The only advantage of the new 700 model seems to be that the screen is bigger, but the price is size and weight that make it significantly less appropriate to also use as an mp3 audio device.
MessageEase a soft keyboard for PDAs (think Fitaly but better) is designed also to be a full alphanumeric cell-phone keyboard, using the normal 12 buttons. It's well worth a look. Be sure to check out the white paper, which describes the philosophy and compares it with other input methods. Supposedly you can get 30WPM input speeds.
There is also a Yahoo user group with good, fast support from the engineer who created this.
-Karl (not associated with company or product except as a user who was impressed with the white paper and thought this was better than anything else currently out there for input to small devices)
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Why would anyone want this new model instead of the existing Archos AV4100:t ml o mments/archos_av4100_portable_video_recorder_playe r_announced/
http://www.archos.com/products/prw_500697_specs.h
which also has 100GB, is similarly priced, also records from TV, is smaller, weighs less, and has better resolution:
"DVD playback is full DVD resolution up to 704x480; recording is standard TV resolution, up to 512x384 (SVCD)." according to:
http://www.photographyblog.com/index.php/weblog/c
The only advantage of the new 700 model seems to be that the screen is bigger, but the price is size and weight that make it significantly less appropriate to also use as an mp3 audio device.
MessageEase a soft keyboard for PDAs (think Fitaly but better) is designed also to be a full alphanumeric cell-phone keyboard, using the normal 12 buttons. It's well worth a look. Be sure to check out the white paper, which describes the philosophy and compares it with other input methods. Supposedly you can get 30WPM input speeds.
There is also a Yahoo user group with good, fast support from the engineer who created this.
-Karl (not associated with company or product except as a user who was impressed with the white paper and thought this was better than anything else currently out there for input to small devices)
What if we install onto a Segway the foot-powered step-recharger, featured earlier today (to recharge laptops)?
Now it'll have unlimited range. I wonder how far 5min of brisk pumping gets you?
-Karl