PDA / Do I even need a PC?

adruu

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Does anyone have one of these super PDA's that you can connect with Wi-Fi, stream music, and look at web pages? Not the early adopter I used to aspire to, so I don't know nuthing about nuthing about these things...
 

bo!ne

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I had a Palm Tungsten T2 but have since flogged it on eBay and got a laptop. Even the best Palms seem to have a problem with multitasking and implementing all the sexy bits is very fiddly and seems so limited if youre a MP3/AVI downloading disc-burning type of PC user.

If you can go 100-200 quid more get yourself a light slim laptop instead.

PDA's are only good as diaries and address books IMO
 

ome

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ive been using a palm treo 600 for a year now:

works as a phone
diary / address / 2do
mp3 player (1gig chip max)
works with blogger etc.. for posting
as a browser its a bit pants due to screen size, good for stuff like travel / cinemas
checking urgent email when on the road (not for every day stuff - unless you only recieve 1-2 emails a day)
i also do other geeky things like control my computer from home (vnc) and run a little database to log work

as for streaming music from the web: thats too expensive (service provider costs)
wi-fi would be cool (especially for over internet voice over internet) but its not avaliable in this palm version

but adruu right - it does not replace a laptop
 

adruu

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there's some stellar stuff over at kemplar.com / dynamism.com but it's way out of my range.

give it a year or two maybe, and then it seems possible. been browsing the gadget sites / reviews, and it doesn't seem like it is where it could be.

you would think they could make these things a *little* bigger and cram in enough silicone to do everything? i think the industry limits product development on purpose to create demand, but hey...
 

ome

Well-known member
PDA

the problem is the rezolution of the capture capabilities of our eyes and that our fingers are too big - so a huge gui change or will be required we adapt ourselves to the tech -hehe


what is cool is that last week a tawinize chip manufacture has brought out a whole gsm phone on one chip for less than $10 - the jump from ipod to mobile is in round the corner.... I have a friend putting them into t-shirts so you can txt to someones tshirt (flexiable lcd)
 
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