Smaller then a laptop, larger then a Palm, and with a keyboard

[Trooper]

Just an idea, What about one of these ? http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8728350077.html

Trooper

[the_leander]

Interesting, but like the oqo, the keyboard would make for much unpleasantness in the long term.

I just wish that someone somewhere that actually did anything anymore, would put some thought into the ergonomics of these things, yes they may be technically superb, look great and everything else, but if they're not comfortable to use, they are in fact, rather pointless...

Damn you Psion for just giving up.

[Trooper]

Maybe a Toshiba Libretto (the CT range)? You can stick a range of operating systems on them.

Trooper

[the_leander]

the libretto is a nice little system which I have tried out before now and found to be very comfortable to use, sadly its battery life isn't that great. But certainly that sort of sized machine.

[Trooper]

Whats wrong with the Psion series 7, What did you mean it not being supported ?. I am personally thinking of getting one myself. I already have a series 5 but find it a bit slow on occations. My Libretto CT100`s battery has just died on me :-( . I do have a Asus 620 ppc a sony clie sj30 and a tough cf-r1 notebook, But the battery life on that isn`t brilliant, 3hrs max.

Just my 2p.

Trooper

[Floid]

As much as I hate to say it, I think tablet-sized devices (Palm, Zaurus or CE) with accessory folding keyboards are the best/only bet right now.

Some of the MobilePros may be able to take NetBSD or Linux, but you'll need a CF to wedge it on, and so forth.

Upshot is that, "in theory," Bluetooth (or WUSB, or Zigbee, or who knows what at this rate) keyboards might be cheap someday, making that combination a bit more 'ain't it cool?' and a bit less 'hunched over a deck of playing cards.'  But you might as well pick up a used Transmeta ultralight while you wait.

[the_leander]

Trooper wrote:
Whats wrong with the Psion series 7, What did you mean it not being supported ?. I am personally thinking of getting one myself. I already have a series 5 but find it a bit slow on occations. My Libretto CT100`s battery has just died on me :-( . I do have a Asus 620 ppc a sony clie sj30 and a tough cf-r1 notebook, But the battery life on that isn`t brilliant, 3hrs max.

Just my 2p.

Trooper

The Series 7, along with all other models was dropped by Psion some years ago, the 7 was their last gasp, they still produce a variant of the series 7, with more memory and ram, running WindowsCE.net for £1100 - which is waaaaay out of my budget.

BTW, does anyone know of anyone who would want to buy a prototype DT300 webpad running BeIA?

[Floid]

The Series 7, along with all other models was dropped by Psion some years ago, the 7 was their last gasp, they still produce a variant of the series 7, with more memory and ram, running WindowsCE.net for £1100 - which is waaaaay out of my budget.

I could swear the NetBook is available with EPOC (or Symbian) again now, but the cost isn't going to be much better, so I didn't bother mentioning it back there.

There was a bit on TheRegister a while ago (after the collapse and WinCE declarations) about them finally shipping EPOC(bian) drivers for at least one flavor of 802.11b card...

[AmiGR]

OT

"Smaller then a laptop, larger then a Palm"
That rhymes well with "Faster than a bullet, terrifying scream", if you know what I'm talking about! :-)