One school system just outside Richmond, Virginia has issued iBooks to all of high school and next years middle school students...This thing could make a nice, and cheaper alternative for other school systems to provide students with technology to teach in the class room, replacing TI graphing calculators, expensive out of date school computer labs, and all for $300-400 a piece. Put in a modem and let each school system give free dialup internet access to kids in classes and you've just opened the doors of the email and text messaging into the homes of every family home in America. True, no big color sreen, no MS Word, no printer included, but hey it's cheap! Needs a handle and screen cover though.(and as it says on the website for the Dana, there are 10,000 Palm OS applications...that's way more than my eMate's Newton OS Softare!)
Slashdot Mirror
The Newton eMate can do this already!
l
http://www.deleet.de/ray/newton/802.11b-FAQ.htm
One school system just outside Richmond, Virginia has issued iBooks to all of high school and next years middle school students...This thing could make a nice, and cheaper alternative for other school systems to provide students with technology to teach in the class room, replacing TI graphing calculators, expensive out of date school computer labs, and all for $300-400 a piece. Put in a modem and let each school system give free dialup internet access to kids in classes and you've just opened the doors of the email and text messaging into the homes of every family home in America. True, no big color sreen, no MS Word, no printer included, but hey it's cheap! Needs a handle and screen cover though.(and as it says on the website for the Dana, there are 10,000 Palm OS applications...that's way more than my eMate's Newton OS Softare!)