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« on: March 20, 2006, 11:57:40 am »
Hello,

doesn't this look extremely interesting? For now it looks like the device I was ooking for for the last 10 years:

Deutsch:
http://www.road-gmbh.de/produkte/index_02.html

English:
http://www.road-gmbh.de/en/produkte/index_02.html


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« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2006, 01:49:24 pm »
There was a lot of discussion on this device when it was forst announced - quite sometime back.

Now if only we get to actually see the product come to market (of course not the US market - we don't hope for such miracles) !
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« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2006, 02:46:05 pm »
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Hello,

doesn't this look extremely interesting? For now it looks like the device I was ooking for for the last 10 years:

Deutsch:
http://www.road-gmbh.de/produkte/index_02.html

English:
http://www.road-gmbh.de/en/produkte/index_02.html


daniel
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I would definitely buy one of these!
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« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2006, 03:28:31 pm »
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There was a lot of discussion on this device when it was forst announced - quite sometime back.

Now if only we get to actually see the product come to market (of course not the US market - we don't hope for such miracles) !
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Really? When was that? I saw it the first time today.
What's the history? Only an announcement or some details?
It will be available in July they said.

Since it's a quad-band phone with also 1900 MHz it would fit the US market. 1900 MHz is not used anywhere in Europe as fasr as I know.

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« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2006, 06:48:52 am »
Just one problem. It only has *viewers* for office apps. That's no use to me as I use my Z to update Excel spreadsheets all the time.
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« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2006, 08:30:43 am »
I had the honor to play with a preproduction model when I was @ FOSDEM. It looks and feels pretty good - much more "precious" than I had expected by looking at the photos.

As a phone, it just works - with a good sound.
As a PDA, it's just cool - the landscape resolution gets some time to get used to, but the UI has been designed to take this into account.

The keyboard is very good for that size - feels a bit like on a Psion Revo. Display very bright and fairly readable in sunlight. Speed ok - about the same as on a clamshell Zaurus.

The OS felt rock solid, there's a recent kernel 2.6 underneath and ROAD patched the guts out of Qtopia 2.x to make it work

To my knowledge, we will be able to write applications for it. On the preproduction I already spotted some Opie apps

In short, it's recommended and will be my first Linux phone.
(No, I couldn't keep the device )
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« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2006, 11:15:44 am »
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Just one problem. It only has *viewers* for office apps. That's no use to me as I use my Z to update Excel spreadsheets all the time.
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Probably Textmaker can be installed on it. Hopefully a Planmaker / Zaurus will be available then, too, which can be installed.

Well, can those QT-based Zaurus apps be installed on a QTopia 2.x device with 640x240 resolution without problems?

If so, also hancom Office should be installable, so you have the same applications as on the Zaurus.

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« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2006, 11:17:42 am »
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To my knowledge, we will be able to write applications for it. On the preproduction I already spotted some Opie apps
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Will we also be able to use the old Zaurus applications?
I think this phone/PDA will be quite expensive, so not all developers will immediately buy one to port their applications to it.
I rely on daily usage of StageOne, KDEPIM/PI and some other Zaurus VGA / Qtopia 1.x apps...

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« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2006, 11:43:11 am »
that's a pretty thin screen.  I wonder how usefull having half the resolution of vga will be.
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« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2006, 01:16:42 pm »
any word on a price?  I have never seen this before!  Thanks for the info.  Forget the HTC universal, I want a phone like this!
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« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2006, 05:35:47 am »
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Really? When was that? I saw it the first time today.
What's the history? Only an announcement or some details?
Last year's GSM Congress in Cannes. I sent them a mail last year but did not get any response. But there seems to be some progress now.

What I don't like is the 640x240 display. Should be 640x480...

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