- Re: Foleo - Netbook PRO

- RE: Gmail pop3 access

- Palm's new mobile companion

- EBook Reader

- Palm Foleo

- Using BackUp with Contacts

Date: 1 Jun 2007 08:57:00 +0700
From:<address truncated> (Christoph Pulster)
Subject: Re: Foleo - Netbook PRO

Hi,

PALM Foleo: very simple mail/internet-box without touchscreen, 5h 
batterie time, very strange, non-open Linux system, around 599 USD

Netbook PRO: multi-purpose machine, 12h batterie time,
with add-on cards it offers all actual standards:
- serial & USB link/sync
- CF & SD & PCMCIA slot
- Bluetooth connection to printers, mobile etc
- GSM/GPRS, UMTS mobile data connections
- WLAN wireless surfing
- GPS navigation tbc.

Besides the Windows CE.net system you can use Linux (very beta, very 
intersting new project for all Psion-freaks !).

I am selling new english units now for reasonable 649 eur.
Used units are 499 eur.
After this price drop, I see no reason to buy a Foleo.

Christoph
www.pulster.de

PD: Germany hosted the soccer championchips 2007 and the mascot was 
called "Goleo" - no child want to play with this ugly beast.

Date: 3 Jun 2007 07:28:02 +0700
From: K.I. van der Straten <address truncated>
Subject: RE: Gmail pop3 access

*  Date: 29 May 2007 20:05:01 +0700
*  From: Giorgio <address truncated>
*  Subject: Gmail pop3 access

*  Hi Alan, could you please kindly explain with all the possible links
*  and details, how can you use Gmail on your 5mx ? (I also don't
*  understand what has to do Outlook 2002 with a 5mx)

Hello Giorgio,

I asked the same question in February and got this answer see The Digest 1055.
And it is a good solution.

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Date: 12 Feb 2007 12:25:53 +0700
From: Howard Weissman <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Psion and GMail

For K.I. van der Straten

I use a work around for Gmail-

Using a Psion compatable ISP, my Gmail accounts- I have several- are set asforward to my ISP email address.

Outgoing messages are sent with the necessary Gmail address. It helps to setupseveral email accounts with your ISP

logon information and your gmail address.

Hope this helps.

Howard W.
New York, NY

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Regards,

Kees.

Date: 3 Jun 2007 11:43:41 +0700
From: Thomas F. van der Zijden <address truncated>
Subject: Palm's new mobile companion

Dear all, As a loyal netBook user, I am quite interested by this Palm mobile
companion. For me, the price in Europe would be paramount. If it is less
than 500 euros, it will be my netBook replacement. If it is more than 700
euros, I will stay with the netBook. If it is in between: normal laptops
are in the shops for 500 euros, but I am still interested. That is the beef I have with it: it is a netBook with the additional
features that were lacking. There is integrated WiFi, there is more RAM,
there is probably a good Office Suite - I do hope the Office Suite is not
dumbed down. However, it still is a PDA, just like the netBook. That means
that it does not have much multimedia capacity, you cannot install
unlimited stacks of programs on it, et cetera. If I dig out the cash, why
shouldn't I go directly for a UMPC? By the way, I would be very interested if Christoph Pulster sticks out his
European antenna's and gets more info and pricing for it. This may be an
interesting device for a Psion shop. :-) Does anyone have info on its PDA capacities, that is Agenda and Contacts
?I did not see those in its multimedia presentation. Yours sincerely, Thomas van der Zijden

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Date: 3 Jun 2007 17:22:23 +0700
From: Jim Watson-Gove <address truncated>
Subject: EBook Reader

My second Tungsten C just died and I haven't the heart to, one more time, send it and its brother to the Palm repair center.  I've been that route three times now.

Instead I sent my two dead 5mx's to Ontario Canada to have new cables installed. In the meantime I am carrying my MBook with me in a briefcase where-ever I go while waiting for a verdict from Shiva Naipaul at Palmtop Support Services.

One place the Palm excelled was the ebook function.  I routinely download books from www.memoware.com and
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks. They both offer Palm format and .doc format.  The Palm is self loading into a Palm. I assumed that the .doc format would be for a non-palm unit (Pocket PC perhaps?) but tried a download to my Psion.  Lots a garbage but could read some of the text.  Close but no cigar.

Is anyone using a reader program on a 5mx (or netbook) that will accept a download from one of these great libraries?  I use VReader5 and it works great on the old Psion library (I downloaded 100% of the files when Compuserve was closing shop on us.)

Maybe someone has a copy of Barry Childress's program (was it Barry?  That was a long time ago) to compress a file on a desk-top into a .TCR for the 3 series Psions.  If so I could roll my own (if I can find a DOS emulator for my
Windows machine).

(so many problems, so little time)

jim - port townsend, wa, usa

Date: 3 Jun 2007 17:22:24 +0700
From: Jim Watson-Gove <address truncated>
Subject: Palm Foleo

I'm confused (nothing new about that).

The Netbook is still availale isn't it?  Albeit with a Pocket WinDoz OS.  The big uproar was the OS as I understand it.  Is Linux that much better that the existing NBook is considered a non-runner?

jim - port townsend, wa, usa

<<Some of us said that Psion was stupid for not producing a consumer (and Symbian) orientated Netbook Pro.  Well, Palm are now basically
doing what Psion would not do, with their Foleo:>

<<The first real answer to Psioneers' dreams?>

<<How ironic - Palm brings out a new laptop with a 10" screen.>

<<Sounds pretty close to a netBook huh? ;-)>

Date: 3 Jun 2007 21:42:26 +0700
From: Stéphane Sage <address truncated>
Subject: Using BackUp with Contacts

Hello all.

Thanks to both Rolf (Vonau) and Kees (van der Straten) for their help on using BackUp on my 5MX while being able to close Contacts before that (and saving it as well...): Rolf's OPO program works like a dream.

Stéphane SAGE (Grenoble)