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Old 08-12-2008, 04:36 AM   #38
redbaron101
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Device: palm t3, iphone, bebook (hanlin v3 clone)
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post
I read on a Tapwave Zodiac 2, which is a Palm OS unit running OS 5.21. It has a 320x480 screen, 128MB of RAM, and two SD slots, among other things. ...
Hi Denis,

I know exactly where your coming from, having a Palm T3 - I used to do just about everything on it - it was only the failing blue-tooth and battery, and my personal wish to carry less around with me that I went for the iphone (and because the pda market is bottoming out in the uk). but then over 5 years of very productive use is good going for my palm, and i was seriously considering the treo, but after using an itouch fell in love with the iphone. I would say its been an uphill battle getting it to match the palm, but Im slowly getting there.

The main annoyance is to get anything productive on the iphone is that you have to 'jailbreak' it, and even more annoying is you need an apple to do any programming for the iphone, to rub salt into your wound you need a fairly recent apple as well, even my really old g3 updated to its max (os x 10.1) isnt good enough has to be 10.3+ Saying that it has great potential, you can run mysql, sqllite (databases), web server (cut down apache), ssh etc tie that in with a very sexy interface, plus the obvious phone functions and you've got a very handy device. For those of you not into modding, the offical App store is starting to churn out good useful stuff (not quite as good as jailbroken apps, but getting there). Retiring the palm was an incredibly hard thing to do for me, but the iphone while not quite there, is slowly getting there.

I can read text, pdbs, pdfs, although pdfs are a pain with the iphone (what with the constant zooming etc). Having said that I am still looking for a dedicated ebook reader (prob will shell out for hanlin v3 - their second version of the v3 model seems to tick all the boxes at the moment)

sood
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