- RE: E90 and E61

- E90 apologetics

Date: 7 Sep 2007 18:47:40 +0000
From: Bob <address truncated>
Subject: RE: E90 and E61

I was looking at the E90 and it looks neat and if you read all the info it sound really impressive.  I have a 9300 and an E62.  I like them both very much.  Like most people I was looking at the E90 with interest but I don't want to pay over a thousand dollars for one.  I alternate between my 9300 and E62 and they do what I want them to do and do it well, so I am not sure its worth going from them to the E90 especially from what I have read here. We were spoiled with our Psion's and we probably won't ever find an exact replacement for them.  I still use my Series 7 and my 5mx on occasion.  My Series 7 especially for traveling and for a quick look at email as its so much faster.

Thanks,
Bobby
Steilacoom, Wash USA

Date: 8 Sep 2007 16:22:23 +0000
From: Steve Litchfield <address truncated>
Subject: E90 apologetics

It's disappointing to hear of so many people bashing the E90 in here without really trying it for real. I've been using the E90 now for 3 months and am very happy with it.

Some specific replies though:

- It's NOT the same software as on the E61. The E61 used the last version of Psion's old office suite. The E90 uses Quickoffice. As does the E61i.

> 5).You can upgrade online (22euro) but you dont get much more (yes,
> with version 4.5,> CTRL C and CTRL V do work now, but they cannot be
> used to paste to other applications, only some, in particulary with

Of course they can. Copy and paste work fine (in both v3.85 and the new
v4.5) into any text field in other apps. And the new v4.5 has perfect round tripping (try that with Psion Word) and even loads of keyboard shortcuts designed to make Nokia 9500/9300 owners feel at home.

> notes or active notes). The> shift key does not select, nor copy and
> paste on multiple cell, not to mention sort or graphs.Really I dont understand why, having a so

Cell selection works differently in Quicksheet. It's just a different way of doing it etc. Sorting and charts are absent though, a shame.

>>rest of E90: it is difficult to install anything the worked> on other 60 3d version of the operating system, due to a certificate and/or> incompatibility problem.I dont mention their agenda:

Just turn off Signed app checking in the App Mgr settings and you can install anything you want.

>>tidy/archive, for instance, the old year to avoir to have a very big, slow> (and, in case of hardware or software problem subject to total data loss)

I haven't seen any Calendar slowdowns due to size. Remember that a 300K Agenda on a Psion is huge. But the internal flash memory disk on an E90 is over 100 *Megabytes*. So there's plenty of room to work in, and I haven't heard of speed problems.

> The Gps apparently can receive only five satellites, but besides that is VERY slow (not even comparable for instance with a pocket pc MIO 168 with> the old chipset SIRF II).

It can receive all of them, but only shows you the five strongest. Yes, lock on is slowish if you've moved since the last lock, but they'll add Assisted GPS any day now and that'll bring lock down to 10 seconds.

>>> About the keyboard, when folded it touches the screen, leaving marks
> (maybe in the long time could scratch it).

Not on all devices. I think this is people with greasy hands, personally. Or just being fussy. There are no marks on *my* screen.... 8-)

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