[ILUG] PDAs...

John P. Looney john at antefacto.com
Tue Mar 27 17:05:46 IST 2001


On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:53:10PM +0100, Padraig Brady mentioned:
> Lisa looks much better than WinCE in my opinion. Actually
> John and I were looking at this oriental guy playing with it, and
> he had a canary when the language setting was changed
> to display Kanji. He said he paid $100 extra for WinCE
> Kanji edition or whatever.

 "Very nice. But what about non-english languages ?"
 click. click. click.
 "Kanji or tagalog"
 "oooooohhhh..."

> I'm still going to hold out for the 64MB versions that
> don't have serialised keys (The iPaq @ present doesn't
> recognise simultaneous keypresses, which is crap for
> games etc.).

 They really seem to intend to charge a premium for the 64MB version - 
    http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010309/daf022.html
    http://www2.pdabuzz.com/Forums/showthread.php?threadid=14142

 Though, ya really need PCI in a linux box...

Kate

-- 
 When I say 'free', I mean 'free': free from bond, of chain or command: 
to go where you will, even to Mordor, Saruman, if you desire. " 
    -- Gandalf, paraphrasing the choice between Free and Non-free software




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