This post is being written and posted from my Palm m515 and my Startac. I love technology
Dang. I thought this was going to be about the real PDA.
That’s right. Public Display of Annoyance. I’m all about it. Complaining loudly and sending small spittle projectiles into the surrounding atmosphere is one of my numerous humanitarian hobbies.
To continue from my desktop (because I didn’t want to spend the time it would take to write the whole damned thing in graffiti), I got a cable that connects my Palm to my mobile phone. I can surf the web anywhere that I have digital service on my phone. For a guy who grew up amazed at Pong, the VIC20, and Pac-Man, this is a development in technology that continues to boggle my mind, or at least impress me.
After all, most people my age (33) grew up with 3, maybe 4, channels on TV and rabbit ears covered with foil and being our dads’ living remote controls; we saw the first publically available VCRs, and they were big and crappy; we saw the first publically available microwaves, and they were big and crappy; we’ve gone from TRS-80s to Apple IIs to 8086s to Pentium 73,000,000 or whatever it is. And I can now, a mere 20 years or so later, make a post to an internet message board using two items, both of which are smaller than my hand, and neither of which are physically attached to anything.
Just had to share my wonder and awe.
Yeah, PDAs are nice, but I recently bought an ergonomic keyboard…
:: pauses in awe to stroke keyboard gently::
Been there, done that, too tough to type one-handed.
I’ve got a Sony Clié N770 and a nokia 8210e; it’s nice to be able to fire off a quick email on the move.
stofsky: what browser do you use on your M515?
For now I’ve got the Eudora Internet Suite. I’ve got some more research to do to find the best one.
Recent scene from Arnold’s past: My wife is talking with a (female) friend of hers and when I join them the friend asks me “How do you feel about PDAs?” I start explaining how I could not justify the cost to myself, but the handwriting technology is getting better and now I hear they have some colour screens etc. etc.
After giving me a few confused looks the women explain to me that “PDA” means Public Display of Affection and the conversation degenerates into a biased and sexist discussion of the supposed difference in mental make-up between the male and female sex.
stofsky - how does the SDMB look from a PDA? I find it hard to imagine that your screen would show enough of the page to make it easy to use.
I use EudoraWeb too.
Arnold; it’s all text (in that particular browser) and yes, you don’t get a lot of it on the screen at any one time, but it’s pretty usable for some things; many sites (like the online yellow pages) have a specific PDA-friendly URL.
I’ve tried all of the other browsers available for palm; the graphical ones (Palmscape, Blazer) usually don’t work too well as they scale the images down (often on a proxy server) and they always seem to try to fit the entire width on the screen with no horizontal scroll bar.
I don’t think there’s a palmOS browser that supports frames yet.
I find that EudoraWeb sometimes gives up retrieving the page if it’s very long.
Mangetout, I’m having trouble getting hotmail to cooperate. Any suggestions?