- Psion that first popularized SSD ,

- Symbian going open-source soon

- Re: The Digest V1 # 1241

Date: 22 Jun 2008 03:36:33 +0100
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Psion that first popularized SSD ,

Att.: Ajai Khattri

Re.: Psion that first popularized SSD  - I think we all agree with you on your sentiment that Psion should have been oen step ahead of WindowsCE instead of behind. It would have had a bright future with the EPOC software. Is this software still alive at the moment ?  Is it Nokia and SE only that tun some phones on it or others too ? Does anyone see that it will continue to be developed or is it at a dead end ?

Best regards,

Itamar

Date: 24 Jun 2008 09:02:08 +0100
From: Arne Christensen <address truncated>
Subject: Symbian going open-source soon

Something's going on:

"Mobile leaders to unify the Symbian software platform and set the future of mobile free" -- http://www.nokia.com/A4136 001?newsid=1230416
"Nokia to acquire Symbian Limited to enable evolution of the leading open mobile platform" -- http://www.nokia.com/A4136 001?newsid=1230415
Regards, Arne

Date: 24 Jun 2008 14:31:04 +0100
From: Ajai Khattri <address truncated>
Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 1241

On 20 Jun 2008, Trygve Henriksen:

> > EEE PC 900MHz "Celery" (clocked at 630MHz normally) 512Mb RAM 8Gb SSD $499 > > HP 2133 1.2GHz VIA C7-M 1Gb RAM 120Gb HDD $549
>
> > EEE weighs around 3lbs. HP weighs around 3lbs.
>
> Still more than the 13" laptop I'm sitting with just now...
>
> And the Alpha-400 is just 700grams... (just about the weight of 2 S5's, or half the weight of the HP 2133 ;-)

I seem to remember a comparison to the EEE but if you want to switch
around the argument then so be it.

The Alpha has a 400MHz CPU and 128Mb RAM right? About the same as my
N810 web tablet. Im a software developer so I need a bit more oomph than
an S5 :-) I also need > 2Gb disk space. The Alpha seems too big to be a
PDA (Ill stick to my N810 for that), and too small to write software on.
And if the keyboard is anything like the EEE, a lot of people will be put
off.

> Slowness may be partially attributed to the fact that file is 4.7MB and
> over 400 pages... (With some graphics)

I routinely read bigger PDFs on my tablet. Viewing PDFs is plenty fast on
the Mini of course.

--
Aj.