Is an iPDA worth it?

o-mac · February 28, 2003 10:10PM

What's the word on an Apple designed PDA?

I have a Palm (not used anymore) and an iPaq. The Palm was a pain because you couldn't get al lof your contact information in there. the iPaq isn't so great either because the battery life sucks plus I realized that I really had no reason to to have word or excel on it..I really only use it for my address book and calendar...

So how about the iPDA? Let's see:

mp3 player

calendar (iCal)

notes

Address book (editable)

Why, that sounds like a digital notepad to me!! ha ha ha...

ensign pulver · February 28, 2003 10:44PM

[quote]Originally posted by O-Mac:

So how about the iPDA? Let's see:

mp3 player

calendar (iCal)

notes

Address book (editable)

Why, that sounds like a digital notepad to me!!<hr></blockquote>

No, that sounds like the iPod.

The iPod IS the Apple PDA, now and forever.

os10geek · March 1, 2003 10:34AM

The iPod is gradually evolving into a basic Palm. Look: first you could store contacts, then calender info, and now we can just wonder.

fireants22 · March 1, 2003 10:41AM

I have an iPod...and I tell you, it aint no pda. After years of waiting for apple to revive a Newton 2 (and gone through countless palm pilots) I couldnt wait anylonger and caved-in on a Sony Clie nx70v.

Beautiful machine...even if apple were to release a pda next tuesday (or the tuesday after that, i was getting sick of having to wait for tuesdays...) I will not give up this beaut.

Sure, it may not have the apple-ease-of-use-interface, but this thing is top notch-build quality, hi-rez 480x320 screen, compact design. Highly recommended product for mac-users of OSX (you gotta buy missingSync tho)

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harald · March 1, 2003 10:51AM

Not going to happen.

There are excellent hypothetical reasons why.

And then some excellent non-hypothetical reasons such as Steve telling anyone who will listen (including financial conference calls) that it's umm not going to happen. Steve reckons that the PDA is finished; converged mobile devices that can sync with your PC are the future. He's said this many a time.

I just KNOW he's right.

os10geek · March 1, 2003 10:59AM

Well, he might not call it a PDA, but he will release something that most people consider to be one.

neutrino23 · March 1, 2003 1:06PM

For me the PDAs are too small and too limited. I don't need yet another gadget to learn and maintain. If Apple made a thinner and lighter PowerBook and if it had something nifty like a screen you could write on that would do it for me.

os10geek · March 1, 2003 1:37PM

originally posted byneutrino 23:

[quote]If Apple made a thinner and lighter PowerBook and if it had something nifty like a screen you could write on that would do it for me. <hr></blockquote>

What do you mean, "it would do for me"? It would do for everyone! Everyone would say, "Mommy, can I get a Powerbook Extreme?(a totally Apple name, I know <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> )That would be a fast selling product. That wouldn't just do, it would exceed.

hmurchison · March 1, 2003 1:40PM

I know some of you are PDA fans but they're just not going to fly. Slow input and small screen= forever a niche item.

os10geek · March 1, 2003 1:52PM

What about the Tungsten W? The input on that is at least 30 word per minute once you get the hange of it. Graphiti and inkwell, on the other hand, are 30 lettersa minute.

matsu · March 1, 2003 2:30PM

I wouldn't mind a nice wireless eBook reader, but it would have to be about the size of a DVD jewel case and have a screen that knocks you on your a$$ in any lighting conditions. Throw in a voice recorder, small psion style flip over keypad, HDD, and days long battery life, and you'd have a winner, but the market is limited.

Alternatively, making a slightly larger iPod with a tungsten style slide out screen, voice imput and text recognition could make for a nice little PDA for recording voice notes and syncing with your mac.

harald · March 1, 2003 2:58PM

[quote]Originally posted by os10geek:

<strong>Well, he might not call it a PDA, but he will release something that most people consider to be one.

</strong><hr></blockquote>

Save your rolleyes pal.

You're right.

Read my post again.

fireants22 · March 1, 2003 9:11PM

funny how all the things you guys want/mentioned all point to a device aka. pda...you may not admit it, along with Steve J, but there is still a very large number of people buying pdas. As a standalone item, i agree they dont do as much as a scaled down notebook (subnotebook)- but a pda (my clie) works great as an addition to my tibook800mhz.

If apple actually made a subnotebook, dont you think i wouldve bought one of those instead of my Clie?!

The functions I wanted to be able to do was: wireless internet, watch Mpeg movies, check my email, take quick candid pictures with the built-in camera, have the largest display available on a pda.

My Clie can do all that (with a wiFi card) and weighs less then 4lbs.

[and please, dont lecture me on how small the new 12"powerbook is....IT AINT A SUBNOTEBOOK, AND IT STILL WEIGHS OVER 3LBS!!!]

I think apple missed the boat when they passed up the opportunity to port the OSX to the oqo: <a href="http://www.oqo.com"; target="_blank">www.oqo.com</a>

o-mac · March 1, 2003 9:26PM

Yo Yo Yo!

I just came back from the Apple store and gave the iPDA some thought. This is what I'm going to do.

I like writing on paper. Typing letters on the palm or the iPaq is just waay too slow. I also like to doodle too so for me a little black notebook works just fine (which is what I use now)

Now for a place to keep contacts and a calendar, using the iPod would be great!...I'm already thinking about how i'm going to do it...

os10geek · March 2, 2003 2:21PM

With Dell's Axim, the time is right. knowing how Apple squeezed a G4, DVD-R drive, awesome screen, and 1gb of ram into a 1" thick case, I think that Apple could squeeze a G3 and iPod drive into a slightly bigger than a Tungsten package. As for a Sony Clie size PDA, that would be impossible without severely scimping on processor speed. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />

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