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cmonex - 2006-02-20 9:43 PM
interesting that you had these experiences. ive never had an sl4 but i have two hpc's with the same OS
(ce.net 4.1
), and they're very stable, especially the bsquare phh. that thing never freezes. wifi works reliably. but sigmarion 3 doesn't really like the bluetooth driver
(it causes a slowdown at power up
)
IE 5.5 and its rendering is very good on these pda's i have. speed isn't as good as NF 3.1 on a zaurus SL-C760 but the rendering is certainly better. NF 3.1's speed on the zaurus is simply amazing. but IE is nice as well. IMO.
so i'm really sorry that you had so bad experiences
btw did you try calligrapher for handwriting stuff?
ok i knew cenet is not a platform but can it be this different from pda to pda?
In fairness, the slowness annoys me more than the occasional freeze
(after all, I get freezes with my Newt and Lunasuite as well
). Granted, I've gotten accustomed to Pentium DualCores and gigabytes of RAM, but both my Newtons and my SE P910 run circles around Wince, on processors that are not that different from the SimPad's.
I do stand by my assertion that Pocket IE is crap: half the time it does not recognize
(or can't be bothered with
) the images on a site, which can be a real pain if said image is one of those "retype the letters to prove you'e a human being" thingies; it even manages to render sites differently on different occasions
(phase of the Moon perhaps?
).
I have PenOffice on my Fujitsu Siemens tablet, so I
know that Transcriber is a licensed, limited copy of Calligrapher. What I do see is that PenOffice recognizes text much better, and that even Transcriber's printed recognizer is less than 75% accurate. I'm not even going to compare that to the Newton's cursive recognizer
(which, incidentally, is just anearlier version of Calligrapher
) and its 99+% record
(even virtually 100% when writing in English
). Oh yeah, and why can't I get language modules with Transcriber?
Now, I do like handwriting a lot, and I realize that Linux doesn't have anything that comes even close to Calligrapher, but I'd gladly turn in HWR for character recognition if it improves my general computing experience.
Another annoying thing of Wince: the onscreen keyboard is really only usable in one of its largest incarnations. Which would be nice, if there were a way to de-maximize Wordpad. As it is now, I can type about half a page
(almost touch-typing, so not everything is bad
) and then the text disappears behind the keyboard: stop typing, move keyboard, lose train of thought, curse at idiots at Microsoft, oh good train of thought back. Obviously, the text I type is now
below my keyboard, which adds to the general feeling of surrealism.
I was beginning to wonder why you people even
have forums dedicated to Wince, but then it hit me
(again
): virtually nobody can install Linux on an HPC either...
I think I'm going to shelve this thing, chalk it up as a learning experience and start saving for a Zaurus.