Comments on: PDA vs Electronic Ink

By: hobbyns

hobbyns — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 04:49:22 +0000

heh. the thing I like most about uBook is you can switch to any angle, and I dunno, I’ve just always felt more comfortable with a sideways, wide reading screen. Reminds me more of a book and does make it easier to read if you’re say, lying in bed. It’s just a personal preference.

By: D. Johnson

D. Johnson — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:20:20 +0000

Well have you ever driven your car in Portrait mode?

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:45:06 +0000

Why is landscape important?

By: hobbyns

hobbyns — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:05:56 +0000

Well, if it supports landscape mode. Otherwise forget it.

By: hobbyns

hobbyns — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:04:30 +0000

Actually, reading about the Sony Reader…. I want one.

By: hobbyns

hobbyns — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:03:28 +0000

Well I’ve had my little iPaq for years now and have used it almost solely as a reader. Well, that and solitaire and all the Popcap games. Linda and I both fight over it at word times etc, and since she’s been gone for a week with it in Canada I’ve discovered how much I’ve become used to it’s handy portability.

Oh, and I put the screen brightness at around 45 percent and get a good eight or ten hour battery life at a time. The readability is still good, especially in readers like uBook.

If it gets right down to it, I may buy another one. Though I’d get one with bluetooth this time.

Oh, and after talking with Kevin, as far as I know the infostore for PDA only works on WinCE2003. For now, anyway.

By: D. Johnson

D. Johnson — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:24:22 +0000

A PDA that uses Electronic Ink is actually not a bad idea. I used to own a Palm IIIx [http://www.palm.com/us/support/palm3x/] back in the day which was a monochrome screen but did basically all I’d want from a PDA (except voice/mp3 playback). — I almost wish someone would come out with such a device maybe based on Linux with a good development package. Would be sweet!

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:37:06 +0000

I’ve decided that I want a PDA that uses Electronic Ink. Actually I’m even more confused.

PDA phones are pretty interesting as well though at a price. But what I’ve heard is that they aren’t very good at either, IOWs they aren’t a great PDA and you can get a lot more if you get a PDA without a phone for a lot less. And as a phone they are just huge.

By: Toshi

Toshi — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:55:45 +0000

what about PDA phones or whatever the technical name is for them like an hp mobile messenger or the ppc6700 where they run WM5, run all the windows apps that everyone uses like word and such and has wifi. What is the down side of those as compared to PDA’s?

By: D. Johnson

D. Johnson — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:31:24 +0000

I forgot to mention one plus for either a PDA or UMPC is the fact that you can run Infostore on either one.