- Re: EEE

- Re: Asus EEE & N810

- Re: N810

- The Definitive mobile OS Guide

Date: 21 Dec 2007 04:31:36 +0000
From: Bob <address truncated>
Subject: Re: EEE

I saw it in a magazine, might have PDA Essentials, and it looked interesting..  Noy being familiar with Linux OS, can you use or does it act like Windows or do you need all new stuff???
Thanks,
Bobby

Date: 21 Dec 2007 08:20:08 +0000
From: Michael Robins <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Asus EEE & N810

I have been looking at both the N810 and the Asus EEE as my next purchase, so I would be grateful to see further reports about them, to help me decide which one to afford! - within the constraints of the digest. Enjoy yourselves
MikeR

Mike Robins

> Subject: Asus EEE


> I took the plunge and bought one last week (from Toys 'R' Us).  I am seriously impressed with it.  The overall size is very much on a par with the 7/Netbook but you get built-in wifi, 3 USB ports and an SD/MMC card slot. It runs an Asus modified version of Xandros Linux and I'm happy to leave mine in the 'Easy' mode with all the software accessible by tabs. It's easy to bring up a console if you want to get geeky. You can also fairly easily operate via the full KDE desktop if you want to. As I have a dual-boot desktop PC with Xandros Home Premium on it I can use that for the finer points of Linux.
> Bill Hardman

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> Date: 19 Dec 2007 19:24:41 +0000
> From: Ajai Khattri <address truncated>
> Subject: N810

> Ive just had my shiny new N810 for a little over a week. Its a very nice machine. Love the browser, PDF viewer and RSS feed reader. Just wish it had Psion Data :-)

>  

Date: 21 Dec 2007 08:20:48 +0000
From: Chris Handley
Subject: Re: N810

Hello Ajai,

Ajai Khattri wrote:
> Ive just had my shiny new N810 for a little over a week. Its a very nice machine. Love the > browser, PDF viewer and RSS feed reader. Just wish it had Psion Data :-)

Would you be able to try out the Garnet VM (
http://www.access-company.com/products/gvm/) to see if it can wake-up
the N810 for alarm reminders?  (The N810 has a sleep mode, in addition
to a fully-off mode.)

If not, could you see if the GPE Calendar (
http://oss.kernelconcepts.de/maemo/calendar.shtml) has alarms that
work?  (They may not work at all, even when the machine is fully on.)

I mentioned this in more detail in my post titled "Nokia N810 as a PDA
?!?" in Digest #1174.
--
Chris Handley

Date: 22 Dec 2007 19:30:50 +0000
From: Mike Dyer <address truncated>
Subject: The Definitive mobile OS Guide

Hi,

yesterday at work I was reading the latest issue of 'Pda Essentials', it's a UK handheld computing magazine.
Inside they had a feature on 'The Definitive mobile OS guide', where they compared Palm OS 5, Symbian S60, and Windows Mobile 6.

I had my Treo 650 with me of course.

During their review of Palm OS 5 (page 20), they said "Palm OS always seems just a bit less functional than either S60 or Windows Mobile 6. For example, on the Treo when you access Contacts, there's no option to start a text message, and in Windows Mobile 6 if you receive an email with a phone number in it, you can click on the number to dial it, but Palm OS does not seem to acknowledge that email and phone functions can be linked"

Excuse me ?,

I picked up my Treo, accessed Contacts, highlighted a mobile phone number from the list of Contacts, and immediately the Treo popped up an icon 'Message' so I could start a text message if I wished.

Then as a test, I emailed an email from one of my accounts, to another quoting a phone number, I then retrieved it with my Treo. As soon as I opened it the email there was the phone number underlined in blue, and if I tapped on it, the Treo would dial it for me.

I don't know weather this was sloppy journalism or anti-palm bias, but it was irritating.

Regards,
Mike Dyer.