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Toshiba Pocket PC e570 Review
msolnik writes: "PocketNow has a review of the new Toshiba Pocket PC e570. With an integrated CompactFlash Type I/II, Secure Digital (SD) slot, a 206Mhz StrongArm, and upto 64MB of ram the Toshiba is going to give the IPAQ a run for its money. Just FYI with some slight modifications the Handhelds.org IPAQ Linux distro should run just fine on the Toshiba."
Another PDA?
Uh, is this only newsworthy, cause the submitted said "it might be able to carry a linux distro"?
In that case, my toilet may carry a linux distro. Is that news?
Must be a slow news day....
Geez, expensive, heavy and big. I already have a desktop PC.
I'll stick with my Handspring for now thanks. (Cheap, light, and small.)
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Give me LIBERTY, or give me a check.
I don't see any mention of this on their official site. Anyone have a link to the data sheets?
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/pda/pda_home.html. There you have 7 seconds to find it!
The e570 is one of the smallest devices on the market; its only bulge appears in its thickness because of the two slots. Both a lightweight and a small guy.
Try again genius. Maybe next time by READING the article, instead of glancing at the pictures and making a lame first post attempt.
The e570s Official Homepage is The e570s Official Homepage. They have features, specs, videos, and accessories on there.
so quit trying to "keep up". Buy one that suits your needs, and keep it. If there aren't any handhelds that suit your needs, then don't buy one.
~wally
One of the smallest pocketPC devices, not even close when compared to Palm devices. Do some research dude.
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What i'd really like is an NTSC video out on one of these buggers, 'cause that'd make it a perfect wearable (not to mention a really cool portable on-the-spot presentation machine. Just imagine, plug into the projector and run, no hassle).
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Play Six Pack Man. I
No, this is much bigger in size and weight. Ohh, and price.
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What does it get me that a plain ole CF card would not give me?
I'm assuming you purchased the iPaw 37xx series, which was the bargain-priced PocketPC 2002 iPaq precisely because it lacked the expansion capabilities that all other PocketPC 2002 devices have.
If you need a journaling filesystem on your handheld, you have problems.
I have had WinCE devices and Palm Devices since basically 1.0 days, and NONE have ever had "corrupted flash memory cards" unless i stuck the thing through a high powered xray machine on one of my hundreds of flights i have taken.
"Considerably more responsive with linux on it"..
Strange, i can watch movies, play mp3's, play doom, and tons of other things on my Compaq running CE 3.0 (as well as surf the net, check email, view appointments, view docs, record memos and voice notes) and my unit "seems considerably more responsive" then i have ever seen linux run on these.
oh well, to each there own.
I don't see anyone using them for Quake or DOOM.
You haven't looked hard enough!
Download Quake, Doom, a flight sim, and a NES emulator here:
www.pocketpcpocket.com.
thenerd.
The camels are coming. I'm in love.
Actually, there's a filesystem designed for this very application. It's called JFFS, or Journaling Flash Filesystem. The original development for the filesystem was done by Axis Communications, but it has since migrated to the kernel proper under the term JFFS2. You can probably follow discussions regarding this filesystem and the kernel API at the Memory Technology Devices site. Check out the mailing list archives and/or subscribe to linux-mtd from the aforementioned site.
assert(expired(knowledge));
Apparently, the device doesn't recognize diagonals on the game pad. This makes it almost completely useless as a gaming device.
This issue seems even more annoying than the button problems on the iPaq, but hopefully Toshiba can fix with a software patch, or at least in future hardware revisions
Hitachi makes a better processor called the SuperH. But why no one is using it is beyond me.
"And the iPaq was state of the art. Now most devices have built-in slots."
How funny that we would consider the inclusion of CF/PCMCIA slot(s) "state of the art" in the year 2001. I remember my first WindowsCE device (HP300 LX I think) --- it had CF and PCMCIA over 4 years ago (not to mention that PCMCIA slot in my HP200LX in the mid 90's), and now we think that the inclussion of CF/PCMCIA in an IpaQ type device is state of the art....More evidence to suggest that the companies building the tech stuff have no clue what would make their devices a "killer MUST HAVE device..."
P.S. -- I am having a hard time getting used to the Palm I have nowadays....The lack of a keyboard or a PCMCIA slot is a hard pill to swallow....(I am not talking about those wierd fold up keyboards that are bigger than the PALM itself....)
(+1 Funny) only if I laugh out loud.
>Playing games ?
>With this display you really can't go any
>further then gameboy style one. I don't see
>anyone using them for Quake or DOOM.
For many, gameboy style games are vastly superior to any Quake/Doom incarnations.
You have your right to be anti-technology if you don't like any of the palm sized devices.
I for one, find keeping addresses on a palm more convenient than on the "notebook (the paper ones)".
I'll never again use the "notebook (the paper one)" to "keep address etc."
Of course you have the right to not like them - the world is divided among different opinions...
However, I think modding the parent as "insightful" is quite a stretch of reality.