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* On Mon May-09-2005 at 03:34:36 PM +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen said: |
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> On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 16:21 +0300, Alin Nastac wrote: |
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> > Mobile phones are far from PDAs. I don't see anything you can't do with |
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> > a PDA (since it _is_ a computer). |
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> > Compared to them, _normal_ mobile phones are very limited devices. |
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> My last two mobile phones (Motorola A920 and Motorola E1000) are |
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> symbian-based hand-helds, and they act like a PDA - but I still can't do |
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> the same stuff with my PDA as I can with a PC. |
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I have a symbian phone as well (Nokia 3595, at least I'm pretty sure |
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Nokia's run symbian) but it does not act like a PDA. Luckily I also have |
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a PDA (i-Mate PDA2K, aka O2 XDA IIs, MDA III, and so on...) which acts |
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as a phone. Needless to say these devices are far from similar. |
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> I suggested app-pda because of the metadata.xml description: |
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> The app-pda category contains software for working with personal |
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> digital assistants or hand-held computers. |
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> As I've said, I think most modern mobile phones can be considered being |
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> a PDA/hand-held computer. |
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The latest and greatest phones can almost be considered PDAs, I agree. |
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But they are not the norm yet. I mean, my phone can run Java |
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applications and has GPRS but that's about as far as it goes. My PDA, |
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well it has everything from BlueTooth and 802.11b to GPRS, GSM (850, |
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900, 1800, 1900) as well as an internal 128M flash memory and a 512M SD |
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card in the expansion slot. It even has a slide-out keyboard. This |
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thing is more powerful than most PCs 10 years ago. They are converging, |
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but PDAs are advancing at an astonishing rate since they're geared |
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towards power users and geeks. Phones aren't moving as fast since for |
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the average person they just want a phone that makes and receives calls. |
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Does the average person use Gentoo? Probably not, but I still think they |
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are very different beasts for now and should be kept separate. |
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I am aware that mobile phones outside of North America are much more |
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advanced (in general) so perhaps this is the cause of this little |
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disagreement. I don't have a really strong opinion either way, but I |
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thought I'd throw in my user's perspective. |
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