29 Sep
2005
29 Sep
'05
12:19 p.m.
Liam Proven wrote:
The Kyocera is a PDA and a phone. It runs PalmOS.
My Kyocera 7135
has all the features you listed,
Never heard of it.
[Googles]
No it bloody well doesn't.
The Psion 5/5mx & Ericsson MC218 weren't phones, they were PDAs. The
best PDA made so far. Your phone doesn't have a keyboard at all; it has
a key*pad*. The
Psion has a three-quarter size full-travel QWERTY keyboard upon which
it's possible to touchtype.
No, my palmtop has a *keyboard*. It's external, but it has one. And
it's full size with full travel and tactile feedback. Folds out. Folds
down to the same size as the palmtop.
Your phone has a stamp-sized screen, albeit in colour.
But who /needs/
colour? The Psion has a 640x240, half-VGA mono LCD. Kinda green by
today's standards but excellent for 1998.
The screen is small, but it's nowhere near "stamp-sized". It's 160x160
3" or thereabouts. I can read it at arm's length without any difficulty.
A proper, smooth, very fast, well-integrated
multitasking OS with
basic memory protection.
This, it doesn't have. Doesn't really have memory protection.
Accepts up to a gig of storage on CF.
I have *2GB* in it right now. SD card.
Doesn't sync well to a PC, but you never needed
to. The Psion /was/
your PIM. You could both file-transfer and simply cut&paste between
Psion and Windows. Multitasked with all PC apps and OSs, and Mac and
Linux too.
I sync mine to a PC and a Mac. Works fine on both. Plus mine has an
MP3 player with decent sound.
They were wonderful little machines. Never really took
off in the US,
like so much non-US tech. But then, I wondered around Colorado with my
Newton 2100 in '99 or so and all the Murricans were amazed by my cool
foreign toy. :?(
Calm down. I never said I didn't like EPOC. I do. I'm just saying
my Palm is quite featureful.
Peace... Sridhar