RE: [linuxce-devel] Re: Re: [Yopy-general] Has anything changed in release of Yopy?

Which brings to the point the excellent design that both the Apple Newton
MP2x00 and the HP Omnigo100 had and that I'm still waiting to see
replicated... why is it so hard to have a keyboard that slips back if I want
to use the unit in portrait mode (Omnigo 100/110)? Why is it so hard to have
a BIG screen and two PCMCIA slots on the machine (MP 2x000)? Oh yeah...
cost...

The iPAQ and the Yopy are shaping to be two great units but there's still
some missing features (See above) to make me sell my possessions, run and
buy one :(

Who knows... someday, someone will design something with all the features I
seek

Stefan

----- Original Message -----
From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
To: <yopy-general@gmate.co.kr>; <handhelds@handhelds.org>;
<linuxce-devel@linuxce.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 6:57 AM
Subject: [linuxce-devel] Re: [Handhelds] Re: [Yopy-general] Has anything
changed in release of Yopy?

> Jim Gettys writes:
> > > Sender: handhelds-admin@handhelds.org
> > > From: Russell Nelson <nelson@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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