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Review of the Handspring Treo

Posted by timothy on from the just-happy-to-see-you dept.

axlrosen writes: "Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal reviews the new Handspring Treo, and loves it. 'For the past week, I have been carrying around a new hand-held, wireless device that is simultaneously the best personal digital assistant I have ever used and the most capable cellphone.'"

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  1. Re:But does it do Linux? by metis · · Score: 5, Funny
    I really don't get it. I spent the last year getting my oven and fridge run linux. Finally, this thansgiving dinner, I astounded everyone when I typed

    tar -xzf /fridge/turkey.tgz /
    && echo 380 > /proc/oven/preheat /
    && cat turkey > /dev/oven

    e Voila! dinner is done without me entering the kitchen.

    And you're telling me you don't care!?

    --
    -- look, cheese ahoy!
  2. iPod by foo+fighter · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think for their next iPod, Apple should add a couple features:

    1) Cellphone that works with all the cell networks
    in the world.

    2) 802.11x or whatever that new superfast wireless
    standard is that works with 802.11b, v.92 modem,
    Gigabit ethernet, and the LCD backlight should be
    able to blink morse code.

    3) Military GPS accurate to 1"

    4) A keyboard and also hand recognition (but not
    graffiti crap, REAL hand recognition). And voice
    recognition.

    5) It's screen should be color and widescreen
    format so I can watch my cracked DVDs on it.

    6) It should run linux, but have virtual machines
    so it can also run Palm and Windows apps. Oh, and
    a gameboy advance emulator.

    7) The battery should last at least a week,
    preferably two.

    8) None of this SDMI crap. I can put on and take
    off anything. In fact, it should have a video and
    audio in, so I can take input straight from my DVD
    player into the device and share them with my
    friends.

    9) It should be the same size it is now, and still
    use firewire.

    10) Flash card, Smartmedia, multimedia card and
    PCMCIA slots.

    Oh, and I won't pay more than $150 for it.

    That'd be cool! ;-)

    --
    obviously no deficiencies vs. no obvious deficiencies
    1. Re:iPod by sporty · · Score: 2, Funny

      would you like fries with that?

      --

      -
      ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only

  3. Re:The reason for QWERTY.. by Jason+Earl · · Score: 3, Funny

    One of the major reasons that I got into computing is that I can't alphabetize for crap. Most people know intuitively whether W comes before or after T, but I actually have to think about it. However, after years of typing at a QWERTY keyboard QWERTY has become part of my subconscious. I can guarantee you that if they were to arrange the keys in alphabetical order I would quickly find myself singing the ABC song in order to find the 'M' key. That would be bad.

    And don't give me any crap about how "learning another keyboard layout is easy." I have tried. Apparently my brain is miswired for this sort of thing.