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If it can't do Java ...
it is a "CRIPPLED" device and has " less-than-minimal functionality " CNN says ...
> > WINNER, "PC-JR [ Dis ] RESPECT-THE-CUSTOMER" AWARD: > > Microsoft's Web Companion devices, running on a crippled > form of Windows CE, offer home users less-than-minimal > functionality. --C.C. > |
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Psion 5 mx Hand Held PC, $ 520, features include:
PC World magazine article reviewing the Psion 5-mx Java Runs "out of the box" : ( a white paper by Symbian )
Psion web site ( US ) www.psioninc.com |
What is Symbian EPOC ? : Bill Gates worst nightmare.
In a memo to employees last fall, Bill Gates,
Microsoft's chairman, singled out Symbian,
a 10-month-old company with just 260 employees,
as one of the greatest competitive threats to his
corporate empire.
What worries Gates are Symbian's powerful parents:
the phone manufacturers Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola
and the British handheld-computer maker Psion.
The three phone makers together control more than
two-thirds of today's global cell phone market.
-- "The New York Times", April 13, 1999
Avoiding the crippled & bloated WinCE OS
and the tyrany, constraints, and costs of Microsoft,
Symbian is a more compact, more open and less expensive,
superior alternative. And it's Java friendly.
-- Me ( I don't get advertising dollars from Microsoft )
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| Device | Web Page browsing | OS Expenses |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft WebTV | Java Crippled by Microsoft | Pay Microsoft |
| Linux ( Nokia / Intel ) TV | Java enabled | free |
| Hand Held Microsoft WinCE PC | Java Crippled by Microsoft | Pay Microsoft |
| Hand Held Psion / Symbian EPOC | Java enabled | Pay Microsoft's competitor |
| Phone with Microsoft WinCE | Java Crippled by Microsoft | Pay Microsoft |
| Phone with Symbian EPOC | Java enabled | Pay Microsoft's competitor |
| sub $500 Microsoft Windows PCs | Java enabled | Pay Microsoft |
| sub $500 Linux "Web Toasters" dedicated web browsing appliance | Java enabled | free |
Operating Systems in Hand Helds
54 % Palm
8 % WinCE
38 % Others : Symbian's Epoc, Franklin Rex, ...
Daniel Roth, Fortune Magazine
| If you want a Palm, buy a Palm or a Handspring Visor.
If you want a higher resolution display & a keyboard, check out the Psion. The "palm-sized" WinCE machines generaly have a poor battery life and are Java crippled. | ||||||||
| Hand Held Computer | Price ($) | Resolution | Display vga fraction | Display | Battery Life | CPU Speed (M-Hz), Bits | Java | Keyboard |
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Palm (IIIe,Vx), Visor | 180-450 | 160 x 160 | 1 / 12 | 16 gray | good | 16, 16 | kvm subset | no |
| WinCE | 300-500 | 320 x 240 | 1 / 4 | color | bad | up to 133, ?? | crippled | no |
| Psion Revo | 400 | 480 x 160 | 1 / 4 | 16 gray | good | 36, 32 | yes, 1.1 | yes |
| Psion 5-mx | 530 | 640 x 240 | 1 / 2 | 16 gray | good | 36, 32 | yes, 1.1 | yes |
| Psion 7 | 970 | 640 x 480 | 100 % | Color | good | 133, 32 | yes, 1.1 | yes |
| Psion Netbook | 1,280 | 640 x 480 | 100 % | Color | good | 190, 32 | yes, 1.1 | yes |
| Tadpole J-Slate | HIGH | 640 x 480 | 100 % | Color | good | 190, 32 | yes, 1.1 | no |
GAG : Gates shows off WinCE smart phone ( Infoworld )
" Imaging the Imagined : Modeling with Math & a Keyboard " The Interactive Worlds of Java Developer.
3d Human Gait Model : An interactive Java applet I'd like to get running on a PDA.