Compaq Direct for $649. Seeing as the lesser 3650 model can't currently be found on the street for love or money (I've seen it listed as high as $1000), I'm grabbing my 3670 while I still can." For some reason, I can't find the higher-end one on the site -- am I alone? With 64MB, this beats all but my most recent computer. Pop in my Merlin wireless card, and I can roam the city talking to myself all day? Excellent.
Did someone forgot to close a italics tag? Why is (most of) the rest of the mainpage in italics?
Actually it's $3,224,408.00 right now... Some of their ASP scripts are crashing with such a high dollar amount.
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Yeah, get a Palm, Visor or VR3 is you want a PDA. If you want a Pocket Computer, get an iPAQ. With my 340MB udrive running the HHLinux Initimate distro (see handhelds.org), I have a complete Debian box in a handheld package. BTW, the PCMCIA sleeve has it's own battery. PCMCIA cards don't run down the iPAQ's battery. Backup batteries are *NOT* hard to make (or buy). Cpt_Kirks
who plans on a (semi) consumer shopping site to be SUDDENLY SLASHDOTTED. i mean, c'mon.
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8 hours? That's it? That's pitiful. Palm V's have internal batteries that get a day or two of continuous use, and a LOT more standby time. And they're 2/3 the thickness of previous Palms or less, which are (as others have admitted) significantly smaller than almost any CE device.
And yes, I guessed it might have an internal battery. But even with Li-Ion or Li-Poly, there's still a limit on how much power you can store before the thing gets huge. As I said - PC cards cause noticeable drain on laptops, where the batteries themselves have 3-4 (or more) times the volume of an entire iPaq, let alone its batteries.
And even if this PCMCIA sleeve had its own battery, it would have to be HUGE to supply a decent amount of power (see above).
My WorkPad fits in my pocket easily with no effort. It carries full maps of my own town and two others, carries movie listings at all times, and all of the usual addresses, etc. All in only 2M of memory. (I do wish I had more - but 8M would be more than I'd ever need. That could store an obscene number of maps...)
Browsing from a PDA would be the most painful experience I can imagine... Screen is way too small.
If you REALLY need that obscene kind of power, buy a nice, cheap Palm, and a used laptop. You'll spend about the same price as these super-CE devices, and have a LOT more functionality. Until there's the wireless bandwidth available for videoconferencing (available on WLANs, but not in general), there's absolutely no need for these PDAs on steriods, they're a waste of money.
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
I wasn't saying that the Newton was a bad piece of hardware. It just wasn't suitable to the PDA market, where it got destroyed by the significantly smaller and battery-saving Palms. Some people may have grown an attachment to it. But the majority (such as myself) did not, which is why it died. (Yes, I had a Newton - I hardly ever used it. It was slow, ate batteries, and HUGE.)
Having a huge load of features on a PDA is useless if it doubles or triples the price of the unit and >90% of the target market doesn't really want it.
Yeah, these look cool to geeks like us. But the primary market for these devices are businessmen to whom geek-factor such as "Cool, I can play MP3s, too!" is useless. An 8M PalmOS-based device is enough to more than satisfy the needs of most execs who need a PDA.
2M PalmOS-based devices are more than enough for a college or HS student who wants a bit of help getting organized. And unlike the iPaq, etc, Palms are affordable for the majority of college and HS students - I have lots of non-geek friends with Palms who use them regularly. They would NEVER think of getting anything more expensive, because they don't even use their Palms to their full potential.
The above two markets are what really make money, not the small geek minority.
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
No, don't buy a Neo 25.
:)
Buy an MP3 CD player, and a CD burner.
It will be more portable, and with the extra $100+, you can get (worst-case if you're REALLY lazy about shopping) 65 gigs of storage.
Solid-state MP3 is a waste of money, and will be for a long time to come.
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
I see these super-handhelds going the way of the Newton.
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The Newton was the same as the iPaq - the handheld that tried to do too much. And look at it's fate.
Palm, OTOH, keeps things simple. This results in devices that are:
a) Much less expensive
b) Smaller (Size was one of the main factors in the Newton's death. And all of these CE devices are larger than even Palm's largest.)
c) Power-conserving. Batteries in a Palm last forever. How often do you have to change the batteries in one of these iPaqs?
As to power consumption: For one, more memory = more power consumed. 8MB Palms have higher current draw than 2MB ones. Not by too much... But 64 megs?
PCMCIA - PCMCIA cards can cause a noticeable drop in battery life in a laptop with a huge Li-Ion battery, what do you think they're going to do to a handheld on AAAs? (Even AAs - But as soon as you move to AAs, your handheld is losing any size advantage it might have had.)
These handhelds are "cool", but I don't see them as anything more than that. My WorkPad (Palm III) suits me just fine, the only thing I wish I had was 8MB of memory, not 2. But 64 is ridiculous. (Eventually, I may solder in some bigger chips...
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
This reply is coming to you from an iPAQ running Linux over an 802.11 connection :-)
I'm writing it in vim in an xterm (actually rxvt) which was spawned by w3m, using GPLed handwriting recognition software. 'uname -a' gives:
Linux ipaq 2.4.0-test11-rmk1-np3 #67 Tue Jan 2 16:46:11 EST 2001 arm4l unknown
Check www.handhelds.org for the full story.
Paranoia isn't an infectious condition, it's a way of life
Grab yourself a new m500 or m505 (later this month) and a 64mb MMC or SD card (they'll hit 1gb by the end of the year).
Whipperschnapper...
:pp Gotta love progress...)
I remember when 64MB ALONE cost that much..
(Hell, I remember when 64KB was that much
Your Working Boy,
- Otis (GAIM: OtisWild)
Ack, I know SprintPCS handles data (uglily) in NYC, and there's Bell Mobilite digital roaming in Montreal, but when I was there I didn't get Wireless Web.. Maybe Data works, check out the SPCS/BM sites..
Best of luck!
Your Working Boy,
- Otis (GAIM: OtisWild)
When we were all working on machines of 16k/32k happily, 640k wasn't obviously bollocks in much the same way that 64meg obviously isn't bollocks to you now.
Commodore 64, Loading up the dance floor!
What's the battery life like on these things, particularly when running a wireless card?
Still, 64MB of storage would be awfully sweet on a Palm...
Jon Acheson
All opinions expressed herein are my own, and not those of my employers, who are appalled.
I know, and I could have, what, a gigabyte of secondary storage with a TRGPro and an IBM CompactFlash minidrive.
Onboard ram would be cooler than the secondary storage, though, because it would probably use less power, and because it would be real memory you could use without the hassle of accessing the storage media.
Jon
All opinions expressed herein are my own, and not those of my employers, who are appalled.
Jon Acheson
All opinions expressed herein are my own, and not those of my employers, who are appalled.
The BIOS is actually stored on a small partition on the beginning of the hard drive, which you probably blissfully FDISKed away. Normally you just press F10.
My DeskProXL once had NT, 98, OS/2, Linux, and Solaris installed simultaniously, and the config partition did not affect normal operation at all.
There was a good reason for this when Compaq made EISA machines - I never quite understood the reasoning for the ISA version, but if you understood how it works, it's really not worth hating.
The biggest problem I've had is a period 3-4 years ago when Compaq wouldn't ship a standard configuration for a particular model. You would get a "Compaq Video Adapter" or "Compaq NETIntellegant Ethernet Adapter", which in reality was any one of 10 things. That made supportability a real bitch, but I think they've fixed that issue with their newer boxes.
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Forgot to mention that - their laptops suck shit too, or at least have since about 1994.
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Well, in my experience "standard" BIOSes (and by this you mean the Phoenix BIOS) have been generally less reliable in terms of hardware detection and APM/ACPI support. I'd take a Compaq or Dell BIOS anyday, or (as on this machine) the "real" IBM BIOS.
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My first /. death threat! Next time, try quality name brand explosives instead of that 'work-alike' cheap clone stuff.
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It's not technically correct, but people use the term "BIOS" interchangably with "BIOS configuration user interface". As Pinball Wizard said: "you hit DEL typically to get into the bios". I think we all understand the difference.
But then, as pointed out, I never shut up. HAND.
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As others pointed out, the Zip was already on the market, and pretty popular among Mac users (no/slow Internet + Graphic Design = need for removable media).
There was a sort of handshake agreement between major PC companies to standardize on the LS-120 in 1995 or so. Then a big cost-cutting war started between Compaq and Dell, and they kinda forgot about adding any bells+whistles. Anyway, the place I worked got a pallet full of Compaqs with LS-120s at no extra cost one month. The next shipment was back to standard 1.44 drives.
Since then, it just missed it's mark. Back in those days, hard drives were 540MB and 1G were just shipping, so 120MB was compartively a lot of storage. Now days, it seems most consumer machines ship with CD-RW, so there you go.
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I'm curious what Compaq products you've had experience with.
It's true that their consumer desktops (Presario) line is pretty piss-poor, but I've always found their corporate stuff reliable and their server stuff excellent.
Anyway, they're a big company - so big that maybe they don't realize that they're tarnishing their once top-of-the-industry reputation with a bunch of young users with those cheap crap home units.
My understanding is that the iPaq handheld comes out of the old DEC part of Compaq - take that for what it's worth.
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Yeah and when I saw my first TRS-80 Model I at the local Radio Shack, I was told "it comes with 2 kilobytes of RAM, and you can get a 4 kilobyte version... but you don't NEED anything more than 2 K for ANYTHING."
Wake up. Those who forget the past are forever doomed to repeat it.
>> support for 4GB userland process
Does this mean that someone actually has a patch for 2.4 to make the memory management suck a little less? AFAIK, 2.4 still requires 1G address space for kernel, meaning any user program can only use 3G it self. Additionally, the address space is so fragmented, the largest contiguous chunk is about 2G. Really bites if you have a 4G system that you would like to use all on one process.
Any further info on this claim?
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Lycestra
Compaq iPaq 3670 which "street" wise is listing for $650, can not be in too high a demand (other than people electronically rubber-necked to see a PDA with 64MB). Yet, the Compaq Direct site is choking.It is one thing for the small fries to get slashdot smashed. I think is it poor planning/design/whatever on the part of a company the size of Compaq to choke and sputter. RedHat with its new release of 7.1 is probably getting hammered harder, but atleast they are cleanly surviving it from what I can see (no I have not gotten a copy from any of the mirrors, even though I am watching them religiously for the images to appear).Companies, such as Compaq, should have a better idea of what kind of traffic they should be able to handle and should plan accordingly. Right now their web presence shows them to be a less than solid player.
In a place beyond time and space, in a land far better than this, look for me there...
With 64MB, this beats all but my most recent computer.
All but your most recent computer has less than 64 MB of storage space? No wonder all of my submissions get rejected...
Cheers,
levine
If all you want is to roam the streets all day talking to yourself, all you need is some magic mushroom tea. Why waste money?
I have a quick question.
My experience with Comaq has been pretty piss-poor. In fact, I've said in the past that I would never, ever buy anything from Compaq again. I've held to this promise for over five years now.
So my question is, how does the IPAQ rate? I've heard lots of random stuff, but nothing definitive. People seem to like it. But it's from Compaq. How does this balance out? Is it worth calling off my vendetta against Compaq because they have actually come out with a decent product?
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2. With the addons, such as the PCMCIA reader, the battery life is quite appalling. Standard life is around 5-8 hours of continuous use, witha Microdrive, and listening to MP3s, expect maybe 3-4 hours, tops. You might not have a problem with recharging your Pocket PC every night, but PalmOS users can expect weeks out of a set of battery charges, not hours. Don't expect to go on a trip and use it a lot if you don't have AC access.
3. The CPU is 206MHz, and is fast enough to play 15fps WMV video, so you could play WMV encoded video on it on a plane, train, etc., . A 15fps Star Trek episode is around 45MB in size, no ads. This, like Mp3, chews battery though.
4. Compaq designed the controller badly - it cannot do diagonal movement, although it looks like it can. They have refused to fix this with a Flash upgrade, which only IPAQ of all the PocketPC CE 3.0 devices can do. As yet, game playign is far better on the Casio, which unfortunately has less RAM as standard and a slower CPU, but has real 8 way controlling.
In short, if you need a PDA, get a Visor for under $200 and wait for real next-gen devices to come around, unless you have a) excess cash, b) are an early adoptor. The only advantages an IPAQ has over a Visor are that it looks cooler, and the potential to play MP3, video,e tc., but that all comes at a cost - lack of portability, which is the original purpose of PDAs.
And that's the bottom line, 'cos I say so.
Acting stupid isn't much fun when there's someone around who knows better
Iomega purposely made Zip drives so they couldn't read floppy drives. They wanted to make sure people purchased zip media, that's where they make all their money. The zip drives have a next to nothing margin.
That doesn't sound very realistic. Most people with a Zip drive will also have a floppy drive. They choose Zip media, if they do, for capacity, not because it's the only thing that'll work in their drives. If the Zip drive could read floppy disks you just wouldn't need a floppy drive any more, it wouldn't have much impact on what media people used.
I've been using a 64Mb iPAQ with a PCMCIA adapor and WaveLAN card to run some of my PhD. stuff on, because I'm doing low-power wireless applications stuff. I run the handhelds.org Linux on it and build stuff in Python and I have to say that it rocks.
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The big advantage I can see of device like this is that they take up the functionality of MP3 players and other wearable devices and put them in a single, flexible unit. Also, I can take the thing home, work on it, albeit via a client PC to view the screen on, and then walk in to the lab and log back in there, again from a dumb client.
The big problem I see is battery life. The original Itsy dealt with this by having a cholesteric display, I think, so that it could be powered off but still display data. Battery life of an identical unit to mine used as an MP3 player and Palm-style device is about 3 days, while mine gives about 6 hours with Linux on it. So it's a cradle-baby.
As the technology (hardware & software) improves to take more account of power, I think these things will really take off.
But then I would say that, because that's the subject of my PhD. So I suppose I should really have said "biased opinion" in the title...
Looks like the poster didn't remove his session ID from the link. Now all of Slashdot seems to be adding to a universal cart.
At one point the total was well over $150,000.
Sam
If the site can't adapt itself to a palmtop screen, that's poor Web design, not a fault of the palmtop. The specifications for the Web were carefully designed to be device (and resolution) independsnt.
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.
An I wriming fern an Upper Nenton Masking Pond 1 oo. Any wander they stoop ed marking these?
Too big to fail? Does that make me to small to succeed?
One with a spell checker, right?
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Roaming the city talking to yourself all day, that is. People have been doing it for years. I usually give them my spare change as I walk by...
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Yes, RadioShack. I just ordered a 3650 from them last week. They use a diffrent ordering system, and tend to have them available ALOT of the time. This link is to the 3635, but they do have the 3650 in stock. Call them up and ask them. I've had to order several, and each time I called the Rat Shack it was there.
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As a PDA, it is following in the Newton's path.
If it was said on slashdot, it MUST be true!
A few mentions of Linux but not one bash of Windows CE. Is it possible that slashdotters actually like WinCE? Whoa...
when I first got there, it appeared that I'd chosen to buy 999 USB Cradles..not much use with out the iPaq..then after a reload, I had one of everything..
CpQ really should gimme a call & get me to sort out their site..
anyway, incase you couldn't find it on the site, use 222527-001 as the QuickAccessCode..hmm which also doesn't work, as I've just discovered..
CpQ..call me..
it's the taking apart that counts
come on, ya pansy..Have at you!
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alright, we'll call it a draw..Oh, I see..Running away are you??..Come back here & take what's coming to you..I'll bYte your legs off!!
it's the taking apart that counts
oops..replied to the wrong one
it's the taking apart that counts
wait a sec..no I didn't...SlashCode Maker..why aren't .sig's shown in the preview..
it's the taking apart that counts
I have had nothing but good experiences with Compaq, but I don't touch their personal line. The iPaq desktops at the office, proliant servers, deskpro systems, they've all been terrific. Also, their support is top notch. I can call up at 3 AM, get a useful person on the phone, and if I need a part, they FedEx it out quickly. They've been tremendously helpful for all my systems.
Alex
Price Watch helps.
No, it isn't. Look at the first post. As any fool can see:
Posted by timothy on Monday April 16, @03:43PM
from the noooooiiice dept.
jaredcat writes:
is not italicized. On the further posts, all text except the headlines are italicized. Furthermore, clicking on the "Read More" link for any of the news items will reveal that the text is not intended to be italicized.
Through basic logic one can deduce that the error lies in the "64MB Compaq IPAQ On Sale".
"A good conspiracy is an unprovable one." -Conspiracy Theory
Anyone with a digital tuner on their video card could record their favorite TV shows, compress them and watch them the next day on the train to work (or write a script that compresses and uplinks to the microdrive automatically...). Also, the Microdrives are interchangeable, so you have effectively unlimited storage (well it is limited by the size of your wallet of course).
If you ask me, this stuff's starting to get simply insane, if we can do this *now*, imagine a year, or even two years from now.
"He's more machine now than man, twisted and evil."
All I want to do is hook an IPaq up to my cell phone so I can telnet to the servers at work when I'm at lunch... is this possible? Pointers?
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The answer is in your own post. If Iomega made Zip drives able to read floppies in the begining, it would be game over for floppy and LS-120's both. I like LS-120 because it is a fast floppy but it came on the scene after Zip was pretty entrenched.
Well it has a 12 bit screen rather than a 16 bit one...it has no built in expandability...it cannot recognize more than one button press at a time...and has a dust problem...the new ones now have a color problem....and oh yea it looks like something out of the matrix which makes it l33t despite the problems.
Looks like timothy forgot to close his italic command! :) Seeing slashdot in all italics reminds me of my early days learning HTML and how I made all my webpages bold or italic accidentally all the time...
I can surf the web wirelessly for two weeks on a single AA Alkaline supermarket brand battery using my RIM 950 pager.
Of course, I don't have colour.
But then again, my battery only cost $0.50.
Hard choice... But I think I'll stick with stuff that uses AAs for now.
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
With 64 MB of RAM festival could be ported to the thing.
Then any book on project Gutenberg could be read aloud.
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
Personally I would love to have one of these sexy machines for myself. The downside is definitly the price. For 650 I could get myself an OK laptop, and I can do a hell of a lot more on it. I wish compaq could find a way to cut costs on these, I think they could easily surpass the palms.
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I have the same combo, using GoAmerica's Go.Web, and my web browsing has been very fast. It seems faster than the AirCard+Sony VAIO combo I also use. I love my Ipaq 3650. I paid $670 for mine new (it was really in demand, and I had the cash) and I love it. Now I want the 2 PC Card sleeve so I can stick a 256MB memory card in there and really use the MP3 capabilities. The single PC Card sleeve for the ipaq has its own LiOn battery in addition to the one built into the main unit. I've web browsed, e-mailed, AceBartendered, and WorkOrder'd all day and didn't use up more than a tiny bit of battery life. And for the past 6 years I've said NO to Compaq. In fact, the last compaq I owned was the old luggable with the green 7" CRT and 2 5.25" floppies.
Roaming between Montreal and New York City, I was wondering if anyone knew of a wireless solution for Internet accesss that will work in both of the formentioned cities?
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Our computer at home gets used pretty much only for Email and nickjr.com. My wife wanted something that went with her IKEA furniture. Sue me.
Check out this Ad for 64k for 1500 bucks.
I think timothy forgot to close an html [i] (triangle brackets) tag as the whole page is now in italics.
stop talkling to yourself.
64 whole MB of ram, wait... how much HD does this thing have? Wait...flash cards?? Damn this thing is crappy. Oh yeah, it sucks!
*click* *click* *click*
"You need a grave-yard to bury dead drives..."
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
If I'm not mistaken, you can get one of those PC card expansion packs and add a 1GB IBM Microdrive, no? Surely, that's pretty sweet. Especially if you use it with your digital camera...
The iPaq is simply amazing to a guy whose first personal computer had 16K (kilo not mega) bytes of RAM and a 2mhz z80 processor...
Really, the wireless network is to slow for serious use, but works ok for email. And, 32 meg is not nearly enugh memory if you plan to use the machine for entertainment. And yeah, it runs DOOM pretty well.
StoneWolf
Buy a Palm or Visor for palm computing.
Buy a Neo 25 for portable mp3 listening.
It's just that simple. I can't understand why anybody would even waste their time with a 64mb solid state player. I'll take a 20 gig player I can stick in my pocket any day.
lol...so true... I just had to put in a long and cruel laugh at someone else's expense ;)
"Christ what a design! I could eat a handful of iron filings and PUKE a better emergency pump than that!"
OK so my new Visor Edge only has 8 MB and this is offering 64MB. As they are using different OS and other software is this a direct comparison? Or do the different systems use different amounts of memory to do the same thing?
Please limit your purchase to 10 units.
Oh no!!! I'll only make a few grand on ebay!!! :)
this is fine if you intend to run Linux on it.. what microsoft and compaq has failed to tell anyone (wince buying suckers) about, is the addressable ram issue, and file size limits with WinCE 2.12(call it whatever you feel best).. the most it can access is 16MB.. so even though you have 64, you can only use 16 as ram.. every CE unit i have used, you cannot move the memory slider past 16MB.. this is the major reason that most OEMs are not putting more than 32MB total.. CE can't use files in excess of 16MBs.. (maximum addressable in ram).. this would make 64Megs, just more storage on the unit itself.. 16MB ram, and 48MB storage.. so, for WinCE, it's useless.. about as useless as WinCE is..
i hate microsoft.
For some reason, I can't find the higher-end one on the site -- am I alone? With 64MB, this beats all but my most recent computer. Pop in my Merlin wireless card, and I can roam the city talking to myself all day? Excellent.
The way this post sounded, one would think this dude is a basehead on a binge or something. 64mb on your PC? Well for the price of that little toy you could jack your pc's mem up easily.
I never understood why one would rush out to buy the latest hardware or even software, especially when their brand spanking new, when as tech shows up, next month something more high powered is about to hit the big screen and so called "blow your mind." So why the big hooplah over this.
As you were
360 degrees of Karma
Gee, it cost nearly half of that of my first car($1500). I'm going to rush out and spend masses amounts of money for a measley amount of RAM.
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Get a realy computer.
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You stupid bastard, you don't have no arms left. It's just a flesh wound.
You forgot one: The IPAQ can run Linux, the Visor cannot. I had a Visor; I dumped it to get an IPAQ for this very reason. Now, if I could only find one...
If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
From the handhelds.org FAQ: "Why open handhelds?"
Personally, it's because I want to be able to write programs for it without first having to send large amounts of my limited resources to Redmond for the compiler, etc. That, and my wife works for Them and loves her Jornada, and I'd like an iPaq running Linux just to piss her off :-)
Alas, we just paid our taxes and it seems an iPaq is not in my immediate future...
If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
Iomega purposely made Zip drives so they couldn't read floppy drives. They wanted to make sure people purchased zip media, that's where they make all their money. The zip drives have a next to nothing margin.
i suggest you buy one and listen to some books-on-tape MP3's. Then possibly you'll stop making non-sense such as this.
Will the same distribution of linux built for the lesser models also run on this one?? I suppose it might be too early to know for sure, but looking at the specifications, it should run just fine. Now if only they could put some more colors on that little screen......
Where's my lobbyist? Right here.
Books on tape mp3? Even using 32KBS encoding, that's only enough for about 4 hours. Most books on tape are a lot longer than that.
TODO: Something witty here...
640k, is, obiviously, bollucks. At this rate, 'Pocket PCs' are gonna need cooling fans and A/C power soon..
TODO: Something witty here...
A handheld doesn't NEED 64MB of RAM. That's just a coverup for poor programming!
TODO: Something witty here...
The supply problem lies with the side-lit screen. Sharp makes it--and can't ramp up to make enough of them. Sharp itself is not going belly up (at least, not yet), but it's lead bank is in dire straits, along with a dozen other big names in Japanese banking. You have to ask yourself, however, what kind of dumb firm is Compaq to develop such a blockbuster product and then trust a vulnerable single source for so critical a component. Haven't these guys ever heard of technological risk assessment? Baldylocks
His password is "make-money-fast-at-hotmail-dot-com"
IN TEH FUCHAR, LITERSY WLIL EB OPSHANAL!!!!!111
Does anybody know if it is possible to load some distribution of linux on this thing? Although ill have to agree and say my experience with Compaq has been pretty bad, it would be neat to have such a powerful handheld running linux. With a wireless card in there, think of the possibilities... Also, when they say wireless do they mean 802.11b?
Compaq ipaq 3670 206MHZ 64MB Pocket PC Color
We can create a handheld machine with 64 megs of ram, we have video cameras that hold more storage then I have RAM, and yet computers still ship with 1.44 floppy drives.