Review of the Handspring Treo

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.'"

Comments

Re:But does it do Linux?

[metis]

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!?

iPod

[foo fighter]

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! ;-)