Joseph Dal Molin wrote:
>
> Not to start a "religious war", I would strongly suggest looking at Compaq's
> Ipaq handheld as a platform for logistically seamless computing. It has a
> 200mhz Strong Arm chip in it and a very bright color display. It takes
> standard pmcia cards and uses compact flash memory. It runs Linux or Windows
> CE.
>
> We are just beginning to give it a test drive in the Primary Care Reform
> project here in Ontario.
>
Actually, what is needed is a sort of platform independence in handhelds...
Some concerns:
there are some folks who always want the biggest iron, but can the
developers keep up?
The battery life on these things is short: I get 12-14 weeks on 2 AA
batteries on my old Palm Pilot Pro, and my colleague in the next office is
hung if he doesn't get his iPaq into the charger right after supper.
Fixing on a hardware platform creates vendor lock...
DJ
