Re: [NTLK] OT: Sort-of Right Device

On Mar 27, 2007, at 9:07 PM, Grubic, James wrote:

> I'm still waiting for a PDA with a hard drive. I don't know why
> this so difficult to do.

Like this one?

<http://www.palm.com/us/products/mobilemanagers/lifedrive/>

or one of these in a PDA with a CF slot?

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-CompactFlash-Photo-Storage-ST68022C-RK/
dp/B000BO0SGG

or something like this?

http://www.priorityelectronics.com/toshiba/mk5002mpl.htm

I think the reason for not having (m)any HD PDA's is simply battery
life. On an MP3 player, you can run the HD for a very short time and
buffer the next 10 songs, but on a PDA, the HD has to run all the
time... .

> I have a Palm Treo phone but the OS is primitive. (...) I am not
> sure that I want to run Windows though.

Or you go really experimental and put Linux on the iPod or iPod nano.
Then you have a good OS, a large harddisk (or 8GB of solid state),
audio and video playback, games (including Doom), etc. etc. ;-)

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