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Old 01-30-2008, 07:21 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by MachinegunDojo View Post
How long of a life does that PDA get while reading books, I have been thinking of getting the Nokia N800 or whatever it was, which is said to have like 4hrs of life so if the PDA does about that much I might go for that Nokia due to it being a small computer and seems rather interesting. Amazon has one for $228 which seems great to me.
Hard to say. I top my PDA off nightly. In an average day, I may see battery power drop to perhaps 70%. The big variable on battery life is screen brightness, and I keep mine set as low as I can comfortably read it. (About 10%, with backlight turned off entirely outdoors.)

Wifi eats power like crazy. If I plug in my Wifi card, I'll see power levels drop rapidly in the Zodiac. I suspect the same is true in the Nokia, and if you don't use Wifi much you'll see better than 4 hours of useful life before needing to recharge.

I've been lusting in the background after the Nokia 800. I don't need the keyboard of the 810. I do want two SD slots. The Zodiac has two SD slots, and that makes my setup possible.

The main reason I haven't gone for the Nokai yet is that PIM functionality isn't quite there. I need a device that can replace my Zodiac if I'm going to do it. One thing of great interest is Palm OS compatibility.

Access in Japan bought the former Palmsource operation that produced Palm OS. They were going to make a Linux based smartphone OS that would include PalmOS functionality. What they wound up doing was was encapsulating Palm OS "Garnet" as a virtual machine running on Linux. They recently released a beta of GVM as a free download for the Nokia tablets, and it runs on the 770, 800, and 810 devices. There are quirks: GVM apparently can't see SD cards on the Nokia, and can't run Palm OS apps that use external libraries. But the fact that it exists at all is a hopeful sign.

The big questions I'd have about the 800 as an ebook reader would be the formats it could read. FBREader is available for it, and that covers a lot of bases... (See http://www.fbreader.org/about.php)
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