- Re: netbook battery

- Re: check this out - Perhaps a begining

Date: 11 Nov 2007 09:32:35 +0100
From: Chris Handley
Subject: Re: netbook battery

Hi Donald,

> "Hmmm, you may have missed the boat on this........"
> (I live here in New York and there seems to be many ways to get my hands on
> these units supposely new) so your response have arroused my intrest
> agaain. - I hear what your saying about abandonedware another reasons for
> all these question.

OK, maybe they just stopped supplying UK/Europe - but I was under the impression that they were no-longer manufactured (because of the E90).
At the very least keep an eye on the availability of them, as they
might quickly run out of stock....

> 1st I want to make sure I understand what u said -
> "the Nokia 9500 can create, send & receive faxes using the Messaging program
> ........................." and then u said " ............*BUT* there doesn't
> seem to be any "Print to Fax" option.  And although the 9500 can act as an
> InfraRed modem, it apparently does not act as a Fax modem.  So you can't
> print-to-fax from the Psion either.
> "Already covered this - no print to fax on the 9500.  Nor saving in
> Psion format "
> Does this mean u can only create faxes using Nokias messageing program only?

Correct.

> and
> Do u mean that the Nokias Word/Sheet program has no option to print it as a
> fax?

Correct.

> and
> "So you can't print-to-fax from the Psion either." well, I think this might
> be a type error because as I said I've been printing to fax from just about

I meant (you can't) print-to-fax from the Psion *using* the Nokia 9500
as a fax modem.

> From what I think I understand from your feedback is I won't be able to use
> the 9500 as an IR modem, is that true?

You can (apparently) use it as an IR modem - just not a fax capable one.

> Remember - u must have that fax option activated through your provider (it
> will cost extra, so most people won't bother) - so are u sure of this?

I have not checked this myself - but some I had done a quick search
and some tech-savy-sounding people tested the 9500, and (a) failed to
use it as a fax, when presumably they could fax using other phones,
and (b) querying the modem (using a serial terminal & AT commands)
reported no fax capability.

BTW, I had fax capability enabled on my Orange mobile contract for NO
cost.  And I suspect that would be the same in many European
countries.

> Are u saying files would have to be converted 1st before sending them over
> to the 9500? (ie. word/sheet) so they can be viewed on the 9500 ?

Yes.

For your reference:  EPOC (Psion) uses 8-bit ASCII characters, while
Symbian uses 16-bit Unicode characters, so although the Word/etc
formats are (apparently) very similar from a programmer's point of
view, they are completely incompatible from a file format point of
view.  Someone was trying to write a 'dumb' utility to convert between
8-bit & 16-bit formats, but it was never finished AFAIK.  Sadly.

Regards,
Chris Handley

P.S.  I copied this email to the Digest, even though your last reply
did not do so, since I figured that explaining my (apparently
ambiguous) answers might be helpful to other people.  And if I made
any mistakes, they could be pointed out...

Date: 11 Nov 2007 20:59:56 +0100
From: Trygve Henriksen <address truncated>
Subject: Re: check this out - Perhaps a begining

check this out - Perhaps a begining

> http://directron.com/eeepc4g.html

I've seen it mentioned an tested on other sites, and it's nice... Not as long battery-life as a netBook, but still...

As for the 'new concept' hype *Sigh*...
It's not even close to being the first in this size.

We have our netBooks, Olivetti had their Quaderno, the OLPC is the same approximate size, and I'm certain there's been a few others, too.
I'm not certain, but I think the Compaq Contura Aero was slightly larger. (Not to mention the Toshiba Libretto which was even smaller)

That said, if I wasn't COMPLETELY broke at the moment(can't even afford a new Airport card for my ailing iBook, so have to use the HP nc2400 12" laptop my office gave me), I would already have one on order...

:-)
Trygve
http://www.totallytrygve.com