It's heating up out there...

Dan Ingalls DanI at wdi.disney.com
Fri Feb 5 06:58:43 UTC 1999


Folks -

A couple of pretty interesting new PDA's on the horizon, allegedly for spring delivery...

The E-100 from Casio
http://www.casio.com/corporate/pressdetail.cfm?PR_ID=60
VR4121 at 131MHz
240 x 320 pixels LCD, TFTColor 65536Colors
16MB RAM
16MB ROM 
price?
date available?

The Jornada 420 from HP
http://www.hp.com/jornada/palmtops/hp400/prdt_spec/prdtspec.html
Hitachi SH7709a 32-bit processor operating at 100 MHz
240 x 320 pixels LCD, CSTN, 256-color 
8MB RAM; upgradable to 16 MB 
8MB ROM 
$519
available now

Both have:
Palm Pilot form factor
Win CE 2.1 and a pile of apps
Audio speaker and microphone 
One infrared port (lrDA version 1.2) 
One RS232 serial port in cradle (allows synchronisation when unit is docked) 
1 card slot for Flash memory
Lithium ion battery

Both should run Squeak pretty well.
But...
    how is the display in bright light?
    how long does the battery last with and w/o backlighting?
    what are the actual Squeak speeds?

Anybody have any further info on these two or other similar machines?





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