First: ADSL, SDSL and T1 are related. T1 used to be called HDSL (1948). Check the rear site of that T1 router.
Second: ADSL and SDSL in essence have nothing to do with overbooking or internet. It's what the industry has made of it. They wanted to produce a standard el cheapo product voor the masses. Based on the widely available twisted pair, they made a standard, home-to-internet (non-point-to-point) xDSL flavor with overbooking.
Third: ADSL and SDSL come in flavors. From 1/500 overbooked to 1/1 overbooking. From a 'we will fix it within 5 workdays or will try to' to 'fixed within 2 hours' SLA's. Just show 'm the money.
Fourth: DSL comes with guaranteed bandwith if you have the right provider that can service you with the right QoS. Check the ATM QoS for DSL: UBR and UBR+ suck, VBR-NRT is better, while VBR-RT is very nice and CBR is the best available. I mean: on a 1/4 1Mb SDSL connection with VBR-RT quality, you have 1/4th guaranteed, no matter how busy the hinterland is. That's in the QoS standard.
So, in short, a 2.3Mb SDSL connection with Gold (24x7, 2 hours) fixing guarantee and CBR quality is basically a good old T1 connection. And yes: it will cost you, dearly:)
Nowadays I record certain TV show (talkshows, documentaries) to watch 'm on the go using my Sony PSP and PSPware. Quite convenient, since I normally don't make time to watch tv. I think there is real potential in that field for a decent mobile videoplayer.
We use UMTS and GPRS in a private networking environment, which means: no ipsec, no ssl, no encryption. Connection with internet is made through our internetpeering account on AMS-IX. I guess regarding that type of solution is the fastest you can get: no overhead and 100% controle over every bit of data sent. It's not an expensive solution (flatfee Euro 75,- an month) and it integrates DSL, fiber, ISDN and GPRS/UMTS of all our branches, mobile workers and home workers.
On performance: latency on UMTS is pretty low (around 150ms), which makes for acceptable Skype quality. UMTS covarage in Holland is about 70%. In other situations you need GPRS, which is okay since you don't have the 25-40% overhead you normally get because of encryption. We don't have any jitter.
Since we have a private networking environment, we do use our own business rules for firewalling, meaning we also use Ichat AV over UMTS: working okay!:)
We have people in China and Israel using a PC Card in their Mac to work through private GPRS on our servers here in Holland.
Yeah, that is why I bought a P900 8 months ago: small and versatile. The Zire 72 was my second choice, because it was too big for me. Especially considering the fact that I also needed a phone (and probably a stowaway keyboard).
I'm still thinking about upgrading to the P910... but it looks like the phone still misses out on the memorystick IO part. Looks like you can't use WiFi cards in it. Do like the Nokia 9300 and 9500 though, but still have to give it a real testdrive. The 9500 is a little big.
I think Symbian (Nokia series 60) has more modern software available compared to Palm, especially if you consider internet being important. Palm lacks a decent browser and real mail only comes as a third party tool and that means no integration of SMS and MMS. With Symbian you have one 'communications' suite that is pretty okay.
There are tons of software available for Palm, but most of it is showing its age. That's too bad, because I've always loved the OS and Graffiti. Still use my Tungsten T in the car with GPS and roadmaps... for old times sake:)
But the P900 basically has replaced my notebook when going out for short trips (2 days). Being a writer that's fairly easy off course, since all I need is a decent browser, mailclient and msg/chat functionality. Not to mention some editor. The P900 does a good job on that and even allows me to take a decent picture, even at bad light conditions (you do need a steady hand, or some place to put the phone on).
And Pocket Windows? Not in a 1000 years and never on something as important as a phone. Imagine you need to dial 112 (of 911) and the screen shows up saying that you need to reboot because of an 'illegal function'..... yeah, like opening your phone application while working on your schedule, hahaha.
That's what you get for using an OS that is not longer being supported by those nitwits from RedMond. Their message is clear: please upgrade to XP home edition.
I agree on the 20GB part, but do like the red wheel though. Don't like the white earplugs and think it is too bad they don't include the new album, as was rumoured before.
One other thing... in contrary to those three hours on the 9500, I did have 4 weeks to really test the P900. And - also important - the 9500 was just tested on the application intended (and playing maybe 45 minutes with email and browser), while the P900 was to be used in a situation with lots of email, browsing and IM. That also happen to be the key features that I myself need a lot. Connectivity for me is more important than carrying around documents, or being able to create and edit WORD and PPT files with my mobile phone. What I mean to say: I acknowledge that I didn't give the 9500 all the time it deserved (enough to dislike the size though), but that wasn't because I didn't want to try it longer or didn't love the gadget level of it. The reason I only spent three hours on it, was because some guy-wearing-a-tie wanted it back, because he 'needed it for some other customer'... I was certainly not happy with that and - if given the option - would automatically have traded sleep over more testing.
We have had an early 9500 for a testdrive regarding applications we produce for a mobile provider. I played on it for 3 hours or so. Simply not my tool. It is a very nice tool with all the wireless features. It even supports EDGE if I'm quite correct. However, I think it is too big to carry it around. In that aspect, the size of the 9300 indeed would appear to be much better. Haven't seen that one come in the house yet.
I don't know why I can't get used to the Nokia 9000 series. I mean, in the past for over three years I worked on an Atari portfolio. Compared to that wobbly keyboard, the 9100 (and up) keyboards indeed are a breeze. But I prefer a pen-on-a-screen or a fullsize (foldable) keyboard. Then again, I don't do SSH... so maybe that's it:)
Btw, I also got the P900 as a test object. After I had handed it in, I went back to my Palm and I kept missing things. Very strange sensation, especially given the fact that I 've had a Palm for maybe 8 years or os. The P900 was the first 'gadget' after the Palm V, that really got me hooked. I mean, I have had some blackberries and some really nifty phones, but the P900 somehow made a lasting impression.
Ah, that is interesting. Didn't know that, but can imagine the Sprint Concerns, given the fact that Yahoo Groups (ahum) offers all kinds of needful software to help P900 users make ultimate use of the British Telecom wireless BT network in the UK.... Vodafone was pretty upset when the learned that they were sponsoring nice P900 handsets (through subscription) while most users made calls through 'alternative' channels available. British Telecom fixed the hack within the week or so.
The 9500 is much too large for me. And the keyboard still is no good. I mean, from an usibility point of view, I think I even prefer the TREO keyboard over the 9500, since the formfactor of the TREO is better than that of the 9500. You have to put down the 9500 to make good use of the keyboard. If there is the luxury of puting the thing down, I prefer the BlueTooth keyboard for the P900 over the extra size thumbboard of the 9500.
True, in the US the TREO 600 is marketleader, but face it: other phonecompanies really haven't put much effort in the 'split standard' us market. Real smartphones (like the P900 and the P910) are only now coming to the US in huge quantities. In the rest of the world, TREO is non-existent and to my frustratation, the are even outsold by the all those windows smartphones....
About the point of the 600 you mention:
1) exportable extende call log (want to see who you called on 6/1/2004? you can, mine goes all the way back to 5/20/2004, and each with length of call, etc);
The P900 has that too. You have a major call history. If you add an 'advanced phone manager', you have very advanced features regarding to whitelisting, blacklisting, etc. I couldn't find it for my TREO600.
The P900 standards comes with support for WAV, MP3's as ringtones and you can make userlists. Every list (or every user) can have his own MP3 (complete songs, if you want it), every MSG (SMS, MMS) can have it's own song, every emailaccount can have it's own song... the TREO is no macht here.
2) Multiple #s per name, phonebook size limited only to memory
Same on the P900.. phonebooksize limited to memory (and extendeble with Memory Stick Duo's), very extended addresscards per entry. I mean: I use Isync (MAC) to synchronise with the standard (very flexible) addressbook of my MAC. Some of my contacts have 7 phonenumbers... no problem. Have never been able to get that right in my Palm. Not even using their own software.
And Symbian has flash memory. So, if you run out of juice, you don't loose any information at all. Never.
3)SMS (with conversation grouping ability so you have better idea of who you are talking with)
Nothing special really. Look at the standard Message facilities of the P900. It supports multiple POP accounts (currenly I read 12 or so), advanced SMS & MMS features (although I wonder who will use the MMS).
4) it fits in my jeans pocket
The 600 looks okay, but the Candybar formfactor is better. That's why Blackberry just released a candybar. It has an external antenna... maybe needed in the US, but not necessary in Europa and the rest of the world.
5) I get around 90-110kilobit/sec transfer rate, probably the fastest you can get next to the newest GSM EDGE phones.
Yeah, but not for a day. Use it for three hours and your battery is dead. The P900 is justs as fast, but can hold out for 2 days very intense GPRS use or 4 days average use (checkin mail, chatting).
6) HTML compliant web browser that displays graphics, javascript
Hahaha, the standard TREO 600 browser is just a laugh. Not even better than the standaard Symbian P900 browser. But who cares on Symbian for the standard browser. We have Opera.
7) Palm software base.. no discussion there
See, see that's what I thought. I have owned a Palm since the '90's and was one of the first in Holland to have 'm and I have owned the complete range (till T1). Even got a special edition of the V from Palm, because I sold a big bunch of it to a customer. Since the Atari Portfolio (early 90's) I rely on PDA's... so after Newton came Palm. Anyway, I have tons of software for my Palms, both freeware as paid stuff. When I switched to Symbian, I really wondered about how to go without all that software.
But for Symbian there already is an awfull lot of software available. Not as much right now as for Palm, but they are picking up. And all major Palm aplications are available for Symbian (including Bugme, Worms and Quickoffice).
And - although not for me - they have awesome games on Symbian. Really nice, full screen games for which you just put your handheld in an landscape mode to have a small game console. Like I said, not for me, but a lot of people love it.
8) mp3 player with SD for storage
The media department is much better developped on Symbian. Palm doesn't even come close. I mean, the P900 has a vid
I've always loved Palm, but I see dark clouds ahead. The company always produced lovely and functional PDA's but totally missed out on the smartphone thing. Handspring got it right with the (still) brilliant 270/300... and they really had gold in their hands. They were at least one year ahead of the pack. Unfortunately they lacked money to bring it in great numbers to the GSM markets...
When Palm bought Handspring, the TREO 600 was just released. And you could tell that Handspring had rushed the smartphone to the market in order to survive. The 600 was simply not completely finished. It lacked BlueTooth and suffers from all kinds of small annoying things. Then there is the battery life.... when you use you TREO for calling you might make it through one day, but use GPRS to browse or for email. I mean: it simply doesn't last a day at all.
But then Palm bought Handspring and I really hoped they would iron out the not-so-great stuff and release a 610 or so as a quick makeover. But they choose to upgrade their PDA-series 5 times or so, even releasing $89 Zire PDA's and let the TREO 600 battle it out against the smartphones of real phonemakers. Not a very wise thing to do. Especially not when you take into effect that they also missed the RoutePlanner market in Europe. I mean, the lousy PocketPC (my opinion) took a huge bite out of the market, because they offered those carkit solutions with route planners. Palm lagged by 18 months or so... it has cost them dearly.
SonyEricsson definately did a better job. They at first released the also not-so-great P800 and followed that one by the much better P900 and now, when Palm just announced that the releasedate of the TREO 650 is being pushed back from October to January, SonyERcisson is releasing the P910...
For me for the time being the Palm era is over. My TREO 270 died a month ago (but I still love it) and I only use my Tungsten T (also a very good device) as a route planner... for daily operations I rely on the Symbian powered P900. The OS is still not as userfriendly as that of the Palm, but the P900 at least gives me 4 days on a battery while really using my phone with camera and GPRS (email, chat, browsing), or my phone as wireless modem for my powerbook.
You know, this G(g)uy is sooo right. If the product of record companies really was music, they would re-release all their old music in some kind of digital format so that it would be available for purchasable download. But they haven't... instead they fight over DRM to lock copies of digital music down to one device. Indeed a war about medium.
I too bought an awful lot of music on Vinyl. A lot of this music I've already replaced by versions on tapes and CD rom. However, a lot of my old music is simply not obtainable anymore and therefore I have to play my vinyl records till the end. And since dead means the end of a song in my collection, I need to have replacements. And I'm willing to pay for those. But as there is no shop where you can buy that music, not even online, right now the only tools available are Limewire and Soulseek and hope that someone converted the Vinyl edition to mp3 or something.
Record companies should focus on music instead of media.
That's a familiar statement. Five years ago, I had the same arguement with our lead architect. It was about using Macs in the Salesdepartment. He said: that is no option, because those guys need a platform that demonstrates our software in the environment customers recognize. On behalf of his advice I sticked to PC's.
One year ago I eventually decided to switch Sales to Powerbooks with Mac OS X no matter what he thought or wanted. It was cheaper (less maintanance), worked better on batteries (a whole day!) and looked sexy.
No customer has asked questions about the platform. The just take it for granted that if it works on a Mac, it will most certainly will work on a Pc.
As a matter of fact, the only questions we get are about the 'effects' used in Keynote: Which Powerpoint effect is this?
I won't say that it is possible to switch everything, but in our case it certainly worked: Less maintanance and improved sales (probably because of those free ipods we hand out, hahahaha).
a simple Star Trek game on internet (or how it was called then), in the end of the 80's, early 90's? I remember playing such a game in the computerrooms at uni, with quite a group of people worldwide. Wasn't it called something like Net Trek or so??
I mean, I'm absolutely no fan of Star Trek (I prefer war over logic, you know the type... America has one similar in the Whitehouse), but that game, no matter how simple, absolutely beat everything I had on my Atari ST (well, maybe except for Midi Maze, with 16 players). It offered enough to ruin my first and second semester, maybe even my third.
After that I discovered the rest of Infocom (I had already played Zork I and II) and that basically got me out of uni, ahum.
Oh, is that you mom? Eh... just kidding, it were those papers and essays... and the tests, certainly the tests and of course those two... ju ju... eh... jobs...
You sound as one of those 'excellent' software engineers that advice a complete reinstall of a workstation when that station does something for which your MS knowledgebase doesn't supply you with an answer within 10 minutes. You are one of those guys always carrying those CD Packs, because you never know when you need to reinstall.
In other words: you have no clue on how software and hardware interact and you probably don't even know that it is possible to fix a problem without reinstalling your OS and in many cases even without rebooting.
/. is way above your league. Please go back to your 'tune your OS in 24 easy steps' beginners guide.
The Dutch guy who just went up with the Russians once said in an interview: Like the USA, at ESA we are very thorough on our equipment and we cherrish it. If it is not necessary, you are not even allowed to point at a rocket, let alone touch it. When I went to Russia for my first Russian training, I saw engineers hammering away at their rockets and boosters. They were sitting on the stuff working on it with wrenches and other heavy tools... it was not like anything I every experienced with ESA or NASA at all. It scared the shit out of me.
Maybe the Russians just do 'Space' the old fashioned/. way: with a hammer and duck tape.... who knows? Fact is that they have been up there longer than anyone.
Sorry, Netscape 6 must have given me the wrong impression then regarding Java. I remember it as slow and one HUGE download. For me, it were those ISDN days with a brand new computer....
And yes, I admit I was surprised finding such a heavy platform (again: my personal perception) running on such small hardware.
I must also admit that I'm very disassapointed at it, because running a high performance Java app, sucks power more quickly from my battery then running full screen video (eg Shrek 2). So it might run on small platforms, but quite top notch is something else.
I never thought of Java as something worth following, because it was my personal experiece that:
- it is slow
- files are biiiiiig
I mean, running some Java app makes the fan of my Powerbook spinning. Face it, only Photoshop and Imovie do that to me...
But in Europe Java is really strong in the mobile phone environment. I have this SE 900 and it always draws lots of attention and things that strike me most are remarks of non-technical people, like the 16 (or something) year old girl at some fast food joint: "Does it have Java?" Even my sister (30, knows shit about computers) has it on her wishlist: a Java enabled mobile phone...
The fact alone that it is seen as some 'special' thing... Sun (or Nokia, or whoever) has done a great job there.
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First: ADSL, SDSL and T1 are related. T1 used to be called HDSL (1948). Check the rear site of that T1 router.
:)
Second: ADSL and SDSL in essence have nothing to do with overbooking or internet. It's what the industry has made of it. They wanted to produce a standard el cheapo product voor the masses. Based on the widely available twisted pair, they made a standard, home-to-internet (non-point-to-point) xDSL flavor with overbooking.
Third: ADSL and SDSL come in flavors. From 1/500 overbooked to 1/1 overbooking. From a 'we will fix it within 5 workdays or will try to' to 'fixed within 2 hours' SLA's. Just show 'm the money.
Fourth: DSL comes with guaranteed bandwith if you have the right provider that can service you with the right QoS. Check the ATM QoS for DSL: UBR and UBR+ suck, VBR-NRT is better, while VBR-RT is very nice and CBR is the best available. I mean: on a 1/4 1Mb SDSL connection with VBR-RT quality, you have 1/4th guaranteed, no matter how busy the hinterland is. That's in the QoS standard.
So, in short, a 2.3Mb SDSL connection with Gold (24x7, 2 hours) fixing guarantee and CBR quality is basically a good old T1 connection. And yes: it will cost you, dearly
Nowadays I record certain TV show (talkshows, documentaries) to watch 'm on the go using my Sony PSP and PSPware. Quite convenient, since I normally don't make time to watch tv. I think there is real potential in that field for a decent mobile videoplayer.
Apple switched to Intel ...
... or something.
Debian finally releases Sarge.
It would have been a perfect day if Duke Nukem' Forever was also launched today
We use UMTS and GPRS in a private networking environment, which means: no ipsec, no ssl, no encryption. Connection with internet is made through our internetpeering account on AMS-IX. I guess regarding that type of solution is the fastest you can get: no overhead and 100% controle over every bit of data sent. It's not an expensive solution (flatfee Euro 75,- an month) and it integrates DSL, fiber, ISDN and GPRS/UMTS of all our branches, mobile workers and home workers. On performance: latency on UMTS is pretty low (around 150ms), which makes for acceptable Skype quality. UMTS covarage in Holland is about 70%. In other situations you need GPRS, which is okay since you don't have the 25-40% overhead you normally get because of encryption. We don't have any jitter. Since we have a private networking environment, we do use our own business rules for firewalling, meaning we also use Ichat AV over UMTS: working okay! :)
We have people in China and Israel using a PC Card in their Mac to work through private GPRS on our servers here in Holland.
Yeah, that is why I bought a P900 8 months ago: small and versatile. The Zire 72 was my second choice, because it was too big for me. Especially considering the fact that I also needed a phone (and probably a stowaway keyboard).
... but it looks like the phone still misses out on the memorystick IO part. Looks like you can't use WiFi cards in it. Do like the Nokia 9300 and 9500 though, but still have to give it a real testdrive. The 9500 is a little big.
... for old times sake :)
I'm still thinking about upgrading to the P910
I think Symbian (Nokia series 60) has more modern software available compared to Palm, especially if you consider internet being important. Palm lacks a decent browser and real mail only comes as a third party tool and that means no integration of SMS and MMS. With Symbian you have one 'communications' suite that is pretty okay.
There are tons of software available for Palm, but most of it is showing its age. That's too bad, because I've always loved the OS and Graffiti. Still use my Tungsten T in the car with GPS and roadmaps
But the P900 basically has replaced my notebook when going out for short trips (2 days). Being a writer that's fairly easy off course, since all I need is a decent browser, mailclient and msg/chat functionality. Not to mention some editor. The P900 does a good job on that and even allows me to take a decent picture, even at bad light conditions (you do need a steady hand, or some place to put the phone on).
And Pocket Windows? Not in a 1000 years and never on something as important as a phone. Imagine you need to dial 112 (of 911) and the screen shows up saying that you need to reboot because of an 'illegal function'..... yeah, like opening your phone application while working on your schedule, hahaha.
Yeah, thought so too. Than I got a SonyEricsson P900 ... a real browser, a real emailclient, modern software and a more stable os. More phone than PDA.
Never thought that I would drop Palm and switch to something else. But for me right now it is Symbian. More balanced devices and it fits in my pocket.
If Bush wins, we will withdraw most of our investments from the US and close down two small business units.
That's what you get for using an OS that is not longer being supported by those nitwits from RedMond. Their message is clear: please upgrade to XP home edition.
I agree on the 20GB part, but do like the red wheel though. Don't like the white earplugs and think it is too bad they don't include the new album, as was rumoured before.
It's beautiful, it made my day and I can order it from Holland.
One other thing ... in contrary to those three hours on the 9500, I did have 4 weeks to really test the P900. And - also important - the 9500 was just tested on the application intended (and playing maybe 45 minutes with email and browser), while the P900 was to be used in a situation with lots of email, browsing and IM. That also happen to be the key features that I myself need a lot. Connectivity for me is more important than carrying around documents, or being able to create and edit WORD and PPT files with my mobile phone. What I mean to say: I acknowledge that I didn't give the 9500 all the time it deserved (enough to dislike the size though), but that wasn't because I didn't want to try it longer or didn't love the gadget level of it. The reason I only spent three hours on it, was because some guy-wearing-a-tie wanted it back, because he 'needed it for some other customer' ... I was certainly not happy with that and - if given the option - would automatically have traded sleep over more testing.
We have had an early 9500 for a testdrive regarding applications we produce for a mobile provider. I played on it for 3 hours or so. Simply not my tool. It is a very nice tool with all the wireless features. It even supports EDGE if I'm quite correct. However, I think it is too big to carry it around. In that aspect, the size of the 9300 indeed would appear to be much better. Haven't seen that one come in the house yet.
... so maybe that's it :)
I don't know why I can't get used to the Nokia 9000 series. I mean, in the past for over three years I worked on an Atari portfolio. Compared to that wobbly keyboard, the 9100 (and up) keyboards indeed are a breeze. But I prefer a pen-on-a-screen or a fullsize (foldable) keyboard. Then again, I don't do SSH
Btw, I also got the P900 as a test object. After I had handed it in, I went back to my Palm and I kept missing things. Very strange sensation, especially given the fact that I 've had a Palm for maybe 8 years or os. The P900 was the first 'gadget' after the Palm V, that really got me hooked. I mean, I have had some blackberries and some really nifty phones, but the P900 somehow made a lasting impression.
Ah, that is interesting. Didn't know that, but can imagine the Sprint Concerns, given the fact that Yahoo Groups (ahum) offers all kinds of needful software to help P900 users make ultimate use of the British Telecom wireless BT network in the UK.... Vodafone was pretty upset when the learned that they were sponsoring nice P900 handsets (through subscription) while most users made calls through 'alternative' channels available. British Telecom fixed the hack within the week or so.
The 9500 is much too large for me. And the keyboard still is no good. I mean, from an usibility point of view, I think I even prefer the TREO keyboard over the 9500, since the formfactor of the TREO is better than that of the 9500. You have to put down the 9500 to make good use of the keyboard. If there is the luxury of puting the thing down, I prefer the BlueTooth keyboard for the P900 over the extra size thumbboard of the 9500.
True, in the US the TREO 600 is marketleader, but face it: other phonecompanies really haven't put much effort in the 'split standard' us market. Real smartphones (like the P900 and the P910) are only now coming to the US in huge quantities. In the rest of the world, TREO is non-existent and to my frustratation, the are even outsold by the all those windows smartphones ....
... the TREO is no macht here.
.. phonebooksize limited to memory (and extendeble with Memory Stick Duo's), very extended addresscards per entry. I mean: I use Isync (MAC) to synchronise with the standard (very flexible) addressbook of my MAC. Some of my contacts have 7 phonenumbers... no problem. Have never been able to get that right in my Palm. Not even using their own software.
... so after Newton came Palm.
About the point of the 600 you mention:
1) exportable extende call log (want to see who you called on 6/1/2004? you can, mine goes all the way back to 5/20/2004, and each with length of call, etc); The P900 has that too. You have a major call history. If you add an 'advanced phone manager', you have very advanced features regarding to whitelisting, blacklisting, etc. I couldn't find it for my TREO600.
The P900 standards comes with support for WAV, MP3's as ringtones and you can make userlists. Every list (or every user) can have his own MP3 (complete songs, if you want it), every MSG (SMS, MMS) can have it's own song, every emailaccount can have it's own song
2) Multiple #s per name, phonebook size limited only to memory Same on the P900
And Symbian has flash memory. So, if you run out of juice, you don't loose any information at all. Never.
3)SMS (with conversation grouping ability so you have better idea of who you are talking with) Nothing special really. Look at the standard Message facilities of the P900. It supports multiple POP accounts (currenly I read 12 or so), advanced SMS & MMS features (although I wonder who will use the MMS).
4) it fits in my jeans pocket The 600 looks okay, but the Candybar formfactor is better. That's why Blackberry just released a candybar. It has an external antenna... maybe needed in the US, but not necessary in Europa and the rest of the world.
5) I get around 90-110kilobit/sec transfer rate, probably the fastest you can get next to the newest GSM EDGE phones. Yeah, but not for a day. Use it for three hours and your battery is dead. The P900 is justs as fast, but can hold out for 2 days very intense GPRS use or 4 days average use (checkin mail, chatting).
6) HTML compliant web browser that displays graphics, javascript Hahaha, the standard TREO 600 browser is just a laugh. Not even better than the standaard Symbian P900 browser. But who cares on Symbian for the standard browser. We have Opera.
7) Palm software base.. no discussion there See, see that's what I thought. I have owned a Palm since the '90's and was one of the first in Holland to have 'm and I have owned the complete range (till T1). Even got a special edition of the V from Palm, because I sold a big bunch of it to a customer.
Since the Atari Portfolio (early 90's) I rely on PDA's
Anyway, I have tons of software for my Palms, both freeware as paid stuff. When I switched to Symbian, I really wondered about how to go without all that software.
But for Symbian there already is an awfull lot of software available. Not as much right now as for Palm, but they are picking up. And all major Palm aplications are available for Symbian (including Bugme, Worms and Quickoffice).
And - although not for me - they have awesome games on Symbian. Really nice, full screen games for which you just put your handheld in an landscape mode to have a small game console. Like I said, not for me, but a lot of people love it.
8) mp3 player with SD for storage The media department is much better developped on Symbian. Palm doesn't even come close. I mean, the P900 has a vid
I've always loved Palm, but I see dark clouds ahead. The company always produced lovely and functional PDA's but totally missed out on the smartphone thing. Handspring got it right with the (still) brilliant 270/300 ... and they really had gold in their hands. They were at least one year ahead of the pack. Unfortunately they lacked money to bring it in great numbers to the GSM markets ...
.... when you use you TREO for calling you might make it through one day, but use GPRS to browse or for email. I mean: it simply doesn't last a day at all.
...
... for daily operations I rely on the Symbian powered P900. The OS is still not as userfriendly as that of the Palm, but the P900 at least gives me 4 days on a battery while really using my phone with camera and GPRS (email, chat, browsing), or my phone as wireless modem for my powerbook.
When Palm bought Handspring, the TREO 600 was just released. And you could tell that Handspring had rushed the smartphone to the market in order to survive. The 600 was simply not completely finished. It lacked BlueTooth and suffers from all kinds of small annoying things. Then there is the battery life
But then Palm bought Handspring and I really hoped they would iron out the not-so-great stuff and release a 610 or so as a quick makeover. But they choose to upgrade their PDA-series 5 times or so, even releasing $89 Zire PDA's and let the TREO 600 battle it out against the smartphones of real phonemakers. Not a very wise thing to do. Especially not when you take into effect that they also missed the RoutePlanner market in Europe. I mean, the lousy PocketPC (my opinion) took a huge bite out of the market, because they offered those carkit solutions with route planners. Palm lagged by 18 months or so... it has cost them dearly.
SonyEricsson definately did a better job. They at first released the also not-so-great P800 and followed that one by the much better P900 and now, when Palm just announced that the releasedate of the TREO 650 is being pushed back from October to January, SonyERcisson is releasing the P910
For me for the time being the Palm era is over. My TREO 270 died a month ago (but I still love it) and I only use my Tungsten T (also a very good device) as a route planner
You know, this G(g)uy is sooo right. If the product of record companies really was music, they would re-release all their old music in some kind of digital format so that it would be available for purchasable download. But they haven't ... instead they fight over DRM to lock copies of digital music down to one device. Indeed a war about medium.
I too bought an awful lot of music on Vinyl. A lot of this music I've already replaced by versions on tapes and CD rom. However, a lot of my old music is simply not obtainable anymore and therefore I have to play my vinyl records till the end. And since dead means the end of a song in my collection, I need to have replacements. And I'm willing to pay for those. But as there is no shop where you can buy that music, not even online, right now the only tools available are Limewire and Soulseek and hope that someone converted the Vinyl edition to mp3 or something.
Record companies should focus on music instead of media.
That's a familiar statement. Five years ago, I had the same arguement with our lead architect. It was about using Macs in the Salesdepartment. He said: that is no option, because those guys need a platform that demonstrates our software in the environment customers recognize. On behalf of his advice I sticked to PC's. One year ago I eventually decided to switch Sales to Powerbooks with Mac OS X no matter what he thought or wanted. It was cheaper (less maintanance), worked better on batteries (a whole day!) and looked sexy. No customer has asked questions about the platform. The just take it for granted that if it works on a Mac, it will most certainly will work on a Pc. As a matter of fact, the only questions we get are about the 'effects' used in Keynote: Which Powerpoint effect is this? I won't say that it is possible to switch everything, but in our case it certainly worked: Less maintanance and improved sales (probably because of those free ipods we hand out, hahahaha).
We replaced our intel boxes by AMD Opteron's and Apple G4's ... so intel will probably see us as another dead customer. So THEIR net indeed is dying.
a simple Star Trek game on internet (or how it was called then), in the end of the 80's, early 90's? I remember playing such a game in the computerrooms at uni, with quite a group of people worldwide. Wasn't it called something like Net Trek or so??
... just kidding, it were those papers and essays ... and the tests, certainly the tests and of course those two ... ju ju ... eh ... jobs...
I mean, I'm absolutely no fan of Star Trek (I prefer war over logic, you know the type... America has one similar in the Whitehouse), but that game, no matter how simple, absolutely beat everything I had on my Atari ST (well, maybe except for Midi Maze, with 16 players). It offered enough to ruin my first and second semester, maybe even my third.
After that I discovered the rest of Infocom (I had already played Zork I and II) and that basically got me out of uni, ahum.
Oh, is that you mom? Eh
You sound as one of those 'excellent' software engineers that advice a complete reinstall of a workstation when that station does something for which your MS knowledgebase doesn't supply you with an answer within 10 minutes. You are one of those guys always carrying those CD Packs, because you never know when you need to reinstall.
/. is way above your league. Please go back to your 'tune your OS in 24 easy steps' beginners guide.
In other words: you have no clue on how software and hardware interact and you probably don't even know that it is possible to fix a problem without reinstalling your OS and in many cases even without rebooting.
The Dutch guy who just went up with the Russians once said in an interview: Like the USA, at ESA we are very thorough on our equipment and we cherrish it. If it is not necessary, you are not even allowed to point at a rocket, let alone touch it. When I went to Russia for my first Russian training, I saw engineers hammering away at their rockets and boosters. They were sitting on the stuff working on it with wrenches and other heavy tools... it was not like anything I every experienced with ESA or NASA at all. It scared the shit out of me.
/. way: with a hammer and duck tape.... who knows? Fact is that they have been up there longer than anyone.
Maybe the Russians just do 'Space' the old fashioned
don't forget about this one.
Sorry, Netscape 6 must have given me the wrong impression then regarding Java. I remember it as slow and one HUGE download. For me, it were those ISDN days with a brand new computer....
And yes, I admit I was surprised finding such a heavy platform (again: my personal perception) running on such small hardware.
I must also admit that I'm very disassapointed at it, because running a high performance Java app, sucks power more quickly from my battery then running full screen video (eg Shrek 2). So it might run on small platforms, but quite top notch is something else.
I never thought of Java as something worth following, because it was my personal experiece that: - it is slow - files are biiiiiig I mean, running some Java app makes the fan of my Powerbook spinning. Face it, only Photoshop and Imovie do that to me ...
... Sun (or Nokia, or whoever) has done a great job there.
But in Europe Java is really strong in the mobile phone environment. I have this SE 900 and it always draws lots of attention and things that strike me most are remarks of non-technical people, like the 16 (or something) year old girl at some fast food joint: "Does it have Java?" Even my sister (30, knows shit about computers) has it on her wishlist: a Java enabled mobile phone...
The fact alone that it is seen as some 'special' thing