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New products and alternatives / Letux 380: Small And New Linux (qt) Phone To Come

« on: March 25, 2008, 09:17:04 am »

Uhm.. I see

But if all connectivity I have is bluetooth, why should I even care it runs linux?

My understanding is that if you just want basic phone capabilities, OS doesn't matter; but for a smartphne, OS is important to make the handset suit your needs.

My 2cents.

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New products and alternatives / Letux 380: Small And New Linux (qt) Phone To Come

« on: March 25, 2008, 09:00:25 am »

Nowadays, for a mobile equipment, I find it more useful to have 3-3.5G connectivity than even wifi.

3/3.5G vs Wifi
- always available, for wifi you need to be close to a hotspot and you cannot move
- everyday new flat-rate operators are coming into the play, so it's not that expensive anymore
- 3.5G can be really fast at least fast for web/mail traffic you cannot tell the difference
- wifi: very unsecure, easily anyone can eavesdrop your network traffic, sites you visit, pop3 account info, ...

Of course I don't consider iPhone neither, for the same reasons.

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New products and alternatives / Letux 380: Small And New Linux (qt) Phone To Come

« on: March 25, 2008, 07:02:09 am »

no 3G? then you shouldn't consider it ...

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New products and alternatives / Zaurus Or N810 Or ?

« on: March 08, 2008, 09:26:37 pm »

So I have bought a fujitsu. I hope to have it in my hands within a week !

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New products and alternatives / Zaurus Or N810 Or ?

« on: March 07, 2008, 04:04:13 pm »

Uhm... I'm getting the fujitsu either tonite or tomorrow!! can't wait any longer without a new toy!! (that, of course, I'll use for work too)

archimark, thanks for the info

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New products and alternatives / Zaurus Or N810 Or ?

« on: March 07, 2008, 11:47:06 am »

I had a htc tytn ii (you know, a windows mobile 6 3G/wifi/bluetooth with sliding keyboard) but I sold it after 2 months:

- browsing was really painful
- even the 128MRAM, it felt slugish
- screen resolution 240x320 is definitelly not enough

so I'm lurking in ebay for the fujitsu u810/u1010.... my next victim?

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General Discussion / Forget The Zaurus - Itś Fujitsu Time!

« on: February 24, 2008, 03:43:38 pm »

Thanks for the reply; I already have taken a look at some and, as soon as I get rid of the tytn ii I'll get one.

First thing will be to understand why nobody could make linux suspend this unit!!

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General Discussion / Forget The Zaurus - Itś Fujitsu Time!

« on: February 24, 2008, 02:18:35 pm »

Thanks Chero.

I'm a linux-only user, so, can you please comment on the benefits of Vista Business and/or XPT over Vista Home?

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General Discussion / Forget The Zaurus - Itś Fujitsu Time!

« on: February 22, 2008, 01:14:18 pm »

There are some sellers on ebay.

Can you recommend any ?

New version with more connectivity options to be released in March.

Can you be more specific for that? What options? What date?

Thnaks a lot!

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General Discussion / Forget The Zaurus - Itś Fujitsu Time!

« on: February 22, 2008, 06:43:51 am »

jpmatrix:

the tytn2 is too big for just being a modem; I'll get a 3,5g usb modem for the fujitsu.

Also, the tytn2 suffers from the video driver issue (htcactionclass.org), and the low resolution screen (240x320) and the keyboard doesn't please me much. I have decided to go with the fujitsu instead.

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General Discussion / Forget The Zaurus - Itś Fujitsu Time!

« on: February 22, 2008, 03:37:36 am »

Thanks for the response; it has given me the definitive argument to go on with the purchase.

I'll be switching my htc tytn II by a cheap phone plus the fuji. The whole operation will take several weeks of ebaying, but the decision is now already made.

It is interesting the comment you make about the japanese model and keyboard remapping; I'll take a look in detail at both keyboards and make a decision then; and now that Microsoft decided to go "open source", maybe it's not so devil anymore so my little-me will allow me to use MS OS.

Thanks again

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General Discussion / Forget The Zaurus - Itś Fujitsu Time!

« on: February 20, 2008, 01:34:17 pm »

I'm planning on getting one of these. After such a time, what are your impressions/recommendations on this unit?

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Off Topic forum / What Laptop Do You Use, And Why?

« on: December 20, 2007, 06:24:19 am »

I'm using an ebay fujitsu b2610, PIII-800MHz/256RAM/30HD, 10' touchscreen (configured but not using it) with kubuntu. I like it so much that I bought a second unit just for p2p... (about 250euros each)

Theu don't have cdrom, but I just installed linux over the net with netboot/pxe boot. A little trouble, but with just one day fiddling I got it working. I know I could have bought a cheap usb-cdrom, but I liked the netboot option too! The netboot was only for installing linux; now it is not needed anymore.

The machine runs very well and it's very light, but a little underperforming; since I like the format, I'm planning on getting either a fujitsu P1610 or a Panasonic R7. Does anyone have experience on those?

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Nokia Tablet / Nokia N810

« on: December 03, 2007, 04:21:19 pm »

Uhm... where's that deal? Any links?

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New products and alternatives / Htc Tytn Ii

« on: November 23, 2007, 06:24:08 am »

I'm thinking about the new HTc TyTn II; I know, it's windows mobile 6, but it has all the hardware you can need: gsm/3G, wifi, gps, bt2.0, keyboard, touchscreen, sdhc, 128MB RAM, and there's plenty of software like putty, ....

Does anyone have experience on this unit?

I know its windows, I'm windows-free anywhere, but really until the android platform tuns on this beast, this machine is really a powerhorse.