Thread: Your Next Pda
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Old 04-22-2003, 12:14 AM   #4
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1. I currently have an NX70V, and if it were not for that, I would probably be saving my nickels and dimes for a NZ90. However, my next PDA will probably be something that Sony releases when OS6 becomes available. I am highly fascinated by some of the improvements promised by OS6, and think them worth waiting for. The RAM limit improvement from Palm SG and PalmSource comes at a time when Sony would still be able to build it into an OS6 device. I also hope for OS6 to include a revamped version of VFS, one which supports FAT32, in order to work with cards larger than 2 GB.
2. I do use wireless now, both through Sony's own Wi-Fi card (I used a Socket card with my 330) and through IR with my T68i. A bit kludgy when my handset has built-in Bluetooth, I know, but I just haven't found myself willing thus far to shell out for the Bluetooth MemStick. Besides that, I have both my Web browser and my e-mail client stored on my MemStick, and I don't have enough free RAM to pull them both back off the card at the same time, so I'm essentially stuck using IR and leaving the MemStick slot open.
3. I hope not for wireless access at all, but for more seamless wireless access. Where I work, there is no Wi-Fi signal, and my wireless phone doesn't get a signal, so I have no wireless at all (Thankfully, I'm in a computer lab, so it doesn't matter). However, there are a lot of places on campus where this is the case, and where I can't get data at all. I would like to see a less broken connection with my data, the ability to log on from anywhere, using either my Wi-Fi card or my wireless phone (preferably the card, because university data access is free), and access my e-mail. It would be nice to have data access on a whim.
4. While wireless access is nice for the very latest news, and for forum surfing and other communication, I don't think anything will soon replace iSilo and the like for handheld data. Wireless access is still too rare and expensive to be used in such quantities. The amount of data I load to my handheld with one sync from iSilo would bankrupt my data allowance from my wireless provider in three tries. In other words, if I didn't have iSilo and my PC, I would be able to sync about every two weeks, plus whatever syncs I could get in using my wireless card. In short, I don't think my iSilo habits will change very much.
5. Yes...I admit, I've thought about it a little
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