OT - Palm Pilots

dogscoff · #1 November 12th, 2002, 05:40 PM

Apart from serving as a source of peurile "Palm Pilot" jokes, what good are these things? What can you actually do with them? Can you do any worthwhile computing without a keyboard or is it just a glorified AddressBook & diary?

Growltigga · #2 November 12th, 2002, 05:43 PM

Dogscoff, they appear to be the modern equivalent of filofaxes (I have one but it is now about 18 inches thick).. I would simply use it as just a glorified Calendar and address book

Ragnarok · #3 November 12th, 2002, 05:58 PM

without a keyboard or is it just a glorified AddressBook & diary?

You can get portable key Boards for them that fold up to the size of a palm pilot. Go here to get a palm pilot. It's a pretty good site.

If you're wondering no I didn't design it. But I will be re-designing it in the future.

[ November 12, 2002, 15:59: Message edited by: Ragnarok ]

dogscoff · #4 November 12th, 2002, 06:01 PM

I quite fancy one of those new tablet/ notebook hybrids that are just coming out now. Kind of like having a full spec PC in a sort of clipboard shell.

It uses a stylus and handwriting recognition instead of a keyboard but I think some of them have keyBoards too, and you could certainly plug one in.

Ragnarok · #5 November 12th, 2002, 06:29 PM

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
I quite fancy one of those new tablet/ notebook hybrids that are just coming out now. Kind of like having a full spec PC in a sort of clipboard shell.

It uses a stylus and handwriting recognition instead of a keyboard but I think some of them have keyBoards too, and you could certainly plug one in.

Yes indeed. My dad has one of those. It's pretty nice. It's a little bit thicker then a clip-board but it's still rather thin. Like you said it used a stylus and my dad has a keyboard for it. It's pretty fast too.

Trajan · #6 November 12th, 2002, 06:30 PM

I have had my Handspring Visor for 2 years and have found many many uses for it. Mostly I use it for note taking while in meetings. The ability to sync it to my MS Outlook is critical. All my notes are copied from the Visor to the Outlook Notes -- which is very useful.

Additionally, I use it for the AvantGo features of downloading the NY Times front page (great bathroom reading), the Vintage program which I use to track my wine inventory, the Calendar and address features, and finally...Dope Wars!

I expect I will upgrade my Visor to something with a Sprint PCS cellphone attached, but I am not in that big of a hurry to spend the money to accomplish this task...yet.

Cheers!

dogscoff · #7 November 12th, 2002, 06:34 PM

how many of them have 802.11 integrated into them? If I could get a machine like that for surfing/ emailing while lounging about the flat that would be really cool...