On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, K.I. van der Straten <address truncated> wrote:
> Yes it looks nice, but they said that you can work 2 till 4 hours on a > battery.
That's probably because its running regular Windoze...
> 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.
I imagine you can adjust that. My Nokia N810 is 4.13" 800x480px and is still very readable.
> It looks nice, but the price around the 500 Euro, then I think, that I prefer
> a 12" netBook for the same price.
Different horses for different courses.
Aj.
Ajai Khattri wrote:
> 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.
This is being pitched as a Psion successor, but I don't know what they were smoking when they chose Windows XP (!!!) as the OS. Half of the joy of Psions was that they were instant-on, which XP will never be. So it will be no use as a PDA! (despite being called a PsiXpda)
K.I. van der Straten wrote:
> 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
Oh dear, it just gets worse. Another joy of Psions was their looong battery life. 1.5 hours is essentially useless (except as a toy), and why I splashed-out on a Panasonic laptop with a battery life of 6-8 hours (Psion 7-like).
I really think they should have used an ARM processor (huge battery life), and picked a version of Linux (Nokia's Maemo looks good). As it stands, I think I'd rather buy a Pandora than a PsiXpda...
Regards,
Chris Handley
Dear Kees,
Kees wrote
> 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.
I went to the web site and found this page that says the screen resolution is 800 x 480 which sounds reasonable for its size. May I
know where did you get your information from?
http://psixpda.com/content/psixpda-pocket-computer
It is based on an Intel Atom processor which means there is a good
chance of being able to install Linux on it.
Cheers,
Koi Hin
Koi Hin wrote:
* I went to the web site and found this page that says the screen
* resolution is 800 x 480 which sounds reasonable for its size. May I
* know where did you get your information from?
Yes my mistake it's a resolution of 800 x 480
The Sagem Spiga works with a resolution of 1024 x 600
And the 12" netbooks with 1366 x 768
Regards
Kees.