PDA hardware

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Kirk:

Hmmm. Should this be Texas Kirk as opposed to Ontario Kirk -- Is that
Texas part right?

I have no interest in ownership on the available hardware side. It sounds
like you may move something to prototype fairly quickly. Go for it. I'm
just not in a position to spend a lot of time specifically on this right
now. My product overview would, therefore, take far more time.

Perhaps the best that I can do quickly is to probe and suggest. Let me do
that now and ask a question that hasn't popped up yet.

What is the competition for this PDA?

I would suggest it is not the BNS, but rather devices like the
Parrot. From that vantage point, your list of functions has two clear
advantages to the Parrott -- email and longer battery life.

I would suggest the consideration of three additional features:

Clock/Calendar and the ability to calculate times and dates--plus the
presence of alarms. By calculate I mean divide 1:00 hours and get 0:20
minutes back, etc;

Web Browsing -- with Lynx, probably

Streaming Audio -- which should work OK if not stored locally beyond
what's needed for buffering.

				Janina Sajka, Director
				Information Systems Research & Development
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

janina at afb.net


On Sat, 11 Mar 2000 cpt.kirk at 1tree.net wrote:

> I know I was not the designated hardware guy. But in looking arround I
> found a SA1100 based board that while not in production may be doable. It
> was designed at a university and the schematics are on their web site. I
> do have at least some access to pretty high level PCB production. A friend
> of Buddy and I is working on building a computer for himself. This is
> including his etching his own board. He has indicated a willingness to
> help prototype a project along the way.
> 
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
> ------------------
> 
> Your fly might be open (but don't check it just now).
> 
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