[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Can anyone recommend a non-palmone device?

Walter Ian Kaye walter at natural-innovations.com
Thu Sep 15 03:13:49 PDT 2005


At 11:16a +0200 09/15/2005, Brad Knowles didst inscribe upon an 
electronic papyrus:

>At 8:52 PM -0700 2005-09-14, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
>
>>  There is a WiFi card for it, which I will get when I get a T3.
>
>	Yes, but it's an SDIO card, and sticks well out of the device, so 
>it's easy to break off.  Moreover, this means you can't use an SD 
>memory card, which really hurts because the on-board memory is not 
>sufficient.

It has more than the Clie, though, right?
::checking site:: Ack, did they discontinue it?! And here I thought 
Tobias only went to craigslist for a good price. Oy. Why would they 
discontinue people's favorite model? Trying to push people toward 
Cobalt?

>	Yes, there are combination SDIO WiFi/memory cards, but they also 
>stick well out of the device, and are limited in the amount of 
>additional memory they provide.

I think 52 MB will do quite well compared to my 16 MB Clie. :-)
I'd just use the memory card for "safety" backups, like I do now. 
(Oh, and for transferring image files, thanks to M/S.)

>	Of course, Palm doesn't support these SD memory cards very well. 
>The VFS stuff in even the LifeDrive is bad enough that it needs to 
>be fixed by a third-party program.  All earlier devices need even 
>more help to make good use of an SD memory card.

Does the T3 have a counterpart to the Clie memory stick backup program?


thanks,
-W



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