[Shotimes] RE: Not OT, thinking of getting a PDA (well, it really is OT)

[Michael]

 In my opinion, I'd stay away from Palm if you plan to write applications yourself. I've programmed for both Windows CE and Palm OS, and WinCE is much easier to code under. PocketPC's (on which Windows CE v3.0 is now running) are becoming quite widespread. As far as I can tell, PocketPC will soon take over completely. Palm devices are loosing market share. PocketPC's also seem to be faster. Finally, the competetion between the many PocketPC makers is stiff. Thus, you should be able to get a PocketPC at a reasonable price.

---Michael
94MTX,green,BOS+ --- On Thu 01/02, Ron Porter  wrote:From: Ron Porter [mailto: ronporter@prodigy.net]To: TechSHO@topica.com     Cc: shotimes@autox.team.netDate: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 21:14:57 -0500Subject: [Shotimes] RE: Not OT, thinking of getting a PDA (well, it really is OT)Boy, this is a tough one! I say that because I just donated my "stone age"PDA to the Salvation Army before the end of the year (FWIW, it was theoriginal Handspring Visor Deluxe with 8MB memory). I'm looking around foranother. I do like Visors (and the whole Visor deal with the company), butPalms PDAs looking good, also. The Palm operating system is still Boss Dogin PDAs, Windows Pocket PCs just have not got the market attention andsaturation that PDAs with the Palm OS do.Do some poking around, you may very well find that the current Palm OS willdo more than you can find for the Pocket PC. Palm PDAs also use compact SDmemory cards. I don't recall any Compaq Flash cards, and if there are any,they may not become an ongoing standard (IMNSHO Caveat: other than Compaqservers, their other stuff SUCKS, and is to be avoided).FWIW, I still haven't decided. We are considering a new Dell laptop forhome, and they have some deals on their Pocket PC PDAs, but I'm stillleaning toward a Palm OS.......Ron Porter-----Original Message-----From: Ian Fisher [mailto:ianf@eden.rutgers.edu]Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:51 PMTo: TechSHO@topica.comSubject: Not OT, thinking of getting a PDAMy sister got me a PDA for x-mas/birthday. I never though of owning one,but now that I am, I returned the one she got me so I can get somethingbetter (she understood). I realized tonight that PDA's could be used forin car programming. Palm OS is probably out of the question, but thePDA's that are running Windows CE or pocket PC (whatever its called)might be capable of running the windows based programming utilities.(might need some work to make them compatible; I am not really familiarwith this concept). Another great idea would be to use the PDA as a codescanner, but I doubt that Snap on or anyone else is releasing sourcecode to turn PDA's into code readers. FWIW, I am thinking of gettingsomething that utilizes Compaq Flash in case I get a digital camera aswell (I am finding that Compaq Flash memory cards are more widely usedthan other formats.)..any comments on the in car programming thing? Idoubt its something I'd get into right away, but if the option existsdown the road, it would be nice to have that option to see if I can blowthe motor up.Ian_______________________________________________Shotimes mailing listShotimes@autox.team.nethttp://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo/shotimes

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