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Date: 4 Aug 2004 02:39:13 +0100
From: Martin Maxwell
Subject: RE: Thoughts.
From Martin MaxweAnswer to: Mike Dyer
Subject: RE: Thoughts.
Dear Mike,
I recommend you do not fully retire your Revo. You might have good use for it together with the P800 regardless if you leave the Revo at home or not. There is one key endearing feature with all UIQ/ER7 and EIKON/ER5 machines; that it is possible to beam *all* contacts in one go.
You can keep your Revo as the Contacts master database, which is much easier to maintain due to the keyboard and larger screen, and then regularly update the P800 by beaming the complete Contacts base from the Revo. Even your Contact notes will be beamed.
My Contacts base has close to 3000 entries so it takes some time...but it still works.
And this works without having plBeam installed in the EIKON/ER5 machine.
If you have plBeam installed in the Revo it might open some other options as well.
cheers
Martin Maxwell
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia
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Date: 4 Aug 2004 10:00:39 +0100
From: Philip Carlisle
Subject: Psion Computer
Hi Gang
Has anyone got news of Issue 2 of Psion Computer?
I received Issue 1 (Jan 04) as promised and had thought that the next one was imminent
Regards
Philip Carlisle
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Date: 4 Aug 2004 22:20:01 +0100
From: Alan Morris
Subject: Toolbar Patcher
Toolbar Patcher is a small app that corrects an error in the netBook OS (158), whereby the battery display changes to a triangle in 3rd party OPL apps.
I installed this about June this year (V-1.01), but recently noticed that sometimes the green level stays at full, while built-in apps display a true reducing level of green.
Has anyone else noticed this, or has Andrew Gregory released a newer version?
--
Alan R Morris, G4ENS.
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.
Using a Psion netBook & Nokia 6210e.
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Date: 6 Aug 2004 14:54:33 +0100
From: Franco Cozzani
Subject: Palm ? Thanks but no thanks
Good afternoon to everybody!
On these (virtual) pages, I had written a while ago about my plans to order
the then new Palm Zire 72 as a companion - not at all a replacement - to my
aging MC 218 (the Ericsson-branded clone of the 5 Mx).
The issue was - technically - to enjoy colours, use the camera for visual
filing, easier sync to a PC via USB, more confortable linking to my GSM via
Bluetooth. Typing on Word and Sheet (I do a good lot of both) was reserved
for my MC 218 apart from, of course, the three Windows PC I am using.
Emotionally, the idea was to stop whining about our beloved Psion 5 mx form
factor and Epoc being for now buried under the vagaries of Mr Market, and
enjoy modern times, just for a change.
I see to understand that our Editor in chief is not being very happy about
his Sony Clié (a rather upscale model if I recall correctly, a NX 73 ??).
So, what about my own experience ?
Actually, I returned the unit out of exasperation since:
* The camera button did not work properly. The unit being defective,
this actually saved me from the doubt whether to keep it even if unhappy
about it.
* Construction quality was passable, but not all satisfying. In
particular the screen flexes eerily under soft pressure from the (really
cheap) stylus.
* The OS crushes all the times, and this is much worse than ...
Windows !!! Actually my Toshiba laptop running XP froze just once in almost
one year.
* The screen is excellent in brightness, but the icones of the OS are
just drab. Hopelessly so. I just saw on the web a few of the screens of the
new top smartphones/communicators running Symbian 7 (which I understand is
the granddaughter of our Epoc) and I would have cried, if I were not such an
old man.
* The much touted (in the reviews) Bluetooth & web access was a joke.
It might be easy to set it up in some countries, but Belgium is not listed
in the wizard... Granted, I felt more spacey when I was living in the good
ol' USA, but we are 10 millions folks here nevertheless! Trying to play
manually with the set proved a futile exercise and could not get the bloody
machine to understand my DNS settings. BTW, I am pretty dumb in info & comm
tech but remember I could set up my connection in my GSM/GPRS and my MC 218
in 5 minutes.
* I knew of the lack of a file strucure in Palm OS 5 (the Zire is
running 5.2.8 I think) but this is really bad. I mean, operating the machine
is illogical and takes a long time to think in these too primitive terms.
* Graffiti 2 is intuitive and takes little to learn it, in theory. But
it suffices an imperfect constant pressure on the (flexing) screen and some
letters - like the "a" - just do not come up. So, nice to try once and then,
"where is a keyboard or at least a thumb-board, please ?"
* Last but not the last, there is no feedback nor help from Palm UK
(that is, Palm Europe). They only offer a paying service, but should one pay
to ask if a button is broken or not ??
In conclusion, I had ordered the Zire to try out the Palm platform, with a
view to give it to my daughter (14) when a new model possibly running Palm
OS 6.2 (I read not very well about 6.0) was to be available.
But my poor girl does not deserve this fate ! She will get something else
from her dad, perhaps somethin' running Symbian 7...
Happy holydays to everybody on the digest and regards to the editors.
Franco COZZANI
Brussels
PS: I support the digest being an Epoc digest. But many of us write about
replacements or companions running other platforms, and saw quite a bit on
Palm, so here it is my feedback
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