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Toshiba e740 Pocket PC

Posted by michael on from the stuff-to-drop dept.

Brian writes "Details of the e740, Toshiba's XScale model which will be powered by PocketPC 2002 has been leaked. PDA LIVE.com has the scoop and the photo :)" Integrated 802.11b, nice.

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  1. What's needed on new PDAs and Not Yet Available by pinkpineapple · · Score: 5, Interesting

    - 3D to a lesser extent than desktop: If I buy one of these, it's gonna be to play on it half of the time.
    - USB in: HP did release a Palm PC allowing you to connect devices like keyboard, mouse and the like to it. And that was really cool when using it on a desktop. Unfortunately, no USB hub on these little sucker.
    - No integrated extended battery pack ala VAIO. What I would like to get is a double or triple life battery extension that matches the design of the PDA.
    - Most PDA come with no screen cover. Being the most fragile part of a device that you are supposed to carry all over the place, this one is just a pure puzzle to me.
    - I want WiFi AND Bluetooth, not one or the other.
    - Wireless earphones so I can listen to my mp3s without tripping in the cables, or hanging myself when I take out my coat.
    - etc...

    PPA, the girl next door.

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    -- I feel better now. Thanks for asking.
  2. When will Pocket PC get a bigger screen? by Qrlx · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yay, 400 MHz must mean it's twice as fast as my 206 MHz IPaq, right? Well, regardless my main problem with the PocketPC line is that the screens are so small, by which I mean they don't have enough pixels. There's that new Clie or whatever with a 480x320 screen, and this dinky little PocketPC has a screen half that size. I'm just not impressed, even if it does say Microsoft when you turn it on.

    Porting your 640x480 app to a screen 1/4 the size is not easy!

    The other problem that I have with PocketPC is that the PocketPC Terminal Services Client won't let you run 128-bit encryption. Strange, considering that the Citrix Client does 128-bit encryption just fine. Citrix figured it out but MS, who CODED THE POCKETPC OS can't get it to work. Not very reassuring.

    And whoever said that PocketPC needs some kind of screen cover is right. And the OS itself is extremely difficult to work with from an installling-drivers-for-the-802.11-card perspective. Like to install software you have to have a Windows PC running ActiveSync. They should focus more on making the PocketPC a computer capable of standing on its own and not requiring constant trips to the cradle.