[clug] Modern palmtop

Adam Baxter voltagex at voltagex.org
Sun Feb 14 00:23:41 MST 2010


Perhaps the precursor to the N900, the N800, with a bluetooth keyboard?

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Ben Nizette <bn at niasdigital.com> wrote:

>
> On 14/02/2010, at 3:59 PM, Andrew Janke wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 13:59, steve jenkin <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au>
> wrote:
> >> They also reviewed "hand-wound" cell phone chargers.
> >> My take: don't bother... "Fingers got sore after 2 minutes" [into a dead
> >> battery]
> >
> > And on this note if _all_ you really want to do is type up notes,
> > perhaps consider a smartphone. Much less power required and with an
> > external bluetooth keyboard than can be quite handy to type up simple
> > stuff. Solar phone chargers are certainly available.
> >
> > I have used the internal quickoffice thing in my Nokia E71 like this
> > quite successfully.  And used Putty connected via SSH to the work
> > machine running vi! :)
> >
> > Granted the small screen on the E71 is not crash hot for this sort of
> > thing but there are other devics with much larger screens about that
> > might do the trick.
>
> Yeah I guess the smartphone killed the palmtop and could probably be used
> to replace it in this instance.  Certainly the bluetooth keyboard sounds
> like a good plan, thanks!
>
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