From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <16e35360c3dcabe9826a019f1e209155@plan9.bell-labs.com> From: David Presotto To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] ipaq installation changes In-Reply-To: <1ec9123d8949805be68aeafcf6b19ae7@plan9.escet.urjc.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 09:13:52 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c53d0f92-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > What do you other folks with bitsies do with them? I find they make excellent paper weights. They turned out less useful than I had hoped (at least to me). I had originally wanted to use one as a replacement to carrying a PC. Unfortunately, the input slows me down way too much for that and the screen, even with small fonts, is pretty tight. The foldable keyboard would probably help. I ordered one and it never came. With a wavelan, it does make a nice remote control when giving presentations. Just plug a projector into a PC, then import the keyboard and mouse from the bitsy, then start page, rio, or whatever. There should be more possiblities there. It makes a usable voice communications device. With a little more support it could be an IP telephone. Someone would have to do all the hard stuff to make it compatible with RTP/H323/SIP whatever. If you walk around wearing headphones and singing to yourself, then it makes an OK replacement for an walkman. At least it makes you look like you're listening to something rather than just crazy. A bit pricey for that unless you get one off of ebay. If we had a web broswer that actually worked it would be much more usable.