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My current weblog.
Monday, October 07, 2002In the spirit of ask and ye shall receive, Pocket PC Thoughts now has their very own RSS feed. The re-design is sharp, if a little over-commercialized.
Where art thou, Pocket PC Thoughts?
Pocket PC Thoughts has been down since the weekend, their web site promising a new look on Monday morning. I've been silently hoping that they would add an RSS feed too.
Morning is long-gone in the continental US. Where are they? I need my fix.
Tablet PCs - the cool portables that come with a free pen
How do you put people off pen computing? Easy - put out a pen computer whose pen facilities seem more or less glued onto a normal computer, with only perfunctory integration with the rest of the platform. [The Register]
To my mind, the upcoming crop of Tablet PCs are a solution in search of a problem. A regular laptop with a touch-screen doesn't do much for me. They need to be smaller, much smaller.
Toshiba shrinks Bluetooth SDIO Card
A new Bluetooth SDIO Card from Toshiba cranks things down a notch - 9 millimeters in length, and power consumption by 50%, according to Toshiba. Also, it's Bluetooth 1.1 compliant. [infoSync]
Perfect timing from infoSync. I'd seen something about this a week or two ago, but when I had wanted to post about it the other day I could not locate the original source.
Given current trends in the Pocket PC market (few wireless models, many foregoing Compact Flash due to size), why hasn't anyone come out with a dual-SD unit? With Bluetooth SDIO here already, and WiFi SDIO coming, adding another SD slot would provide excellent expansion without adding much bulk or expense.
The probable answer is that Intel's StrongArm / XScale chipsets don't support it. Neither do they support SD's faster transfer modes.
