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Christian Graus wrote:
A Palm, unlike a WinCE device, fits nicely in a suit or shirt pocket, but not in jeans.
I never wear shirts, just hate them 
And a Palm is too big to be in a pocket in my pants (not Jeans, but I dont know what they are called in english, the same pants as with a suit)
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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Have you seen the new Handspring Treo 600(I think that's the number)? It is VERY small and still has all the functionality of the Palm and a phone all in one. Including looking like it would fit in pockets really well.
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philip_love wrote:
Do you get frustrated with the short battery life on the new WinCE devices (down to about 18hrs on the latest toshiba's - compared to a couple of weeks for the palms). WinCE = a more MHz = less battery life.
18 hours for a PocketPC, nice 
2 weeks for a Palm, yea, but it's only for normal use, which is under one hour a day.
It's not like you can have your Palm turned on for 2 weeks
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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The most expensive way to play Solitaire
I own two handhelds actually. An HP CE device (from back when they had keyboards), and a Palm Vx. I bought the CE and I actually did use it for a few months when I was on a project with lots of responsibilities. But since that project ended, I barely used it. It's now sitting in a drawer next to the batteries.
I won the Palm in a contest and have never used it, aside from playing Sub Hunt on a train trip to San Jose. The screen is now busted (no idea how, it certainly didn't wear out ) and doesn't register taps in the right location, so it's unusable.
I'm just not important enough to need to carry an organizer with me, nor do I have so many contacts that I need a mobile address book.
--Mike--
"I'm working really, really fast at the moment, so a 3 minute outage becomes, due to time dilation, a 5 minute outage."
-- Chris Maunder, relativistic system administrator
Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber
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My thoughts exactly. For me cost is also a factor - it just seems wrong to spend $200 on what's really not much more than a fancy organizer. If they cost less than $50 (new), I might consider.
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
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Well if you want to unload any extra hardware I could take it off your hands for you 
Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179
"Two things have come out of Berkley, Unix and Acid, we do not belive this to be a coincidence"
Linux sucks twice as fast and 10 times more reliably, and since you have the source, it's your fault. -Ca1v1n
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You want a Palm with a busted screen?
--Mike--
"I'm working really, really fast at the moment, so a 3 minute outage becomes, due to time dilation, a 5 minute outage."
-- Chris Maunder, relativistic system administrator
Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber
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Michael Dunn wrote:
You want a Palm with a busted screen?
I've always wanted an out of the ordinary coaster anyway (come to think of it thats all I'd use a new Palm handheld for), but that CE device could find a good home over here 
Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179
"Two things have come out of Berkley, Unix and Acid, we do not belive this to be a coincidence"
Linux sucks twice as fast and 10 times more reliably, and since you have the source, it's your fault. -Ca1v1n
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Michael Dunn wrote:
I'm just not important enough to need to carry an organizer with me, nor do I have so many contacts that I need a mobile address book.
That's just like me!
I won my Toshiba at a Microsoft tech-talk, and I figured: "wtf am i going do with this?" But then I discovered the wonderful world of electronic books. So that's basically the what I use my PPC for. And once my memory card arrives, then I can change it into a very-over-powered MP3-player. 
Michael Dunn wrote:
Sub Hunt
Is that like Battleship?
I prefer to wear gloves when using it, but that's merely a matter of personal hygiene
[Roger Wright on VB]
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
[Rich Cook]
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The only decent hand-held I've seen yet
Michael
'War is at best barbarism...Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.' - General William Sherman, 1879
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As soon as they allow it to sync with Outlook I'll add it to the list
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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If there is a an SDK for Gameboy available, we should definetly write an interface for it!;P
ES
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Somebody should start an open-source initiative to get .net compact running on it.
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Not becuase I want to vote for CListCtrl... but what if my choice is 'None' (or something else not on the list)?
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
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The point is that if you had to choose an OS for your device, which would it be?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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But, I don't want a handheld device to begin with. I'm so stuck. 
--
Now we live in a world of uncertainty
Fear is the key - to what you want to be
You don't get a say, the majority gets it's way
You're outnumbered by the bastards till the day you die...
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If you dont want a handheld, you should not vote, otherwise it will mess the statistics 
ES
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But the answer "none" gives additional information about
how a lot people really have handheld and what it means 54.3 for
Windows Mobile. And info about are another OS have chance
to run down Windows Mobile.
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Ah, now understand, my English, sorry...
But I'm sure now time for another poll:
What position you had to choose if you had possibility
to do it:
- Chairman
- CEO
- President
- Programmer
It is especially important for codeproject future direction.
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Jeez you people can make something so simple into a complicated issue that requires FOUR entries into the discussion thread. No wonder regular people can't figure us out!
If you don't get it don't vote, it's that simple!
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 Maybe you should try paying attention from now on
Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179
"Two things have come out of Berkley, Unix and Acid, we do not belive this to be a coincidence"
Linux sucks twice as fast and 10 times more reliably, and since you have the source, it's your fault. -Ca1v1n
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Noooooo You guys are not sucking me in to a chain of snide remarks and condescending attitudes. And it's HANDhelds, not hendhelds. Another reason real people think we techies are out of touch. Learn to spell! What they didn't teach that at MIT (or wherever)?;P
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I was just going to ignore this because it is clear you are either trolling or just not paying attention to anything.
First it is handhelds or Handhelds if placed at the beginning of the sentence. Not HANDhelds. Second nobody cares if a simple spelling mistake was made. We're all human and we all make mistakes. A small spelling error does not classify people as out of touch. I think the reason people think techies are out touch is because you. And if your spelling is so perfect you would have known that No is spelled with just one o.
Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179
"Two things have come out of Berkley, Unix and Acid, we do not belive this to be a coincidence"
Linux sucks twice as fast and 10 times more reliably, and since you have the source, it's your fault. -Ca1v1n
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I spelled it that way to highlight the misspelled word. And the reason I wrote Nooooo it to try to emulate the sound I was making. It is called artistic license as opposed to error. Spelling may not matter in this type of thing, but it does matter in general. I once had to modify an entire system I inherited years ago (1980's) written in COBOL because the guy before me misspelled the word "vendor" as "vender" throughout the system, in literally thousands of instances, both in code and in the character-based user interface. Do you know how bad that makes us look to users and managers in the business world? It does seem that things like spelling and (yipes!) penmanship and other basic skills once accepted as essential to success in the world have slipped in importance. Perhaps this is due to computerization or just laziness, who knows. Nevertheless I feel it does diminish the human experience, and I regret it's demise. Imagine if the writers of the Declaration of Independence had the same attitude?
Well, I understand, anyway. Sorry if I offended.
Bob Howell
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I totally agree.
Hey, if you don't want to write wait for the next pool next week!!!
Just three words: void main(void)
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