04:06 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Russian Mobile-Review has reviewed the new Fujitsu Siemens Pocket LOOX 720. The devices features a 520MHz X-Scale processor, 128MB RAM, Bluetooth, WiFi, a 1.3MP digital camera and a VGA screen. - I am drooling! This is definitely the best PDA I've seen so far!

The handheld has ultimate features: two slots for expansion, two wireless adapters, USB-host, large RAM, VGA-screen, long battery life. The processor performs well during tests and under real conditions. The LOOX 720 comes with a nice design and a well thought-out ergonomics (grooves at sides, the scrolling wheel), unless the buttons have a lag. The microphone quality is the highest. The screen isn’t a large one, but its quality makes it the best compared with Toshiba e800 and Asus A730 (consider viewing angles). I am not praising the device, I’m just enumerating the facts. To say the truth, it’s very hard to find faults with the LOOX 720. Its only weak point is the price, besides the fans of Toshiba e800 and HP iPaq 4700 might say, the comfortable work with the VGA screen is possible only at 4”.

The LOOX 720 represents a Hi-End PDA of the second half 2004. Two wireless adapters, VGA-screen, Intel XScale PXA27x processor, WM2003SE operating system – we’ll meet such a combination many times in our future reviews very soon. I wonder who will be the first to release a handheld with the VGA screen and a single slot for expansion.

04:24 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Lounge

We have twelve SIXTEEN TWENTY-TWO Gmail invites to giveaway. All you have to do is reply to this thread and tell us what your favorite eBook reader is any why (one or two sentences is enough).

PS: If you won a Gmail invite before, but haven't received it yet, please PM me - I need your contact e-mail to send the invite!

04:02 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | iSilo/X

Yet another iSilo/X release!

Main changes of iSilo V4.15 Beta 1: some more tweaks of iSilo's categorization menu.

Main changes of iSiloX V4.15 Beta 1: support for a dynamic title component (for instance, you can have the conversion start time as part of the title).

Notice: iSilo/X Beta software is meant for testing only, beta versions of software will have expiration dates to prevent too many different and possibly buggy versions of the software from existing simultaneously.

09:02 AM by Laurens in Archive | Sunrise

This release adds Atom support, improves scripting and caching and contains a slew of changes and bug fixes. Thanks everyone for the feedback.

Quick Tour (lots of screenshots)

Change Log

Download from PalmGear

05:28 PM by ignatz in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Enfora sells wireless portfolios for Palm PDAs. They give wireless access to almost any Palm, including the T|E. The data goes through the sync connection, either the universal connector or the mini-USB in the case of the T|E. The wireless unit has its own rechargeable battery, so you can be wireless without sucking down your Palm's battery. I found a mention of this case at Brighthand and a review at Daily Gadget. Both of those date back to May and I have never heard of this! The price is a little steep at ~$150, but if you can't get wireless any other way, then this doesn't seem like too much to ask. I'd be curious to hear if anyone has seen/used one of these and what their impressions are.

09:20 AM by Zire in Archive | iSilo/X

An isilo version of the 9/11 Commission Report has finally been released.

From the site:

Description:
This is not simply a conversion from the original PDF to HTML like the other imposters out there! No less than 20 hours of hand editing were used to make this a a perfect compilation.

This version is "superlinked", meaning that every link, annotation, and resource within the document is linked to the relevant resources in the Notes and Appendix.

A completely new Table of Contents was added, a mini-TOC was added to each chapter, navigation elements were added to the top and bottom of each page to aid in navigating the document, and much much more!

High-resolution version also available.

Download the file here.

02:40 PM by Zire in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

I know that it's been a while since I put anything on the front page but this is big news. I am in awe of the new palms with large amounts of dynamic memory only because they can take advantage of such programs from codejedi such as GuineaPig which I have been wanting to try for a long time. This amazing program combines a genesis emulator, turbografix 16 emulator, gamegear emulator and sega master system emulator. The best of all it's free!

I found the following tidbit looking for an update of the palm pilot movie maker for the new treo and came upon something that I found interesting. It is a hack to "increase" the amount of dynamic memory on any palm. It is currently in beta and I havn't got to try it but it looks promising.

http://dmitrygr.palmz.ru/

From the site:

Unlimited Dynamic Memory Hack - by Dmitry Grinberg 08/31/2004 17:53

Unlimited Dynamic Memory Hack is in beta right now. Allows you to run programs that require a lot of dynamic memory, and thus will not run on older palms. Hopefully release will follow soon.

08:01 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Mobile Sites

This is a recommended read for everyone who makes websites and who also cares about handhelds.

A List Apart features an interesting article that deals with the question how to adjust your webpage to the needs of handheld devices.

Co-written by Jorunn D. Newth from Opera Software, the article first examines the constaints of a handheld device (small screen, limited input, slow downloading, slow processor, limited memory) and then explains how a webdesigner can scale-down his page to take these constaints into account (mainly through HTML optimization and special CSS markup).

I know MobileRead is still lacking full support for mobile devices; trust me, implementing it ranks very high on my list of to-do's!