foo fighter
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Originally posted by Guido:
what a chore!!! What took us 2-3 hours on a laptop, took 5.5 hours on the Jornada
Agreed, a Laptop or keyboard equiped handheld would have been much better suited to this task. However, if your trying to imply that a Visor/Palm would have worked better, your dead wrong. Entering this "Numerical data" you were working on would have been equally unpleasant with your Visor. The reason is simple: Palm size handhelds (including the Pocket PC and Visor) are not designed to enter large amounts of information. Their primary use is for viewing or jotting down small bits of information such as phone numbers, notes, memos, and so forth. They were never intended for extensive data entry.
And, your right, the Visor fills in the "gray area" between a Pocket PC and a Palm device. However, there are certain tasks that Pocket PCs perform much better than any Palm or Visor, such as digital audio and multimedia (both the Palm and Visor have no multimedia capabilities at all), display readability (Palm resolution is too low), true ebook capability (something no current Palm OS device can touch), and an open form of expansion (PPC uses industry standard Compact Flash, while the Visor uses a proprietary format).
I own the Jornada 545, and I can't stress enough how I hate that damn "popsicle stylus". But that's a minor complaint, in fact I usually carry a Palm III stylus to use instead of the default stylus. However, that is no reason to condemn the entire Pocket PC platform. I could easily make the same argument for the Visor's cheap toothpick sytlus, but does that give me the right to say..."I would never own a PalmOS device becuase the Visor has a stylus that is cheap and difficult to use".
The best part of the current handheld market is that there is something for every type of user. For some consumers, a Palm or a Visor simply isn't funtional enough. For example I love the ability to listen to digital audio music on my Pocket PC. The Visor doesn't have this capability. It requires the purchase of a rather expensive Springboard module that will cost as much as the Visor itself, and in my opinion, a handheld should have this funtionality out of the box.
To each his own!
[This message has been edited by foo fighter (edited 05-31-2000).]
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