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Sorry to hear you had a bad experience with one. I will agree that the device feels somewhat flimsy compared to higher-end electronics, and that their intended original business plan was all about getting subscriptions from teens (or parents) to use it as a mostly IM/SMS device with few other...

I wish I knew where to find them for cheap now... I bought from a retail store when they were on clearance, months ago. My recommendation is to save a search on eBay. The jack on the left is a 3.5mm stereo jack, and alsamixer can adjust its volume independently from the built-in, very quiet...

I preordered right after breaking my previous personal carry computer, the OQO 01+. I've been surviving the wait with a Zipit Z2. They sell for 50 USD and less... got mine for $25; my girlfriend got one for $12.50 on clearance at Target back in October. This site has a very recent, very...

A friend of mine is going to Hong Kong and Guangzhou during this timeframe. I asked him a similar question at lunch. He said just offices and factories do the shutdown... retail, etc... continues.

1) Cellphone for Communications + PIM, currently a Nokia N85 2) Pocket computer for everything else, currently a Zipit Z2, although I'm not done getting it optimized for the task The Zipit Z2 is a 300MHz ARM device with qwerty keyboard, wifi, a miniSD slot, and a 320x240 screen, for $50 and...

A suggestion for further exposure: Sell some through ThinkGeek, just like the Wiz. ThinkGeek sends out a printed catalog / ad to its customers / people who've signed up. Those who don't necessarily follow the "right" news sources, but are general "geeks," are often exposed to available...

Updated components often have the same formfactor as their predecessors, and new models that accomplish the same or more are often smaller. A couple examples I know personally: the Toshiba Libretto 50CT was a 75MHz Pentium micro laptop. The Toshiba Libretto 70CT, which came out later, was the...

As much as I want my Pandora *right now*, etc... I really do appreciate this. I ran my Sharp Zaurus for over five years. The open OS, decent specs, and expansion ports meant that the device remained useful and relevant continuously... No other PDA of that time period could do the same...

I have an ancient Toshiba Libretto, and it had a novel sort of pointing device. Like the nubs in the middle of laptop keyboards, except mounted the the right of the screen, you operated it with your thumb, and the two mouse buttons were behind the screen (on the lid) so you could operate them...

As a US customer, I'd like to say "please don't do that!!!" in terms of having to pay customs on the whole thing if it left the US and then came back directly to me. However, do customers in other countries face the same thing with them shipping from the US? I'm not sure how the VAT thing...

2 media player (to play videos, audios, photos) 1 personal video (just You, watching it alone) 1 personal audio (as walkman or other mp3 player) 0 house player (for watching o listening by anybody around) 2 game console (to play games) 0 simple or logic games (causal gaming) 1 emulated...

This is why I pre-ordered a Pandora. I absolutely loved my Zaurus 5500, waited and waited for one of the new clamshell models to sport any kind of wireless, and when the Zaurus product line was discontinued, I bought an OQO. My OQO died and I almost bought an N810, hoping to get back to...

People used to hack the Zaurii by finding the solder points for additional USB headers and tearing up little BT and Wifi dongles to attach them internally... There was a lot of that going on with the early EeePCs too. That said, I use my BT and Wifi extensively, so in-device is needed... it's...

And that was the drawback. OpenZaurus was available with GPE (X based) or OPIE (Qt based). The difference that made OPIE so worthwhile to me was that instead of adapting a desktop paradigm to a palmtop, they really were using a palmtop-all-the-way sort of design, and it ran very fast and...

I used a Zaurus SL-5500 for years until I switched to using my cellphones for all basic PIM functions / sync and an OQO for mobile computing. After my OQO died, I pre-ordered the Pandora and eagerly await it... especially since Angstrom is the successor to OpenZaurus. OPIE was my favorite...

I placed an order on Monday (8/17), so likely yes. Email them per instructions in middle column of http://openpandora.org/ and they'll answer questions on availability, price, etc... and prepare an order for you if that all works out.

Oh yeah... My old Zaurus's audio jack was of this nature, and I forgot about it from the Pandora specs. That said, the Nokia phones have something in software to handle this as well... same 4 pins, but on device insertion (or set up as an "always use this" profile) they ask what you plugged...

Nice thing about a jack like that is that you *can* use it with headphones / purely audio output, or with another cable for video+audio... The later Nokia NSeries phones like N95, N85, etc... have this feature; I use it often. It is very very convenient. I know I'd be happy to see this...