I recently picked up an HP Jornada 548 Pocket PC since it was cheap and I wanted to check out the Pocket PC experience on an SH3 device. I soon found out that the 548 has a cool Easter egg: if you tap and hold on the time display on the upper right corner of the screen while simultaneously pressing and holding down the Action button on the left side of the unit, a little menu comes up with the choices "Run" and "Clock." "Run" opens up the Run dialog
(dunno why they didn't just put it on the Start Menu
), but that's not the cool part. If you type
rotate r into the Run dialog, another dialog box opens asking for confirmation that you want to switch to landscape display. In landscape it only uses 8-bit color
(256 colors
) as opposed to the 12-bit
(4096 colors
) that it uses in portrait mode. Kinda cool, though, that there actually was a Pocket PC
(and an SH3 one at that
) that supported landscape mode three years before Windows Mobile 2003 SE came out.
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