PDA
Everything you ever wanted to do on a Series 60
I’m a fan of Nokia’s Series 60 Symbian phones. I had a 6600 for a while and was quite fond of its chubby little design. Russell Beattie has a review and mega-post on the new 6680, including mini-reviews of just about every app you’ll ever need for a Series 60 device. I highly recommend having [...]
MP3 Player Quality
Something interesting and unexpected: a second-hand iPaq 5450 plays MP3s with much better quality than a dedicated Dell DJ MP3 player. Played through the same set of headphones, the stereo separation and dynamic range are noticeably better from the iPaq. I thought with dedicated hardware the Dell would perform at least as well as the [...]
iPaq + GR230 Bluetooth GPS
Just another bit of gadgetey goodness I whipped up recently. Ingredients as follows: 1 x Second-hand iPaq PDA from your local internet auction site. 1 x Bluetooth GPS receiver from anywhere, but I find Semsons provide excellent service, plus a free PDA mount (like the one pictured) with most purchases. 1 x PocketMV map viewer [...]
Strange Bugs # 234
I got a new 1GB SD card for my pocket pc. Works fine in the PPC, but reports as ‘unformatted’ in the built-in card reader on my HP nx9110 laptop. My first thought was a problem with the card itself, but a quick visit to the HP website reveals: No explanation or anything, just an [...]
Lifedrive Shows Up on Amazon
You’ve gotta wonder what life is like in the marketing department of a gadget maker these days. You can basically count on your products being pre-released by the blogosphere well ahead of your proposed release date. I wonder if they’ve started planning on this stuff happening? In this particular case, it’s images of the new [...]
iPaq hw6500 Pics, Specs
As much as I love dissing on smartphones, I have to say that the iPaq hw6500 is looking like solid gold with a simcard. Take something not much larger than a Treo 650, jam in a GPS module, run it on a real operating system, and you’ve got me salivating. Full specs include GSM/GPRS with [...]
X Marks the LifeDrive?
OK, so maybe LifeDrive was wrong. Brighthand reports that the Palm device with a 4GB hard drive formerly known as the LifeDrive will likely be called the Tungsten X. The report doesn’t mention whether that’s X-for-eXtreme, or X-for-”let’s ride on the coat-tails of Apple”. Personally I would have thought that LifeDrive was a bit more [...]
Palm One LifeDrive
I must have been suffering from some sort of brain disorder yesterday. I’ve scanned over maybe four or five articles about the rumoured Palm One LifeDrive, but it must have fallen through the collander-like membranes of my memory. My initial reaction is to call shenanigans on this one. It looks like someone with an addiction [...]
Microsoft Takes Lead in Buggy Whip Shipments
In news from the wake-me-when-I-should-give-a-damn department, apparently Microsoft overtook Palmsource in PDA shipments for the first time ever during the third quarter of this year. In this article, a particularly insightful Gartner analyst states: Almost!? What planet is that guy from? The Treo 650 is arguably the gold standard when it comes to smartphones, and [...]
Nokia converges convergent devices
In a somewhat recursive move, Nokia has decided to converge their high-end Series 90 operating system with their middle-of-the-road Series 60 system. Basically this will bring multimedia and touchscreen features to the Series 60 OS, enabling more varied application of the currently phone-centric Series 60. As my friend the Palm OS developer always says: PDAs [...]
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