Good screen plus long battery life possible?

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Paul Murray <paul@murray.net> wrote in message
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> Is there anything out there that fits my requirements, or should I stick
> with the old-tech?

It's not Palm-based, but how about this?

http://www.ebookwise.com/servlet/m [...] 7007&si=43

I forget what the original price was, but this price is very nice. I'm
thinking of getting one even though I already have a Palm. Luckily, in many
cases, the books I bought can be downloaded in this format without having
to pay again.

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Paul Murray <paul@murray.net> wrote:
>I use a PDA almost exclusively for reading eBooks. Currently I use a
>Handspring Visor Deluxe with MemPlug attachment for reading books from
>memory cards. With this I can get 10+ hours use out a set of rechargeable
>batteries, then swap for another set if needed. I can even back it up onto
>the memory card and restore if the batteries do run right down.
>
>I seriously like the look of the higher-res screens, and the idea of a
>virtual graffiti area I can turn off (as I never actually type into it
>anyway). But all the modern PDAs seem to have built-in batteries and battery
>life of 4-5 hours if you are lucky. That's no good for a plane ride.
>
>What I'm looking for is:
>
>1) Long battery life, ideally at least 10 hours if not more
>2) Higher res screen (ideally 320x480), don't need colour
>3) Physically larger screen (like the T3 with its pull-out bit)
>4) Ability to read some sort of memory card (maybe not needed if at least
>64Mb of base memory)
>
Except for the battery life thing, pretty much any of the modern PDAs will fit
the bill.

You may want to look at how readable some of the PDAs are without the backlight
on -- it's the backlight on the color screens that seriously kills the battery
life.

Otherwise, you're either looking staying with the old Handspring, or buying a
battery extender (basically, a dingus that holds regular batteries and attaches
to the PDA through the charging interface).

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Let me reply to Tony's question,

>Can you elaborate how you use this? Sounds like it could be interesting.

by saying first and foremost I can't be sure a Palm won't do this.

My therapist (T) works privately. My employment counselor (EC) works with
email, fax, calls, and meetings. EC asked for an appointment with T and we made
a tentative appointment, but I could not issue an email meeting request to T as
my communication with her is private. Her company's PIHI policy is no email
whatsoever between cleints and staff.

So in the presence of extreme frustration and the prospect of multiple rounds
of voice mail tag-your're-it, I had an insight, and copied the tentative
appointment from the Calendar to the Notes for my next appointment with T,
thereby making a topic for that meeting the pending appointment. It was a work
around.

Here's the actual Note:

Starts: 9:30 AM 2004-11-23
Ends: 10:30 AM 2004-11-23

Description: No subject
Location: (I deleted this. I use phone numbers in this field)
Notes:

It was an impulse, but it just felt *good* to try something and have the system
just do the right thing.

The system appears to have copied the whole appointment object, not just the
topic.


>Not sure I understand why this is a good thing? With a Palm I can copy one
>appointment to another time slot using cut and paste.

OK, I do that. So we can both do that.

>I can copy the
>topic to the Notes for the second appointment yet still have a separate
>title/topic for the second appointment.

That sounds like a text-field copy. What I'm saying is in CE I took a struct
and pasted it into a text editor, and it didn't crash or do something weird, it
just parsed it and let me do what I was trying to do.

Could you try this, TC?

Copy an appointment to the buffer, then open the Notes in *the same
appointment* and Paste.

What I get is the date and time as above and a *second* copy of the Note for
that appointment, making two copies total: what was there, and a copy pasted as
part of the whole appointment.

What do you get?

(Don't do this with a long note. What's long? Up to you.)

This is great fun and I hope the OP doesn't mind. For ebooks, a 1550 is surely
the thing. 14 hour battery. I forget if it takes a 1/8 inch stereo or mono
phone jack.

I got the 2130 because it has a mic input, that is, a headset jack (3/32 inch,
2.5 mm), and I record stuff. I can jack my piezo dot on the guitar right into
the 2130 and record at CD quality with a little AVC pumping. Usually I go 8000
Hz for telephone compatibility. I have nine jukes on my answering machine, on
this Aptiva. Everything from On Top of Old Smokey to Capricho Arabe and a
Bulerias.

If any of you would like to hear these ( some were recorded on the palmtop, one
was recorded over a cell phone) please email me for my phone number. I digress
from the OP, am OT, and apologize.


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