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Originally Posted by nor11wan
Hi there,all these serious discussions regarding the various versions of the A81 have left me
very very confused,I am an ordinary user seeking to replace my aging Axim50,my needs
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I apologize, I probably need to go over to one of the UMPC or HPC type development boards and keep my development type discussion there instead of this site which is supposed to be mobile reading centric.
I am probably just adding noise on the signal to noise ratio here for common user purposes.
I'm sorry that I can't offer you a suggestion for something that "just works" out of the box, but I can tell you some of the thoughts I went through when in a similar boat as yours.
I was replacing a Toshiba E-310. Pocket PC OS is no more. It was raw CE on a device like this, or take it in the neck from AT&T each month with a Widows mobile smart phone.
Or, for an exorbitant sometimes Ipad-like price, there's the enterprise NON-phone types that only HP still makes with Windows Mobile "Classic" (which means no phone).
Amazon IPAQ-211-Enterprise-Handheld-210
So bottom line... a device like this A81 from the CE side is the no-frills, DIY Windows CE core OS. If you want all the baked in nice stuff that just works, then you need the Windows Mobile type device which has all the extra goodiness baked in on TOP of Windows CE to hide you from the rawness and make the device work more like a gadget.
The Chinese manufacturers license the cheap base Windows CE OS, and I can't imagine how much more expensive a device like this would be if they licensed a classic non-phone version of Windows Mobile to put on here.
In the end for me, as much as I liked the HP classic PDA, I couldn't justify getting a small expensive screen to replace my old Toshiba, plus I'm a tinkerer so a raw operating system was fine by me for the price and larger screen size.
If I were just an ordinary user instead of a developer, I don't know what I'd do...probably Android. I think the Ipads are too big, the pocket PC form factor too small, and this 7 inch tablet is just right.