Linux PDA with wifi?
Ian Stephen
ian at tradeswest.ca
Sun Jun 1 05:54:23 CEST 2008
On May 31, 2008, Mike wrote:
> If I wanted a PDA the runs linux and has wifi, and gets good battery
> life, any suggestions?
I've got a Nokia N800. Much less expensive than the N810, but 810 has some
things 800 doesn't.
Battery life is from 1 day to 1 week or so depending on how I'm using it.
Wifi reception is the best of any device I've used.
2 SD slots that are SDHC compatible so plenty of storage.
Fits a jacket or shirt pocket just fine.
I use GPE calendar, todo, timesheet; camera, gnumeric and Maemopad+ daily.
PDF viewer occasionally. Am very happy with it. Look forward to getting a
bluetooth keyboard (perhaps iFrog).
One regret is that I didn't put a screen protector on right away. Now has a
scratchy feeling place on screen where I write the most. Oh, and the
hand-writing recognition works much better for me than Palm's Grafitti 2
does.
One gotcha to watch for is that Maemopad+ db main table data is lost if the
device battery runs out with the application open. In my case I was able to
recover the db with data from its backup table using a cli sqlite3 client.
IanS
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