Jim Gettys writes:
> > Sender: handhelds-admin_at_handhelds.org
> > From: Russell Nelson <nelson_at_crynwr.com>
> > > The only problem I have with the existing expansion pack system is that I
> > can't
> > > have BOTH a CF card and a PCMCIA card in at once. But it's not really a BIG
> > > problem.
> >
> > How hard would it have been to build expansion packs that piggybacked?
> > Of course, by the time you hang your 802.11 radio, your GPS receiver,
> > your cellphone, and your 1Gbyte microdrive on the back, you've 1) run
> > out of power, and 2) got a device so thick as to strongly stretch the
> > term "pocket pc".
>
> Why are you using past tense?
Because the design of the plastic sleeve clearly eliminates the
possibility of another sleeve piggybacking on it. Oh, you *could*
design a sleeve the back of which which would be shaped like the iPAQ
body, but *boy* would that make it thick.
No, I'm thinking that the back could have been shaped (warning: cheezy
ASCII graphics follow) like this:
+------------s-c-r-e-e-n------------+
| |
| |
| ( ) IR o |
iPAQ: | |
|_ _|
| |
| |
+---------------------------------+
+- -+
| |
|-----------------------------------|
CF sleeve: |_ _|
| CF SLOT HERE |
| |
+---------------------------------+
If a GPS sleeve was designed with the same shape, you could have your
maps, and know where you are at the same time. As it is, either the
GPS sleeve with need a CF socket, or you'll have to make do with
the internal storage for maps, or you'll have to use an RS-232 GPS.
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