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| #1 By 116 (66.68.134.68) at Monday, September 03, 2001 12:32:32 PM |
| Does anyone have some good info about Merlin the new PocketPC based OS? |
| #2 By 1169 (62.128.210.235) at Friday, September 07, 2001 12:43:47 PM |
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I imagine you have seen by now the screenshots from the MS site. PocketPC 2001 looks a bit like XP, and incorporates some 'cute' add-ons. What MS has not done is approach the whole isue from simplicity. Many people left the CE platform because they did not wanted to click on a menu and wade through options to get the calendar, and because none of the CE offerings (pocket PC included) could fit on a pocket (look at the visor edge or the palm V, that's the idea). Again, it will take MS several tries. Look at windows, to actualy catch up with the MacOS in 'usability' we had to wait for XP (6 tries!) before we actually can say 'bye bye MacOS, you have very little to offer now!'.
I am not at all excited about merlin, for a pocket device it is still has too much of a 'desktop' concept tied to it. |
| #3 By 1169 (212.38.182.251) at Saturday, September 08, 2001 10:46:10 AM |
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I agre with the lack of today on Pockect PC. Mind you, I sold my Jornada 540 to buy a visor edge, the 540 was bulky and cumbersome, plus th colour screen fiasco.
As for the drop down menu, I just feel that emulating the desktop OS is the wrong way ahead for palm size devices. I don't want to haul around a laptop on my palm, the idea of the palm size is that you get much functionality quikly ad clearly, given the screen real state. Maybe it was the slowness of the Jornada that drove me crazy, why give a media player to play MPe's that skips if I call up my calendar because of memory? Also, look a the prices, the new Jornada is up around 599 and 690 dollars!, palm and visors will always take the entry an student markets. Also, if you look at the design, why on earth is there so much more to the device after the screen?, huge round buttons and such, make it slim wit small buttons, I don't need a huge round button in the middle, I rather fit it in the inside pocket of my jacket without having to ster to the opposite side to keep the balance. Overall, I haveto say, I used the Ipaq once, and it was nice, maybe cut off some of those roud edges and give me a yet slimer machinne and I see th benefits |
| #4 By 116 (66.68.134.68) at Sunday, September 16, 2001 11:03:33 AM |
| Palm is good for some, for others Pocket PC is the way to go. For me its Pocket PC. And yes those screen shots are awesome. I can't believe they put terminal services in there. That is awesome! |
