On 18 Feb 2010, The Digest Craig Caroll <address truncated> wrote:
> I say this due to lack of rich applications such as office editors, no sat
> nav, weak pim software and syncing with online services such as google and
> exchange is weak.
To be fair, Psion did not have sat nav built-in either. Nokia did have satnav for the N810 - dont know if they plan to release that for the N900.
I dont drive much, so have very little need for satnav personally.
What does 'weak PIM' actually mean? Define what you mean by syncing with Google - sync what exactly?
> Whilst you gain in other areas such as internet browser, social media and
> technical specification others areas are weak.
Having a decent web browser is a big win - the Psion browser was so very limited. Being able to use full web-based apps is a big plus.
> You could always use the browser for rich applications but again you cannot
> beat native applications.
Again, a big win: Google Maps has more functionality than Maemo Mapper.
You're also glossing over things like PDF viewing, reading RSS feeds,
viewing images and video, listening to music, etc. These are all things
that were either not possible, extremely slow or just a terrible
experience on Psion.
> For programming python is being used extensively, but again as I have not used
> this language I cannot comment on the development tools.
You have a choice of C, C++, Python, Ruby, etc. Its also possible to build
apps using web technology that run locally on the device. More languages / technology = more choice = potentially more developers.
Aj.
Hello from a long-time lurker!
Does anyone have/can point me to the english Wikipedia database in Psion-compatible Tomeraider 2 format?
It was downloadable from
http://www.infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/index.htmlsome years ago (circa 2003), but the website no longer hosts the files.
A newer
- and much larger
- TR3 file is available from Tomeraider, but this is not compatible with the Psion reader, and converting that to TR2 format gives unusable results.
IIRC, it was a rather large file, 300MiB or so.
Many thanks
Rob