It's heating up out there...

Carl G. Gruden carl at herc.woodgreen.org
Fri Feb 5 21:08:44 UTC 1999


As well as these two, LG Electronics has recently released the "Phenom".
http://www.lgphenom.com It's out in three different models, priced at around
$700US, and yes you can purchase it on-line.
PROCESSOR 100 MHz Hitachi Super H SH3 CPU
32 MB RAM
16 MB ROM (Free user upgradable to new MS CE 3.0)
Built-in 56 kbps modem
Battery: Rechargeable Li-ion battery pack (12 hours battery life)
Display: 8" (640x240 pixels VGA)
Most notably, standard sized i/o ports. (parallel, serial and VGA).

In addition it looks like you can get up to an additional 48Meg of RAM on a
PCMCIA card for the unit.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Ingalls [mailto:DanI at wdi.disney.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 05, 1999 1:59 AM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: It's heating up out there...
>
>
> 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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