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Review: The New Casio Pocket PC E-200
msolnik writes: "PocketNow has done an in-depth review of the new Casio Pocket PC E-200. It has a built in compact flash and SD slot. It has a 206mhz strong arm, reflective screen and a replacable rechargeable battery. In my opionion it looks very cool and seems like it could do some damage to the IPAQ's sales. On a side note it should run linux no problem."
It seems that, for the most part, all palms and variants are mainly the same. I am still chugging along with my Palm IIIxe and putting aside the desire for a rechargable cradel instead of using AAA power.. I have found no great reason to compel me to purchase a newer model. It appears that everything after the originals are simply bell and whistles with no "I've got to have it" functionality. What about Palms that come equipped with built in radar detectors.. so while on the road you can mount it to your dash board and plug it into your cigarette lighter! Or built in scanning capabilities that are able to detect Radio frequencies so I can scan my house for wire taps and bugs. Or a montion detector that I can point around the corner of my cubicle.. and will sound off when my boss is coming.
I mean really!! Even M$ comes with tons of useful things already in it.. even if the system itself sucks.
Oh.. one last thing.. what about a built in unique encryption key.. with a retractable USB cord. This can be plugged into any USB equipped machine and you can use the key for file encryption or even for identity purposes simalair to a keyspan.
Maybe it's just me and my tight wallet.. but I don't see the hype lately!
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If only it had the PalmOS on it. Palm's new StrongARM units, if done well, should solidly defeat the PocketPCs once and for all. That would be a nice blow to M$ to have them lose in a market they've invested billions in. Maybe Linux will be next :).
...is someone -really- working on porting Linux to it? "Should" really means nothing here...the effort needed to play the "flash game" to get Linux on there is NOT fun. The iPaq people have inside help from Compaq on this one...is the same true for this device?
As an aside, the GCC-ARM code is terrible. GCC -still- has a vexing bug with optimization on the ARM platform. If you compile something with optimizations, it will blow up when you run it. This really needs to be fixed, or else Wince will have the speed advantage.
I agree that linux is a good secure Server system, but for the life of me I can't understand what you would want it on a PDA for. Use the best tool for the job - This exludes Win XP as well.
I realize that the 16 MHz DragonBall chips are still pretty sufficient for coping with storing addresses, notes, and the likes; it's just irritating that it's stayed at the same speed for so long.
That's probably enough to start moving towards doing some "real" work, although if you want more than 15 minutes worth of MP3s, you'll still have to wait for the 256MB model.
I don't think these get to be truly better "mousetraps" until they have a pretty serious amount of storage space.
A year ago, it made sense that the iPAQ was expensive as an 'early-adopter" product; the continuing-to-be-hefty price is not particularly attractive.
I think it's pretty cool and all that IBM has built a wrist-watch that runs Linux; that doesn't forcibly grip me as being fundamentally important.
PalmOS is old enough that it may be getting "old in the tooth;" it's still pretty much useful enough. (Except for playing MP3s, but it's cheaper to get a recent Diamond Rio for that...)
A new model from another maker may be News for Nerds, but I have to wonder if it's really Stuff that matters.
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