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Epoc Digest Wed, 24 Sep 2003 Volume 01 : Number 347
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In today's Epoc Digest 15 messages:
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- Re: Revo battery problems
- Re: synchro without a serial or Irda port
- netBook & REX6000
- Re: faulty 5mx screen - Bruce Phillips
- UIQ development
- NetBook Power
- RE: Transflective Screen
- RE: Abiword
- ISP Value
- Re: Mystery Crash & Virus
- Airline baggage handling (OT)
- Re: Faulty 5mx screen
- Internet accounts being discontinued by the ISP.
- Faulty 5mx screen & Dana instead of a Sony UX-50
- RE: Sony's Hot Crossover PDA
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Date: 23 Sep 2003 00:16:32 +0100
From: Alan Morris
Subject: Re: Revo battery problems
ian chapple wrote:-
<< Sorry, when I said flaky, I meant PsiWin, not any of the built-in Psion applications, which I have always thought to be second to none. >>
That's Ok then. My opinion is that PsiWin suffers from two types of problem. Those caused by Psion's programers and the majority caused by Micro$oft's programers.
I wonder how many of PsiWin's problems have been deliberatly caused by Micro$oft. They have a vested interest it it being flaky. I remember when Micro$oft introduced a newer version of DOS that had been deliberatly changed so that Lotus 1-2-3 (Sheet) would not run on the new version. There was an uproar at that time.
Windows itself is flaky, so it's not surprising that PsiWin has problems. An advantage of an OS in ROM (as in Psions, except nB) is that it is expencive to correct errors. Those who used Commodore's 2001 8Kb PET may remember the vanishing cursor problem. This was only solved when a new 011 ROM chip (holding Microsoft BASIC) was supplied FOC to customers.
As Windows is continually being corrected by Micro$oft it's unreasonable for Psion to produce newer versions for every change in Windows.
<< However, your solution to the battery issue, ie. using a 3rd party application to monitor the state of the battery, just reinforces the idea that the Revo's own battery management is poor, and can't be relied on. >>
Agreed, but ChaDis is a very simple and easy solution to the problem, which raises the question, "Why didn't Psion put ChaDis into the Revo ROM in later releases?"
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Alan R Morris, G4ENS.
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.
Using a Psion 7 & Nokia 6210e.
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Date: 23 Sep 2003 00:16:47 +0100
From: Alan Morris
Subject: Re: synchro without a serial or Irda port
Martin Guthrie wrote:-
<< The easiest way is to get yourself a USB-serial converter. It provides you with a serial port on the end of a USB connector/cable. >>
That's if you can get it to work. Many, myself included, can't get quality Belkin converters to work with XP.
I now use a USB CF card reader on XP, which does work on all my CF cards from 16Mb to IGb IBM HD. However an old Kodak camera 4Mb does not work.
Martin also wrote;-
<< I wrote a small piece about my experiences for FoxPop >>
and it's very good. Well done Martin.
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Alan R Morris, G4ENS.
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.
Using a Psion 7 & Nokia 6210e.
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Date: 23 Sep 2003 08:02:55 +0100
From: francisco.vegas
Subject: netBook & REX6000
Hy there,
did anyone of you try to sync a XIRCOM REX 6000 with a netBook ?
They would be a nice couple ...
I´m always looking for the perfect companion. The netBook is the
best pda for home work halfway work on the way. But it isn't that
mobile for carrying everywhere.
I found that REX 6000 is a perfect size with even touchscreen !
Possibly someone of you had experiences ...
Vaya con Symbian
Francisco
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Date: 23 Sep 2003 08:31:19 +0100
From: jgthomson
Subject: Re: faulty 5mx screen - Bruce Phillips
Bruce,
Your problem is almost certainly related to a broken ribbon cable, which runs from the motherboard to the screen. The cable doubles over on itself when you shut the case and with continued use over a long period, the flexing breaks the cable. I had the same problem on a 3a I have had since about 1993. My 5mx and my netBook have not
yet suffered though. You need a new cable, which you should be able to get from a psion repair shop in NZ.
Regards,
Jim Thomson.
160 Main Street, Carnwath, Lanark, ML11 8HR.
e-mail address: jgthomson
Tel: 01 555 840 832 / 07 050 074 336
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Date: 23 Sep 2003 11:50:56 +0100
From: Euan Mee
Subject: UIQ development
Does anyone know of an easy intro to developing for the P800?
I'd like to start, but can't see how to get started...
(I'm, already subscribed to the Ericsson developer network email list, but that's not been a great place for bootstrapping from...) Cheers,
Euan
xlucid
this).sf.(antispam.)net
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Date: 23 Sep 2003 11:55:14 +0100
From: Andy Hayes
Subject: NetBook Power
Hi All
I have finally dug out the spare PSU that I brought to Shetland with me and can confirm that the problem is not with the end of the PSU cable as I had hoped, but rather it is with the power connector within the netBook. The cable often needs a bit of a wiggle to get the light to come on. A service manager that I worked for used to tell me that it was always the simple things that went wrong, normally when I had something in a million pieces on the floor! I was panicking about how I was going to manage to finance a new netPad or a netBook, but a freak brainwave (they get freakier as you get older I have found!) suggested that I just blew in the power socket. Well it is at least a 90% improvement on what I had before. To add to the feelings of elation, I was bemoaning my problems to a relative and they took pity and mentioned a little gift would be in the post. Perhaps I should not get excited, the last person to give me a little gift 'to help me make a start in Shetland' handed me a packet of carrot seeds and suggested that I start from scratch!
Andy Hayes
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Date: 23 Sep 2003 11:58:07 +0100
From: David Steer \(Plus\)
Subject: RE: Transflective Screen
Andy,
I have 6 (!) Netpads in the office (all running CE.net :0(). However, screen visibility is excelent indors and in low light. The screen has a backlight which can be turned on or off - Off for bright sunlight and on for indoors! It is a great machine. Just one issue - there is no keyboard and I don't know of an add on to allow one. There is an on-screen keyboard and an application such as Handright (www.palmanac.co.uk) which can be used unregistered with only the Macro facility disabled. Also, with a 206mhz processor and half the screen size, you will see a speed improvement.
Regards
David Steer (London)
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Date: 23 Sep 2003 12:09:43 +0100
From: David Steer \(Plus\)
Subject: RE: Abiword
All,
I have been trying AbiWord (Version 1.0.7) and found that it can write Psion Word files but not read them on my Windows 2000! Also, the saved document has an image that was lost! I have spoken to one of the developers who might be able to look at some of the problems. One thought is that as open source the code is available and if there are any C++ programmers out there, then AbiWord could be converted to run on the Psion/Symbian - just imagin, the most advanced mobile word processor!
IF I make more progress, I will let you know. In the mean time, I am interested in anyone who has had success both reading and writing Psion Word files and what version they are using.
Regards
David Steer (London)
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Date: 23 Sep 2003 14:24:37 +0100
From: Andy Hayes
Subject: ISP Value
Hi All
I just need to pick your brains about something again. Up here in
Shetland we don't have Broadband. We also eagerly await the arrival of
the new fangled invention, the motor-car! Seriously though there are
cars but no broadband at the moment. Next year it should arrive
hopefully. I can't afford the horrendous bills that I am getting from BT
for my no ties Freeserve (pay as you go) internet access. Is anyone
aware of any ISP giving unlimited access for less than £15 per month?
Freeserve have an introductory offer of the first 3 months for £10 per
month. I have just got my course details through for Cisco CCNA. This is
an online course and although there is a college that I can attend to
complete the course, there is nowhere like your own home to be able to
concentrate on this type of work. I could even manage with an off-peak
package if that was reasonably priced.
Andy Hayes
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Date: 23 Sep 2003 16:22:46 +0100
From: Keith Giles
Subject: Re: Mystery Crash & Virus
Astrid Stappenback wrote:
> Can anyone shed a little light on the virus theory or what changes > ISP's might have introduced?
I can't shed any light, but am wondering if it has anything to do with the 10-25 virus-loaded e-mails I've been getting the past week (all my e-mailing is done vie my PC with WindowsXP) each time I start my e-mail program. I don't actually get the virus (my Norton Antivirus never acts up) because somewhere back up the chain somebody/something is cleansing them before I get the e-mails.
They are of 2 types: 1) MS security patch updates, 2) non-deliverable e-mail notices.
On a Google Groups forum today I saw a posting from Steve Litchfield, of 3lib fame, who has changed his e-mail address because he's been getting something like 30MB worth of these each day.
Being an amateur, I have no idea whether these things run their course, go forever, or somebody, somewhere, delivers a rabbit punch and put it/them out of business.
May the bastard burn in hell! Well, actually, I'd like to see them burn right now!
Astrid also wrote:
> and a broken-off piece at the hinges (super glue fix)
In my experience, the only thing super glue has *ever* held together has been my thumb and forefinger. :-(
Happy Cycling,
Keith
Sunnyvale, CA
http://ohsix827.home.comcast.net
Thought For The Day: For fixing things around the house nothing beats a man who's handy with a checkbook.
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Date: 23 Sep 2003 22:37:45 +0100
From: Owen H. Morgan
Subject: Airline baggage handling (OT)
Howdy!
Sorry about the long OT post, but as I have noticed many of our readers travel by air, this should be relevant, and hopefully educational to some.
M Garrett wrote (> ):
> Oh - and an immense number of squashes, drops and
> bounces from all the Worlds airline baggage
> handlers which have written off four of my
> suitcases/briefcases over the years.
Having recently worked for half a year in baggage handling for a major airline (RyanAir), I would like to offer the following advice:
1.
NEVER EVER put computers, cameras, radios, TV's (I've seen it!), glasses, passports, money, winebottles or anything else fragile or valuable you're not prepared to lose or have broken in checkin baggage.
In spite of everyones best efforts (and because of some not so good efforts), baggage does get lost or damaged. Even the bumping about on the conveyor belt is more than I would like to subject fragile equipment to. I've seen hard cases on castors come trundling down the belt at about 100 miles an hour and bags do frequently fall off the trolleys or floats on their way to and from the aircraft, particularly the hard plastic ones which are very slippery. If everyone does their job, the bag will be found and loaded before the aircraft departs, but fragile contents may be damaged. If a wine bottle breaks and the spill damages other people's baggage, you will be held responsible.
2.
NEVER EVER put anything at all in external zippered or velcro flapped pockets on your checkin bags.
Most airline groundcrew are honest and those who aren't are ususally kept honest by CCTV, but external pockets are very vulnerable to accidental opening, particularly when the aircraft is being unloaded and the baggage handler grabs and pulls at whatever part of the bag he can get at. Many velcro flapped pockets actually have large openings where there is no velcro, and all sorts of stuff fall out of them even if the flap stays shut.
I've also seen lose cameras, passports, phone chargers, personal stereos and if I added it all up, enough money in coins to run a small African republic come down the belt from the checkin hall having rattled out of bags on their way down. If we were lucky, it would be obvious which bag the items had come out of and we could stuff them back in, if not. Tough luck!
One of the guys I worked with financed all his lunch money by harvesting a certain spot on the floor under a bend in the checkin conveyor! Oh, and we kept finding those silly little padlocks people use on their zippers on the ground all over the place. Most of them are so cheaply made they will open or fall apart if they're bumped.
3.
NEVER EVER assume your bags will be transported right side up.
They won't. They'll quite probably tumble down the conveyorbelt from checkin to the baggage hall or be bumped by other tumbling bags, they may fall off the trolley or baggage float between the baggage hall and aircraft, they'll be stowed in the baggage hold of the aircraft anyway they fit and they may fall off the belt in the arrivals hall. If you still expect that items stowed in external pockets with velcro flaps will be with the bag at your destination, I have a very nice steel tower in Paris for sale and a beautiful bridge in Edinburgh with a lifelong supply of paint to go with it!
4.
NEVER EVER assume that your checkin luggage will remain dry.
RyanAir routinely turnaround a fully laden 737-800 (189 passengers) in 25 minutes. In daytime, their aircraft almost spend more time in the air than on the ground. That's why they use 737's, they're Jeeps with wings.
The first of the outbound bags are usually taken out to the stand at least 15 minutes before the aircraft is due to arrive. When the aircraft has landed, it is first offloaded and then the outbound bags are loaded up, which will take most of the available time. That means your bag may be outdoors for up to 40 minutes, sometimes much longer if the aircraft is delayed coming in.
The bags are driven to and from the aircraft on open trollies or baggage floats. If it's raining at one or the other of the airports, your bags will get wet. If it's raining hard, they will get very wet Don't blame the airline if your clothes and electronics are all soaked when you arrive at your destination. The best is to pack things in plastic bags inside your luggage. If you use those shrinkwrap services, your bags will become very awkward to handle for the baggage staff (which may inspire rougher handling), and attract the attention of the security staff who'll wonder what's so valuable in your bag.
5.
NEVER EVER checkin your bags with old baggage tags from the same or other airlines.
If you flew Dublin to Frankfurt last week and are flying Dublin to Stansted today or even the same route at slightly different times and the bag comes down the belt with two tags, you are at best causing problems for the staff who may have to check numbers to figure out which is the current one.
At worst, the tags may be at opposite ends of the bag or the newest one has been ripped off on the belt, so the handler only sees the wrong one and sends your bag to Frankfurt. Then there is one bag too many on the Frankfurt flight, which means all the bags have to be offloaded, recounted and the culprit found, but by that time, your flight will have left, someone will have to try to identify your bag to find out where it was supposed to be going and there will be a lot of annoyed passengers on the delayed Frankfurt flight.
If you check your bag in with tags from two different airlines and it falls off the trolley on the way out to the aircraft, RyanAir staff will drive past it, cast a quick glance and only see the old Air Lingus tag. Air Lingus staff will see their tag, stop and have a look, see it's an old one and that the bag also has a new RyanAir tag on the other side and drive on. Result, your bag spends half a day on the tarmac (probably in the rain).
6.
NEVER EVER check in a bag without putting some sort of identification on it. It should preferably include your name and adress, telephone number, flight number, date you are travelling, point of departure, any aircraft changes for the trip, your destination and hotel details at your destination if applicable. Put the same information on a sheet of paper inside the bag on top of everything else so it's the first thing the staff see if they have to open your bag to identify it (only done by a select few pretty girls at RyanAir DUB). This will be invaluable if the tag (and external identification) have been ripped off your bag.
7.
NEVER EVER fly with anything that's under pressure, including gas cannisters, cartridges for inflatable lifevests, paint tins etc.
You may not think of paint tins as being under pressure, but when the aircraft reaches cruising altitude, the pressure outside the tin will be lower than that inside, and the lid will probably pop. Guess who has to pay when everyone elses luggage and the inside of the baggage hold end up the colour you indended for granny's kitchen!
8.
NEVER EVER put sharp or pointed objects in your checkin bag, particularly if it's a soft bag.
Airline staff have been seriously injured by objects like knives and knitting needles etc. The baggage handler puts a soft bag on top of a load of other bags in the hold, places his hand against the end of the bag and gives it a good shove, and a knitting needle goes right through his hand. I've seen this and it looked very painful! It could just as well have been me, and guess who had to pay!
9.
NEVER EVER pack your bag so full that the slightest bump will spring the catches or split the bag.
If you're really lucky, your bag will arrive and most of the contents will still be in it, but you'll spend a couple of hours cutting through all the duck tape before you can open it!
10.
And finally, NEVER EVER assume you'll get away with just a few kilos overweight on your checkin baggage, particularly if you're flying with a budget airline. They've got to make money somehow!
The checkin staff may or may not be lenient, but make sure you know in advance what you may have to pay for your overweight, so you don't end up having to bin half your luggage at the airport.
Airlines do, and will continue to mess up. Baggage handling is hard work with low pay, so there is a big turnaround of staff. Inexperienced staff are prone to cockups and some of the long term staff just don't care because they're being screwed by their employer, but I'd be willing to bet that more than two thirds of the lost or damaged luggage is caused by the stuipidity of the passenger! Making the bag doesn't go astray in the first place is the airlines responsibility. Making sure it will be easy to identify it and get it back on track if it does is yours.
PS. Before anyone says anything about RyanAir, I'd like to point out that while I worked for them, we were consistently the European airline that had the fewest delays and fewest lost bags. I assume everything has gone to the dogs now that I've quit though. The thing that REALLY stinks about RyanAir is the pay! Some of those old 737-200's are getting rather long in the tooth too, but Michael O'Leary has ordered a lot of shiny new 737-800's.
There is NO WAY I would put my Psion in checkin baggage, regardless of which airline I was flying with!
Sorry again for the long OT post, but I hope it will prove useful to some of you. Distribute it amongst anyone you know who travels by air, but please remove my e-mail address.
Owen (Ex employee of O'Leary's Flying Circus)
Thought for the day:
He who looks like his passport photo is not well enough to travel.
--
Owen H. Morgan, Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-9311
Somewhere in Spain
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Date: 23 Sep 2003 22:38:01 +0100
From: Owen H. Morgan
Subject: Re: Faulty 5mx screen
Howdy!
Bruce Phillips wrote (> ):
> I have had wonderful service from my 5mx for 2
> years but yesterday I turned it on and all that
> came up on the screen was about 20 or 30 parallel
> lines running horizontally across the screen.
Yup, your screen cable has gone. If you open and close the case slowly a couple of times, or half open it, you may be able to get the screen working temporarily for long enough to copy your C drive to a CF or switch the remote link on so you can take a backup to a PC. If not, the silkscreen buttons should hopefully still work, so hit "System" followed by "Shift+Ctrl+e" (close all files), then "Ctrl+L", "C" and "Enter" (activate remote link) and take a backup via a PC.
If the remote link is on, PsiWin should wake the Psion up and connect even if it's switched off with the case closed. If you can't get to the System screen, you could try a soft reset which will land you in the System screen with all applications closed. Then hit "Ctrl+L", "C" and "Enter". It will mean you lose unsaved data in any applications that were open, but this is preferable to losing everything.
There may be a way of getting to the System screen from any application by using only the keyboard. If there is, I'm sure someone will enlighten us.
> I am not a computer buff, there is little in the
> way of psion support in this part of the world and
> I would be grateful for some advice about my
> problem, whether or not that advice is about
> something serious.
I don't know what services are available in your neck of the woods, but if there's nowhere local, I reckon you have two alternatives. Either ship the Psion to the German company that installs the improved screen cable or get hold of a cable and repair the machine yourself. The first option is the safest, but will take some time for shipping and probably cost a good lump of money. If you ship it, remove the CF and stylus and if you've been able to take a backup, remove all batteries. If you've not been able to take a backup, leave the backup battery in, install fresh alkalines, tell the repair service that you don't have a backup and PRAY!
To make a successfull stab at repairing it yourself, you need:
1. A very steady hand
2. Experience with soldering electronics
3. A soldering iron with a very thin tip (you can file it), and preferable thermostatically controlled temperature.
4. Some very thin resin cored electronics solder.
5. A new screen cable.
6. Balls the size of coconuts.
7. A web site with a description on how to disassemble the 5mx. (Optional, but very useful)
Equipped with 1 to 6 of the above, I have had a two out of three successrate. The first machine was an S5 classic and never gave any more trouble for as long as I kept track of it. The second was also a classic, and I never got it to work, but there may have been something else wrong with it. The third was an MC218 and worked fine until some idiot (who? me?) cracked the screen.
The 5mx and MC218 are a bit more complicated than the 5 classic, as there are two cable ends to solder on the screen, and the screen has a metal cover that's a bit fiddly to remove. On all machines, it's important to be a bit careful when you disconnect the old cable from the motherboard as the socket is a fragile, and it can be quite difficult to connect the new cable to the motherboard when you're finished.
Whether you want to risk a home repair or not is a balancing act between the difference in price of a replacement secondhand 5mx with screencable of unknown mileage (what you'll have to fork out for if you make a total mess of things), the price of a professional repair (anyone know what they charge?) and the size of your coconuts. (Do you go to a tailor for your shorts?)
PS. How many of our readers have had the screen cable replaced by the German outfit? Have any of you had subsequent failures? Will they sell loose cables? Have any of you seen the German cale next to the standard one? Any comments on obvious differences? (I know about the holes.) I'm sure someone else will post the address to the Germans.
Owen
Somewhere in Spain.
Thought for the day:
If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
--
Owen H. Morgan, Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-9311
http://home.no.net/naomij
Phone and SMS:
In Spain: +34 620520079
In Norway: +47 92053097
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Date: 23 Sep 2003 22:38:14 +0100
From: Owen H. Morgan
Subject: Internet accounts being discontinued by the ISP.
Howdy!
Jon Welford wrote (> ):
> However they recently told
> me that they were to close my account as I was not
> using it to dial in! What they meant was I was not
> using their PC software to dial in.
There is a way around this, but it assumes you have either a friend or a family member with a PC and Internet access. According to Telenor Frisurf's web site, they will close any account that has not been used to dial in for the past three months. I have had this e-mail address for a long time and I want to keep it because a lot of people around the world know it and I have so far managed to keep it relatively spam free. (Famous last words?) As it has both POP3 and webmail, I will be able to continue using it from Internet Café's when I leave Europe. (Anyone know whether Brazil has GSM?)
It's now over a year since I was last in Norway. To keep my account alive, I simply configured my settings as an alternative dialup service on my mother's PC. Then I entered a bi-monthly alarm in Agenda on her Mako. Every other month, my mother uses my account instead of her own when she connects to the net. Frisurf don't make much money out of me, but the account is kept alive.
If the ISP demand that you actually use their own software, it may be a bit more complicated to set up, but should still be possible. However, most "free" ISP's simply want you to dial in using the phone number they have given (not always possible via GSM) and use a phone that sends caller ID so they know where to send the bill. (Billed through your phone company.)
PS. Sorry about my flaky position reports of late. I need to update my settings in REM to give something that makes a bit more sense when I forget to enter my current location.
Owen<42°17.4'N 8°37.9'W
At anchor in Ensenada De San Simon, Spain (Honest!)
Toilet grafitti for the day:
CAPTAINS LOG
Star date: 4398-77-18
Spock and I just beamed down for a shit.
-
Owen H. Morgan, Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-9311
http://home.no.net/naomij
Phone and SMS:
In Spain: +34 620520079
In Norway: +47 92053097
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Date: 23 Sep 2003 23:44:03 +0100
From: ladecoste
Subject: Faulty 5mx screen & Dana instead of a Sony UX-50
Dear Jade,
I was going to send this to the list anyway.
Referring to what you wrote on Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:20:26 +0000:
| Please has your Sony UX50 arrived yet? Could Please let me know and | the p5 list know what u think of it when u get it. Also how does i | compare with the P5 MX
The UX-50's $754 price included a useless 0.3 Megapixel camera and MP3 player. The the keyboard was only 4.5inches wide. The 5mx really didn't allow touch typing with anyone with reasonably wide fingers and that had 5 1/2 inches from the left edge of the Q key to right edge of the P key - Real life measurement not PR hype. I use a Northgate Omni Key/102 on my PC (8 3/4" for the same Q - P measurement) So when my 5mx bought it (here in the US there is NO Psion US anymore) with the lined screen, I went with the Palm 4.1 OS based Dana from Alphasmart (www.alphasmart.com) It is actually wider than the Northgate: 8 13/16" Q - P. The unit has a re-chargeable 3.6 V. Nickel Hydride that is good for 25 hours of use. I still haven't recharged it in a week's use.
The screen is great to use 560 x 160 pixels Actually uses different fonts and sizes in its word processor. Typing is a dream. At $400 delivered it was quite a savings. No hinge to break - I actually tossed it to the carpeted library floor from 4 feet up and nothing happened to it. At 9 x 12 x 2" it is something to be carried in a briefcase - which I always carried anyway.
However with a 33 MHz CPU & 16MB of memory & Palm OS switching apps can take a while as the file is saved and new app is opened. My favorite app InfoSeect for Palm has not yet been optimized for the wide screen yet and still runs in a "normal" for Palm size 2 1/4" square window in the middle of the screen. I have written to both Alphasmart & Miclog to work from the hardware driver and the software ends respectively to get IS 2.0 for Palm optimized for it.
AND all you outside of Europe 5mx users: Synchronize your Contacts with Lotus Organizer (perhaps Outlook will work as well) because all the backups in the world will leave you with an impossible to convert contacts.cdb file. Forget the vcf export out of Contacts... what a mess that imports as! If it hadn't been for Henri Spanola's Menu5 app, I never would have been able to reconnect my screen useless 5mx to my PC and blindly hit the 6 key in Menus5 to sync Contacts with Lotus Organizer & save my 564 addresses. Also only Organizer '97 works to sync not Smartsuite millennium.. one can then load the .OR3 file into
the newer Organizer and save as a .OR5.
The demise: My 5mx began to shut off with hard typing on a Tues. and then worked fine for a week. The next Tues I got the screen lines and never saw a legible screen again. The unit was bought in June 2001 and therefore lasted 2 years & 3 months of extremely gentle care. It was the best small computer I've ever owned (started with Casio programmable in 1981 and then an Epson HX-20 in 1983 and an Atari Portfolio in 1986 & first Psion in 1992 & stuck with them 2 As, 3C, then the 5mx)but the screen flaw was critical and unacceptable.
I enjoyed my time as Psion user immensely. I wish you all luck.
Take care, Larry
--
Larry De Coste
Riverside RI EE.UU.
Linux User #305687 (Libranet GNU/Linux 2.8)
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Date: 24 Sep 2003 00:36:37 +0100
From: Janet I. Fine
Subject: RE: Sony's Hot Crossover PDA
After reading posting about the Sony Clié PEG-UX50 in Digest #338 I went to
the web site to check it out. Although it seems to have a lot of exciting
features, it looks like you cannot edit Word or Excel on this machine - only
view the documents. If this is so it would seem that the only Clie's on
which you can edit these documents would be the ones without the built in
keyboard. Am I right about this? If so, it wouldn't be the device for me.
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