RE: Phones!

Welcome on board.

--George

George France, france@crl.dec.com
Cambridge Research Laboratory, Compaq Computer Corporation
One Cambridgecenter MS: CRL
Cambridge, MA 02142 USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Schechner [mailto:hal-j@palmstation.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 11:27 AM
> To: handhelds@handhelds.org
> Subject: Re: [Handhelds] Phones!
>
>
> First off, I've been lurking a few days, so I'll introduce
> myself as this is the first message I've sent to the group.
>
> I'm Hal Schechner, and I run PalmStation.com (shaddup Hal,
> you're not at a 12step meeting). I was at the PocketPC
> 'seminar' thing that the geek.com article you pointed to
> talks about (in fact, I helped write the article, I'm
> the same Hal Schechner from PalmStation.Com thats in there
> ;) ).
>
> We *did* get to see the Stinger (although we couldnt take
> pictures, and we didn't get any play-time). We did get
> an iPaq and an HP Jornada. The iPaq (and the interest
> I had in seeing linux run on it) is what brought me to
> handhelds.org, and then to this list.
>
> They didn't give us any real info as far as pricing or
> release time goes WRT the Stinger, but I have my concerns
> about it's use of PocketPC/WinCE/Whatever-name-they-use-today.
> IMHO, the PocketPC interface does not translate well to
> a non-touch screen environment (the Stinger is *not*
> touchscreen. It uses various buttons for interaction
> with the OS, and the phone buttons for data entry. [IE:
> Press 2 once for 'a', two times for 'b' etc... along with
> some word completion that allows you to press once for 'b'
> assuming the next letter uniq-ifies the word as a 'b'-starter.
> (ok, that was hard to understand, but you get the idea)
>
> Anyway, figured I'd give my input on the stinger and let
> you all know I was here ;)
>
> -Hal
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Hal Schechner
> hal-j@palmstation.com
> http://www.palmstation.com
> _The_ place for up to date Palm/Pilot info
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>
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 Tom_Kirksey@ingersoll-rand.com wrote:
>
> >
> > It looks like Visor:
> >
> > http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-2826861-0.html
> >
> > And MS:
> >
> > http://www.geek.com/pdageek/features/pocketpc/index.htm
> >
> > have pda/phones coming out. I hope Compaq has the phone
> sleeve out soon.
> >
> > I got a private email a while back that said (nudge, nudge,
> wink, wink,
> > knowing glance) "Soon". I hope they include a CF slot in
> the phone sleeve.
> > That is pretty much mandatory. The microdrive could run
> all day on a cell
> > battery. :-)
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
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Received on Fri Sep 22 08:45:13 2000