Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:59:27 -0300 From: Jose Tavares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] OQO 1+ vs. Libretto U100 review
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 17:03 -0800, John Liu wrote: > Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:32:00 +0100 > From: John Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] OQO 1+ vs. Libretto U100 review > > Are there any OQO owners on the list? Would you care to share your > experiences? My main points of interest are: > > - How briskly does the OQO wake up from hibernation/standby? > Quickly enough so that you can pull it from your pocket and look up a > phone number without grinding your teeth? > > - Supposing you leave the OQO in hibernation/standby most of the > time, just waking it up to look up phone numbers, jot down some > notes, check your email, do a Mapquest search, etc, can you get > through a whole day on a single battery charge? How about with the > double-capacity battery? > > - Is the keyboard at least as usable as, let's say, a Blackberry or > a Treo keyboard? > > If the answer to these is "yes", I'll probably buy a OQO. I've been > researching them for a while and they seem pretty good, though pricey. > ] Why not using a Symbian phone instead..? I have one.. pretty good for my 400 contacts (with vcf backup), calendar, taking pictures, accessing simple www sites, taking notes.. The features of a Series60 phone are infinite.. You can even play games with lots of emulators.. You can watch divx movies too.. The battery lasts 2 days in normal use with this apps.. And it is resistent sufficiently to go everywhere with you.. And fits in your pocket.. etc.. etc.. :) A question for you.. Don't you think windowsXP is full-featured for your target app? It just needs a good processor and a big battery to stay up for just a few hours.. My Series60 gets its battery full charged in 1h20mins and lots of times I charge it for 10 minutes and it will give me more 3-7 hours.. Its battery is so cheap that I even care for it... I think the best purpose for OQO is it's capacity for conecting a usb keyboard and a external display .. Great for traveling from home to office for people without a internet connection and file server.. The question is that OQO is cool but has too much processing power that will give you too little battery.. I think too much processing power for it's bad keyboard/mouse, for not using it as a real computer.. Maybe a tuned OS would do better on this machine.. Linux? [] JA Tavares
