New wrinkle in PDA

[ScottYelich]

hmm, well, everyone thought that the OQO was vaporware and a scam. but it turned out to be real.

for those who don't know what the OQO is: http://www.oqo.com

uh... maybe not a scam -- but was vaporware.

look at the time period between when it was

announced and when
it became available.

Scott

[bing]

thanks stu for the pointer.  you'er the man!

i used to read slashdots on my dell axim with avantgo. haven't read it since i got this z...

can anyone please paste the url to the comments page here? i can't find any comments on their site

There were referring  to the comments on Slashdot.org

Warning there are a lot of them and Slashdot has been shown to be addictive - you have been warned

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/1...tid=100&tid=137

Stu

[_Psycho]

I think out of two of them, I would take the oqo.  The jackito seems too propietary and less flexible.  The oqo claims 800x600 transflective!  They are all vapourware to me until regular shipments start.

800x480 actually on the OQO.

The web site say available in Fall 2004. I wonder if anyone actually got one. There is no price listed but it seem quite a device.

The other sure is a SCAM to me (after reading slashdot) even if the technologie impress and is very appeling when you order you can customize everytning

[waalkman]

It's a scam. weeks on a AA battery, YAWN....
Well, a single AA and a GByte Flash is not compatible at all...

Not without a DC to DC converter at least

What's the bare minimum these days? 2.3 volts?

But on weeks of Battery: My HP15C calculator is now 18 years old and I have replaced the batteries only once or twice (I don't even remember when).

Love my 15C, and it stills works perfectly. I also have a 16C and a 22.

The Newton did also have several weeks of standby - and approx. 24h of operation (was at least written in some FAQ I have googled: http://newted.dyndns.org/soupbox/batteryfa...x.html#Anchor-8 ).

Seems to me that my MP2K would last about two weeks whether I used it or not. My partner (finally) retired his old Palm which would get two weeks easy (he had a spreadsheet of which batteries lasted the longest).

It is all a matter of using CMOS and low clock frequency - and the single AA might be a LiION with 2.5Ah - but they don't tell.

-- hns

The picture shows a duracell...


John

[dhns]

I have sent them the question whether it runs Linux...

No response so far. Starts to indicate that the theory that it is something honest and real might be wrong (scientists do experiments to falsify theories)...

-- hns