Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/23

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Subject: [Leica] Psion - was "The worst insult..."
From: shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)
Date: Thu Nov 23 08:41:04 2006
References: <C1881FEC.3F020%mark@rabinergroup.com> <ED5CFAB2-7355-437E-B571-9FA173C86735@btinternet.com> <6.2.5.6.2.20061123084338.0315e898@screengang.com> <E1154229-C5A7-459D-B912-B0F0018AC604@btinternet.com> <eecd29524766c045615a22fc44ab8069@woh.rr.com> <6.2.5.6.2.20061123142216.02ed5b00@screengang.com> <b318dcac90032bb05aa539fd9343aa76@woh.rr.com>

ominously, most of the qwerty communicators these days are windoze 
mobile, which i, for one, find discheering.

cingular finally pulled the plug on mobitex service on my trusty, 
lovely RIM 950 (from 1998), so i was recently in the market to find a 
personal communicator.  

despite a lingering feeling of foolishness of owning such a 
hip-hoppy device whose median demographic is perhaps
40% of my age, the Sidekick 3 was my ideal replacement.

nice wide qwerty keyboard, good sized-screen, POP3, I.M. and i can
even ssh to my web server and use it as an ascii terminal.  
strictly no connection to a corporate
outlook server--to me another plus.  finally, it continuously syncs
with the t-mobile servers, so i can access its address books and such
through the web anywhere... no dongles and cables and extra software,
or requirement to have a "mothership" pc somewhere.

and completely and stridently anti-corporate.

-rei


On Nov23 09:29, Rob McClure wrote:
> Hi Didier,
> 
> Palm recently released the Treo 700 with a choice of Palm or Windows 
> software.  It is slightly thinner than previous generations, but uses 
> the same accessories, batteries, etc. as the 600 and 650 (which I own). 
>  My understanding is that the Palm software is being phased-out;  this 
> may be its last gasp.  Apparently it is a victim of corporate Info Tech 
> people who have declared Microsoft to be  the Holy Grail for business 
> use.  I find the Palm software works just fine, synching with my MS 
> Outlook at work and able to pull down Word documents.  It also 
> navigates easier and is more intuitive.
> 
> Rob McClure
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 23, 2006, at 8:27 AM, Didier Ludwig wrote:
> 
> >Palm indeed has plans to implement MS Pocket PC in their smartphones, 
> >als alternative to the Palm OS. I have a Treo600 since 3 years and 
> >except the lack of the UMTS protocol it has everything I need (and 
> >will need for the next years). Palm & Eudora are my companions since 
> >they exist, and I'll prefer to buy a Mac before I switch to MS 
> >Outlook.
> >Didier
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
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-- 
Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey


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