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Thoughts on the CyberBoy PDA and Penbex OS?

Posted by Cliff on from the searching-for-peer-opinions dept.

An Anonymous Coward asks: "I was flipping through the new issue of Maxim and in the tech section they had a listing for the CyberBoy PDA. It is an MP3 player, camera, voice recorder, and PDA. After reading the website it looks like it uses Penbex OS. Has anyone had experience with these? and if so how are they?"

5 comments

  1. Not shabby by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    However, aside from the built-in camera, it seems like a fairly run-of-the-mill PDA. Not even a relatively good one, at that. The new CE devices are coming really soon that will have all the features present there minus the digital camera. Palm (if it doesn't go out of business soon) should have something nice coming soon incorporating recently acquired BeOS technology.

    I don't see any reason why you'd want this particular device. It looks a little bulky as well.

  2. Is it just me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or does the Penbex OS look suspiciously like a localized version of the Palm OS? There's no mention of Palm anywhere on the Penbex site, but the closeup shots are unmistakeable.

  3. Ah, the joy of slashdot... by biglig2 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...people reading MAxim for the articles ;-)

    Only 8Mb or RAM, seems a little stingy, although I'm sure you'd fill the sd slot quickly.

    It's a bit odd isn't it that it sez it's color but all the photos and screen shots are mono?

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    ~~~~~ BigLig2? You mean there's another one of me?
    1. Re:Ah, the joy of slashdot... by brunes69 · · Score: 2

      It says the camera is color (can take color pictures), but says nothing about the screen