TheDigest Sun, 06 Dec 2009, Volume 02, Number 1439

Topics

1. Re: Asus eee
2. New Psion?!
3. Ref: New Psion?!

Date: 5 Dec 2009 04:32:03 +0100
From: Jim Watson-Gove <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Asus eee

>> One more question.  Has anyone come up with a Palm hotsynch program for >
> Linux?
>
> http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/51114>

Thanks Aj

> I have a Microsoft-free household - all Macs or Linux
> :-)
>
> Aj.

That's my goal.

> Hi Jim, I don't have a Palm so don't know how good it works, but there are
> several solutions. - Gnome Pilot is a GNOME applet with a daemon that monitors
> for connections from a PalmOS-based device. - Opensync Palm plugin allows
> applications using OpenSync to synchronise to and from PalmOS based devices
> using its HotSync system. - There are also Perl and Python modules available
> to synchronize directly with the Palm.
>
> Best regards,
> /Michael

Thanks Michael

jim - port townsend, wa, usa

Date: 5 Dec 2009 22:24:20 +0100
From: Ajai Khattri <address truncated>
Subject: New Psion?!

Wow, this just came out of nowhere but its exciting!

http://psixpda.com/
Keyboard looks like an S7 but the form factor says S5. The only downside is Windoze (why oh why?). I hope its hackable... would be cool to get Linux and/or Android running on this.

Aj.

Date: 6 Dec 2009 20:14:11 +0100
From: K.I. van der Straten <address truncated>
Subject: Ref: New Psion?!

*  Wow, this just came out of nowhere but its exciting!
*  http://psixpda.com/*  Keyboard looks like an S7 but the form factor says S5. The only
*  downside is Windoze (why oh why?). I hope its hackable... would be
*  cool to get Linux and/or Android running on this.

Yes it looks nice, but they said that you can work 2 till 4 hours on a battery.
I think that's in practice 1,5 hours at the maximum
And then the screen resolution 1386 x 768 in a 4,8" screen, that's VERY tiny.
It looks nice, but the price around the 500 Euro, then I think, that I prefer a 12" netBook for the same price.

Regards,
Kees.