Managed to make my LG Phenom quite a bit more portable with an external battery pack, so now I'm no longer tethered to the wall
(since it underclocks quite severely when on internal battery power
).
I'm using one of these to deliver power to it. Using the power adapter cable I'd built to replace the power supply that died, I'm stepping the 12V the battery pack outputs down to 3.6v, and it works like a charm.
I also really should have probably used a different size barrel jack on the Phenom side, I really hope I don't do something immeasurably stupid and plug 12v into the 3.6v socket.
Means I can actually take it around with me places! Almost. I don't like having the unit just in a pocket or in my bag loose.
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In general my impression is that getting software isn't in any way easier today than in the original days. Maybe that's the reason that most ebay-Jornadas come like new because noone could do anything with it even back then. I never saw anyone using a CE-Palmtop besides some company projects (insurance companies). Around 1999 I owned a Jornada myself but I had no good idea what to do with it. Instead I continued to use my DOS-palmtops.
Honestly, 90% of my H/PC use involves either PocketIE for saved web pages or Pocket Word to just type something up. I'll try and connect to the internet for fun over serial, but it's so slow that it is strictly for the entertainment of browsing on such an old device rather than anything productive, and if I have to look stuff up, I'll do it on my PC and maybe save the webpages for viewing on the H/PC
(printing to PDF and converting that to images is the easiest way I've found, at least for a CE 2.x device
).
Like, I guess you could maybe install a media player for fun, and maybe try a few emulators, but in general, the situation is pretty rough with software if you aren't writing your own. CE 3 devices at least have a few neat options, but it's still not great.
Pretty much ever CE device I've seen in the wild runs some internal custom business application, like the PDTs we used to use at my old job, they had some .NET application to manage the inventory.
Almost all the other CE devices I've seen were just thin clients/web browsers.