Michael Rigby-Jones wrote: >>I used to be very much into gadgets, in particular PDAs. In >>fact, I have three PDAs and my wife has used some electronic >>dictionaries with some basic PDA functionality and programing >>capability. But then PDA is said to be die a slow death with >>the rising of Smart Phones (including PDA phones). So I am not >>so sure why Internet tablets like N810 or eBook reader like >>Amazon Kindles are anything exciting. Anyway, my year 2002 >>Pocket PC or even the year 2000 Palm PDA can be a good ebook >>reader. My 2002 Pocker PC (with a add-on wifi card) can also >>browse the Internet. And the new cell phones have wifi >>built-in and have relative good screens (iPhone, N95, O2 Xda, etc). >> >>For N810 maybe one thing is that it is based on Linux. But >>there are other Linux PDA or PDA phones. > > The N810 and the N770(which I own) have a big advantage over smart phones > in the size of the screen. 800x480 is just about large enough to browse > many web sites without having to continuously scroll left and right to see > the entire page (though the occaisional web site is still awkward). The > typical 320x200, or even the better 640x480 resolution displays on PDAs > are very tiresome to browse with. I agree, the resolution is really impressive. It feels a little sluggish however, websites seem to take a long time to load, even over a fast wireless connection. We got the N800 from Nokia, in exchange for some scan tools. :) They have an open source project for car diagnostics that has some neat-looking gauges: By the way, is there a way to change screen orientation? It would seem that "portrait" orientation would be more appropriate for books. Vitaliy -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist