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Toshiba e740 Pocket PC
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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I like these little computers. Imagine when we'll be able to wear them on our wrists!
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Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
let's roast on my first poast
3 posts and its dead. Is this a new record? Whos got a copy?
Whatever happened to the e570?
I can't even seem to find it on toshiba.com.
I was really looking forward to them putting it on the shelves.
Did they cancel production or something?
It had SD AND a CF expansion slot.
Je l'ai
This unit uses a stripped-down version of Win98 and not XP embedded to save on costs. I still think they would be better served going with a Linux based os.
ohhhh yeah.... I want it. I hope it can run FreeBSD... ;)
Is VA linux going to sell these?
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Doesn't look all that
Interesting that the article alludes to "production difficulties" with the XScale. Anyone know what did Intel manage to do to screw up StrongARM? I know they had problems with USB on early SA-1100s, but the article is talking about CPU performance issues...
Jon.
These devices run WinCE, not any free OS. Hey Taco, why don't you just cut to the chase and fellate Bill Gates in public?
Personally I think it is, despite what the Intel web site says. Everything has been carefully worded to imply that it's merely ARM "compliant" but I somehow think there's more to this than meets the eye.
What do you think?
p.
Mod my post down, I posted the specs to the wrong model.
... on how long it takes someone to get a Linux kernel hacked onto the thing :)
400MHz Intel XScale Processor, a 3.5" 16-bit reflective screen, 64MB RAM, 32MB ROM
Get two e740's, add a little more ROM and it's better than my pc...I really need to have a talk with the wife about my allowance.....
P.S.Could someone extract all these "anonymous cowards" from my butt?
Only 400MHz? With MS on there, you should wait for a 2GHz version.
:)
BTW, I like peanut butter.
I'm inside circuitcity writing this form their unix terminals with netscape. I saw this article and said to myself, wasn't i just playing with this e740 one minute ago. I wen tback to the pda section and saw it. This model doesn't seem to have wifi though, it says "WiFi ability" though. I'll ask in a minute to see if they have these with wifi now. It looks nice, but I would never buy a ppc, palm is better for me.
- 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.
-- I feel better now. Thanks for asking.
blue unplugged.com has a review, and expansys.com accepts preorder.
Cheers!
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As PDA Live appears to be /.ed:
http://www.pocketpccentral.net/toshiba740.htm
NEW YORK, June 2 (UPI) -- An Immigration and Naturalization Service decision to bar part-time Canadian students from U.S. colleges and universities could force hundreds of Canadians attending local schools to halt their educational plans, The Buffalo News reported Sunday.
The INS statute, on the books for years but not enforced until now, is being reactivated as part of an emphasis on homeland security.
Not surprisingly, educators on both sides of the border are objecting to the imposition of the travel restriction.
D'Youville College in downtown Buffalo caters heavily to Canadians who comprise about 900 of its 2,400 students, about 150 of whom are part-time.
Ontario colleges and professional programs in law and medicine are already strained by Canada's growing population, the newspaper said, forcing many students to seek higher education across the border. Students travel to take classes in the Buffalo area from as far away as Toronto.
Some part-time students may convert to full-time status to continue their education but at a heavy price. Canadian students pay nearly $2 Canadian for every $1 in American funds.
Niagara University reports that 91 Canadian students are registered for part-time studies this summer. Since they began their classes before the INS May 22 cutoff date, they will be allowed to pursue their studies as planned.
But they'll need to allow extra time to get to class now that they need to park at customs and show a copy of their I-94, an Arrival/Departure Record, each time they cross the border.
Small computers are great, but they do lack one thing that most geeks see as paramount in desktop systems, that is upgrading and builing them yourself. Though with laptops you can add/remove ram and harddrive(s) you cannot change the key compontents such as the cpu. What we need is some kind of standard that small/wearable computers need to be built around, not only would that help small businesses that don't have the money to start from scratch but it would also make a wearable computers move forward and become aplicable to the things we use desktops and servers for today.
Carpe meam simiam!
Palm is the way to go!!!!!!!!!!!
IIRC, 802.1x will start showing up in PPC PDAs in the first quarter of next year, on a per manufacturer basis.
Until then, you don't get security, which means that you can't use your fancy device, for example, at Microsoft's corporate campus.
My employer requires 802.1x on our wireless network, so I'm not excited yet.
MUNDELEIN, IL--Lawrence and Marcia Sprouse expressed concern Monday that their 15-year-old son Adam, after years of being a social outcast, is in danger of falling in with the popular crowd at Mundelein High School.
"All the signs point to him getting involved with the popular kids," Marcia said. "The last few Saturday nights, instead of staying home and watching a movie, he's been out at parties. He's also been hanging around this boy who's on the school baseball team. Parties, hanging out with jocks--what's become of my baby boy?"
Primary among the Sprouses' worries is the prospect of Adam being exposed to drugs and alcohol.
"I'm not naïve about what goes on with these kids who aren't in the AP classes," Marcia said. "They stay up late, laughing and drinking beer and socializing without any parental supervision. Sometimes, they even experiment with pot. I just hope this socializing phase passes, and that Adam will soon be back to hanging out in the basement playing Risk with his old friends."
For years, the Sprouses did not worry about Adam, secure in the knowledge that he would reach adulthood without facing the problems and pressures faced by so many of his more popular, attractive, socially skilled classmates.
"Other parents always worry about their kids experimenting with drugs and sex," Lawrence said. "Marcia and I never did. But now, there are all sorts of new questions. What happens when Adam is offered a joint? Or he meets a girl who's ready to go beyond first base? Or a group of kids invite him to drive to Chicago and stay overnight in a hotel?"
Throughout high school, Adam had been singularly focused on getting into MIT to get a math degree before landing a job at Fermilab. His college and career plans, however, are now up in the air.
"I was asking Adam about the future, and he told me he might not want to get a Ph.D in calculus anymore," Lawrence said. "I asked him why and he said he was thinking about studying psychology or maybe even political science instead. Then he muttered something about the University of Michigan seeming like 'a fun place to go to school.' I just know it's the influence of those cool kids he's been slumming around with."
The Sprouses' sense of alarm grew when Adam, who almost exclusively wore T-shirts and slacks, began taking a greater interest in his appearance.
"The last time we went shopping, he asked for designer jeans," Marcia said. "When I got upset, he said all the kids at school wore designer jeans and that it wasn't a big deal. Well, peer pressure may not be a big deal to him, but it is to me. He won't even let me cut his hair because I 'do it dorky.' The next thing you know, he's going to be cutting out of those advanced-calculus classes he's been taking at the community college and joining a fraternity."
"It seems like only yesterday, our little Adam would stay in his room all day reading comic books and playing with his computer," Marcia continued. "Now, he'll try almost anything. Where did we go wrong?"
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Remember, the wavelength of energy changes as the medium changes. 400MHz inside a silicon device is probably somewhere around 1.5GHz. M$ products will work just fine, IMHO.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
I could really take advantage of the Integrated Wi-Fi, seeing how I just equiped both my home and office for it. Integrated Wi-Fi inso a PDA changes drastically the posibilities of usage for such a device. Wireless is what I believe will change PDA's from being an expensive rolodex and note pad into a crucial business device.
Too bad it's a PocketPC. The Sharp PDA looks interesting though, even though the Wi-Fi option is an aftermarket card.
-Pete
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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.
sounds like these things have loads of horsepower; i'm sure some pretty amazing games can (and will) be played on them.
:)
games are pretty popular on PDAs, and this begs the question... why don't they make the controls better-suited to gaming?
you know games are one of the reasons people use to justify the purchase of these things. nobody is buying one solely to game, of course, but why else do you need a 400mhz cpu in your PDA?
just like the PC market, games are one of the driving forces behind ever more-powerful hardware, even if people don't always admit it/realize it.
the thing that sucks about gaming on these machines, though, are the controls! they're awful, and your hands get cramped up. why don't they build one with a slightly bigger control pad? also, they should move its location from the center, over to the left, to resemble a more traditional gameboy setup. i can guarantee the company to do this first will see a nice return on their tiny investment.
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Another fellow /.er made a funny comment about how long before we see linux on it... well, Are there plans for that? Or, in other words, is it possible? I see the windows logo and my eyes hurt :(
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The possibility of making Beowulf cluster certianly should be raised, but the Slashdot Collective is probably more worried about it being driven by the Devil's software, so it seemed like the logical choice.
Fathammer optimizes X-Forge mobile game engine for intel® strongarm* and intel® xscale(TM) microarchitecture
emphasis mine
Some part-time students may convert to full-time status to continue their education but at a heavy price. Canadian students pay nearly $2 Canadian for every $1 in American funds.
That there is a conversion rate difference does not impact financial burden. For example, Japanese currency is around 150 (?) yen per dollar, but they find US colleges inexpensive.
Yes, Canada dollars may have a 2 to 1 ratio to US dollars, but they earn more dollars to balance for it. The best way to determine the real impact of different currencies is a purchasing parity index. A popular one is the the Big Mac index. Read more here.
I see the winders bitmap on it. Not interested.
Unless I can load Linux on it... no go...
Who is the retard that modded this? Whoever it is should be perma-banned from the priviledge.
. Video on these things are very, very slow. 100x slower and more than what you may have now.
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The Cassiopeia E200's cradle has both a USB client connector (for syncing) and a USB host connector. You can also buy a bottom lip for the Casio and that has the USB host connector, so you could drive a tree of USB devices while mobile. I saw a picture of it in a magazine review. I believe USB current out from the lip device is limited to 100mA (the USB specification allows current limitiations of 100mA to 500mA).
I do not know if the NEC MobilePro P300's USB host mode requires it to be plugged into its cradle.
It's nice to see Slashdot covering the PDA arena besides Palm and Zarus. The Pocket PC is HP, Toshiba, Compaq, Audivox, HTC and more...not just Microsoft.
from PDAlive.com:
"Rumors of performance issues of the Microsoft Pocket PC 2002 platform on XScale processor which was being floated around a few months seemed to be solved with the new devices performing beyond the initial level which was similar to that of the older StrongArm."
The older Strongarm was 209Mhz vs Xscale at 400Mhz, and after some tweaking Xscale now performs better. Um, why should I be excited about this? It appears to be a step backward. The PPC2002 was released last fall only supporting StrongArm processors - maybe it was optimized for them and now must be reoptimized (reengineered) ?
Enlightenment welcomed.
I just TOOK A SHIT on the floor. I think I'm turning into THE WIPO TROLL. I have this uncontrollable urge to SHIT IN STRANGE PLACES and sometimes PLAY WITH IT afterward. Yesterday I stripped naked and SLATHERED MYSELF IN MY OWN SHIT before I realized what I was doing.
Someone help me.
STOP ME BEFORE I POST AGAIN!
Alright, this is more like it.
I think I'm starting to get it which isn't too bad since I disdained portables till I got this gig with the Pocket PC company.
The first IpaQ link I saw was obviously outdated, but handhelds.org is the scoop and a painfully obvious URL to boot. Thanks for clearing that up.
I wasn't too far off though because I notice that they are suggesting you're going to want a microdrive to take advantage of all the Linux Arm goodness out there and this current set of flash memory powered devices is going to be lacking in that respect. Add that with the knowledge that WiFi still has some issues that should be addressed real soon but not quite yet and the verdict reads: not ready for prime time --yet.
Besides, I think the OQO notion of being able to plug into an external monitor or KVM is excellent. Let's move production on those babies to China and drop the knob on the price selector. Or droolsville, how about 2X512Meg Compact Flash and dump the microdrive. Too pricey for now, but next year? Who knows.
Most interestingly, the e740 will be available in three different trims: one with Integrated Wi-Fi, the other with Bluetooth and one with neither.
:))
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-- james
Apparently, PDA LIVE is not dead, they just shifted to a new server and dns takes time to propagate I suppose :)
Great, they are quite on the ball with news I suppose slashdotted 4 times during the past month...
This information and photo are old news, it was covered on pdabuzz and other sites in early May. Here is the link http://forums.pdabuzz.net/showthread.php?s=&thread id=37865.