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Sat July 24 2004

Palm dominates Pocket PC at Chess

04:10 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

For the first time ever, a Palm chess program is dominating all other
chess software on the Pocket PC (and the Palm). So the developer claims.

After 42 games between Palm chess Hiarcs (the strongest Palm chess
program) and Pocket Fritz 2 (the strongest Pocket PC chess program) with
both running on 400Mhz XScale hardware the score stands at:
Palm Chess Hiarcs 9.41 27.5-14.5 Pocket Fritz 2

And according to the developer, Palm Hiarcs is beating other Palm chess programs like Chess Tiger and Chess Genius by even greater margins.

Does that mean Palm-based PDA's are smarter than PPC?

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PocketUAE - First Amiga emulator for PPC

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

This is perhaps one of the most anticipated PPC emulator ports. Ismail Khatib has made available the first Commodore Amiga emulator that runs on your small PPC screen. It features everything UAE-based emulators have to offer, such as support for up to 4 Floppy Drives, emulation for 68000/010/020/040 CPU, optionally a 68881 FPU, OCS, ECS and AGA Graphics Chipset (including sprite-playfield collisions, up to 2MB Chip RAM and up to 8MB Fast RAM, or 8MB Chip RAM without Fast RAM, up to 64MB Zorro III Fast RAM, independent of Chip RAM setting (68020+ only), up to 1MB Slow RAM, for extended compatibility with problem software, a hard-disk: either a harddisk image file or part of the native filesystem, and Mouse and Joystick support (Stylus and D-Pad on PocketPC). Keyboard support is still buggy, and a GUI is not available yet (so you cannot change disc images while Pocket UAE is running).

Side fact: the first Amiga (Amiga 1000) was presented in New York City exactly 19 years ago (July 23 1985).

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Fri July 23 2004

Fujitsu-Siemens Loox 720 revealed at FCC!

07:08 PM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Fcc.gov turns out to be one of my favorite "latest geek" news sources Their site now reveals (manuals, photos, specs) some exciting highlights of the new Fujitsu-Siemens Loox 720 PocketPC. Aside from the great 3.6" 640x480 high resolution display, this PPC will have built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, a 1.3 Megapixel camera, USB2.0, and it will be powered by an Intel PXA272 520MHz processor.

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Thu July 22 2004

the Jackito: the first *TDA*

02:55 PM by ignatz in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

[Links from Slashdot]
A French company is producing a device they are calling a TDA, tactile digital assistant. It uses no stylus, but simply your thumbs. I haven't made it through the website yet, because it's pretty heavily slashdotted at the moment, but it looks pretty sweet. There are also two columns written about it here and here. Looks like the initial price will be high, around $600. Target release is in 3 months and they are already taking pre-orders (though I don't know anyone gadget crazy enough to buy a product that they've never seen). It runs on ONE AA BATTERY for weeks, they claim. It is available in black and white and color. I'll be very curious to see how this develops...

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Tue July 20 2004

Perform surgery on your Palm and drastically increase battery life!

01:37 PM by ignatz in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

I hadn't been to the Brighthand Palm forums in a long time, so I recently went to peruse. Lo and behold, there is an incredible (and incredibly long) thread on upgrading your Tungsten battery and squeezing a lot more life out of it. A lot is made of the complexity, but if you have any basic soldering and electronics skills, it sounds simple. I am planning to replace my T|E battery (stock at 850 mAh) with a more powerful one (1200 mAh) and will try to document the procedure for the benefit of all. If you have ever cursed your battery length and you've got a steady hand and a brave heart, this is a thread for you!

(BTW, PDAparts.com has a page with instructions for dismantling a wide variety of PDA's. Recommended if you've never been inside yours before!)

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Instant Book Machine

09:22 AM by Bob Russell in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Everyone knows you can walk up to machines to get a variety of items like stamps, money, tickets, etc.

Well you may soon be able to walk up to a machine and get a paperback! For an expected price of less than $100,000, the On Demand Machine Corporation will be offering the BookMachine that can create paperback books on demand. Books can be printed in three to five minutes in various sizes. The machine even handles the payment process if using a credit card.

While there are competing systems offered by IBM and Xerox, the BookMachine is designed to be so simple that a customer or clerk can run the machine as easily as a copy machine. A master database holds all the contents of books remotely.

Pretty impressive. Still, wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to just download the book and read it on your handheld?

Our thanks to Engadget for pointing out this bit of news first.

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Mon July 19 2004

4G iPods Announced

09:28 AM by brahamt in Archive | Portable Audio/Video

After much rumor and much speculation, the fourth generation of the venerable Apple iPod was announced today Apple Site.

Over the past several months, there were numerous rumors about the features to be included in the new iPod ranging from the plausible (video display) to the not bloody likely (WMA support). In the end, we got the iPod mini controls, simplified menu system, slightly smaller size, 50% better battery life, speed variable Audiobooks, multiple On-The-Go Playlists, and my personal favorite, Sync and charging through USB.

Other Links
Newsweek Article from MSNBC
MacMinute

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iSilo/X V4.1 Beta 2

04:12 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | iSilo/X

The news is a few days late, but better now than never...
Only after the two-weeks old release of iSilo V4.05 Final, the makers of iSilo already offer the next beta V4.1 Beta 2 for download (iSiloX download). Lot's of changes, plus the added ability to support external document linking (e.g., cross-document linking).

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