This looks cool: a Palm-based Unicode Bible program with Hebrew and Greek. I almost wish I had a Palm Pilot again. (Actually, I guess it’s more than “almost.”)
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No palm-pilot? What’s up with that? How do you manage without a pda? (I’m lost just thinking about it!)
I didn’t say I don’t have a PDA. I just don’t have one I really like at the moment. (At work they encouraged us to get Windows Mobile 5 phones, then a year later stopped funding our data plans.)
I’ve got an HTC Wizard, which is an OK phone and a pretty decent handheld Microsoft Exchange interface and possibly the worst IE4 derivative web browser imaginable. I would kill for good handwriting recognition or Palm-style Graffiti again. And current apps for Windows Mobile are using .NET of all things. Just what we needed on devices that have 64 MB RAM.
Ugh. I feel your pain. I carried a Moto-Q for a while, and although it is technically my company phone, I haven’t used it in a very long time. It was that phone that caused me to continue carrying my palmTX and RAZR up until very recently when they were both replaced w/an iPhone.
I don’t miss Graffiti nearly as much as I miss having an external keyboard. The on-board virtual keyboard works well enough for short notes or quick emails, but anything more that a couple of sentences long and I end up waiting until I’ve returned to my desk.
Yeah, next time I have money (whenever that is) I may go up to something like a Palm TX unless there’s a decent *nix handheld out there. So far I’m still not seeing everything I want (which, to be honest, is mostly Emacs and network capabilities).
Encourage you to buy the Microsoft solution, then pull the funding. I’m pretty sure I know whose idea that was.
My wife and I own an HP and Dell PDA. I hate them. My wife doesn’t mind them too much, but that’s because I eventually figure out how to fix them. Unfortunately there’s an application we have to run that only runs on Wince. I sure would have preferred something Palm-based. Wince has NT’s inherent weaknesses (bloated and needlessly complex, and therefore more prone to break than it needs to be) but since there aren’t a billion people running it, fewer of the bugs are fixed.
Agree 100% with Dave here.
I had always hoped that the palmtop PCs would continue to mature, but that market seems to be dead and gone. The best hope there is something like OpenMoko (which isn’t much of a hope, I’m afraid). Darn it, Linux could do this, if the hardware were just there. I would kill for a decent-sized keyboard, 80×24 screen, network (even just Ethernet!) capability, and good battery life.
Linux-based, though. Got to have my Emacs.
As a proud owner of four Palm devices, I’d be happy to advise you on your future purchase. Contact me anytime.
I will when I’m ready, but money isn’t there right now. I will ask, though - what’s the state of syncing to Outlook? That’s the clincher for me (thanks to work).
Yeah, we may need to talk. I thought you were talking about picking up an old Palm to use this program. I didn’t realize you were thinking about the newer ones. I may still have something to contribute, but I can’t tell you about Outlook, because I don’t use it.
I wouldn’t mind an old palm. I have an m130 if I can get it to charge again, but it drives me nuts that it has no flash and if I don’t keep it charged I lose everything. That plus the Outlook sync thing (but I have something from Chapura that will sync that, almost well enough to work).
It’s almost enough to get me to buy one of the Palm smartphones (the ones that actually run PalmOS, I mean, not the new Windows Mobile ones, ack). Some of those are downright cheap these days, used.