Utter piffle. I work with the blind. Although the cane is useful for detecting surfaces and walls, it's the sound of the tapping that provides the important spatial cues.
PPC "Magneto" (based on CE 5.0) will include support for Trusted Computing, and also will use persistent storage (flash based) instead of the current ram based file system and registry.
With persistent storage, when you have a crash or do a hard reset, you won't lose data, patches, or apps (in theory). But Suspend could be pathetically slow, sort of like hibernate on the desktop, since all files have to be flushed before power down.
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Utter piffle. I work with the blind. Although the cane is useful for detecting surfaces and walls, it's the sound of the tapping that provides the important spatial cues.
But they have improved--battery life is now measured in minutes instead of seconds!
PPC "Magneto" (based on CE 5.0) will include support for Trusted Computing, and also will use persistent storage (flash based) instead of the current ram based file system and registry. With persistent storage, when you have a crash or do a hard reset, you won't lose data, patches, or apps (in theory). But Suspend could be pathetically slow, sort of like hibernate on the desktop, since all files have to be flushed before power down.