Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 05, 2002 08:55 AM
would like to have the ability to jump to a category with one or maybe two taps
Depending on how MANY categories you have, it should just be a matter of pulling down the category menu at the top, and tapping the one you want. With too many, though, I recall it pops up a separate window with categories in a scrolling select field.
You also forgot to mention one neat feature missing in PalmOS: items can be in multiple categories. Categories can be shared between applications! (So I have "Work" phone numbers, to-do items, and calendar events. Some of my coworkers are also my friends, so they're in both "Work" and "Friends")
The handwriting recognition is pretty good, I just have to un-teach myself Palm Graffiti.
Why not just teach the Zaurus Grafitti? The HWR is fully trainable. You also forgot to mention that HWR, on-screen keyboard, and pickboard all do word-completion!
Opera (haven't played with that yet)
*GASP!* Opera's EXCELLENT. I can't imagine how I lived with iSilo on my Palm. And the since it's a desktop-quality browser, and visits the same webpages your desktop browser does, it's zoom-out feature (also available in Konqueror/embedded for the Zaurus) is a godsend!!
Media Player (MP3s and Mpeg1 movie playback, very nice, I love this!)
I'm not sure if it's officially available yet (but I have an IPK of it), but you can also play MPEG4 video. I calculated at the Zaurus's screensize, and at the compression rate a sample ASF file was getting, that I could store at least 22mins of video on my 64MB CF card. That'd be a sitcom, minus the commercials. W00T!
a terminal window (hey it's Linux -- I need my command line)
Why stop with one? Go grab embedded-konsole and you'll have a tabbed environment, just like Konsole on the desktop!
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 05, 2002 08:55 AMDepending on how MANY categories you have, it should just be a matter of pulling down the category menu at the top, and tapping the one you want. With too many, though, I recall it pops up a separate window with categories in a scrolling select field.
You also forgot to mention one neat feature missing in PalmOS: items can be in multiple categories. Categories can be shared between applications! (So I have "Work" phone numbers, to-do items, and calendar events. Some of my coworkers are also my friends, so they're in both "Work" and "Friends")
The handwriting recognition is pretty good, I just have to un-teach myself Palm Graffiti.
Why not just teach the Zaurus Grafitti? The HWR is fully trainable. You also forgot to mention that HWR, on-screen keyboard, and pickboard all do word-completion!
Opera (haven't played with that yet)
*GASP!* Opera's EXCELLENT. I can't imagine how I lived with iSilo on my Palm. And the since it's a desktop-quality browser, and visits the same webpages your desktop browser does, it's zoom-out feature (also available in Konqueror/embedded for the Zaurus) is a godsend!!
Media Player (MP3s and Mpeg1 movie playback, very nice, I love this!)
I'm not sure if it's officially available yet (but I have an IPK of it), but you can also play MPEG4 video. I calculated at the Zaurus's screensize, and at the compression rate a sample ASF file was getting, that I could store at least 22mins of video on my 64MB CF card. That'd be a sitcom, minus the commercials. W00T!
a terminal window (hey it's Linux -- I need my command line)
Why stop with one? Go grab embedded-konsole and you'll have a tabbed environment, just like Konsole on the desktop!
Anyway... good review! Thanks!
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