WOOHOO. My Viewsonic V35 PocketPC just shipped!!! :)

[Random Variable]

I want one of the Viewsonic airpanels. They look hella cool.

 

[erikistired]

i wanna go back to college just so i can walk around campus using a wireless pda surfing the net. you kids these days have all the cool toys. we had, well, shell accounts.

hehe.

~erik

btw that v35 is gorgeous. i'm jealous.

 

[Martin]

Originally posted by: fisher
i wanna go back to college just so i can walk around campus using a wireless pda surfing the net. you kids these days have all the cool toys. we had, well, shell accounts.

hehe.

~erik

btw that v35 is gorgeous. i'm jealous.

we still have shell acounts, they are almost as cool as wireless networks. wget + university connection + list of FTPs =.......err.. fast downloads of Linux ISOs..amongst other things. 😉

 

[Martin]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: MartyTheManiak
Yeah, PPCs have been getting better and better all the time....

If I have enough money next year (september), I would like to buy one with built in 802.11a (UofT is installing a wireles network throughout the campus🙂), perhaps bluetooth and lots of memory (perhaps 256mb). That would be sweet....

I am hoping next-gen (or iteration or whatever) PPCs are even more Full of features and much cheaper than today.



Also, I am very curious to see what Palm has up their sleaves with PalmOS 6. I know many of you will just

, but rumours have it that the BeOS team is working on it and the chances of them producing somethign that can compete with PPC2002 are high.

Well, by the time PalmOS 6 gets here, PocketPCs will be using Windows CE.NET. Palm is aiming at a moving target 😉

I looked at this article on PalmOS6 and this article on CE.NET and it seems the planned features for both are almost the same. (of course, CE.NET has more stuff, but it is deisnged to run larger devices, such as kiosks and tablets. A PDA doesn't have any use for IDE drivers)

So we'll just have to wait and see if both can deliver and what hardware manufacturers and software developers will do with all the new features. But please, look at both objectively, don't be a fanboy.