[ILUG] As cool as MS Surface Table!

[Philip Trickett (List)]

On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 11:45 +0100, Michael Watterson wrote:
> Philip Trickett (List) wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 11:07 +0100, Michael Watterson wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> I've been designing & programming GUI based systems since about  1988 
> >> and personally I like my 1600 x1200 screen :-)  For desktop work I found 
> >> that light pen, then touch screen or tablet incredibly tiring compared 
> >> with mouse & QWERTY.  A touch screen on ANYTHING is really only good for 
> >> very occasional input.
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > Have you looked at the Nokia N800? It has an onscreen thumb keyboard
> > which is surprisingly easy to use. Also, it responds to either stylus
> > or finger touch input, and alters the UI to compensate.
> >
> >   
> They have them on buses in Finland for the travellers. I think 6 or 8 
> per bus, WiFi to a 450MHz Flash-OFDM based Mobile Internet Router 
> (Netgear?). But then Nokia is in Finland too.
> 
> If anyone wants to donate one to me  for research purposes,  I don't 
> mind.  I was going to get one, but  bought a  GP2X instead. Awkward to 
> add  WiFi  to, and  no  touch screen (though  the HW  supports it 
> directly).  But easy  to program  for.  I still  might get one.  Does it 
> have USB host easily?  I wish it had a  PCMCIA/cardbus slot.
> 
There is a patch for USB host support. The host is unpowered though, so
you have to have an alternative supply for your peripheral.

I use it with a freedom foldable bluetooth keyboard, which works well.

The two MMC/SD slots allow for alot of storage, and the latest update
supports SDHC, which can give you SD cards of 8GB in size at the moment.

With the 802.11g and bluetooth, I feel that covers all you need for
expansion though.

Phil