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midwinter is offline midwinter
2008-07-24 , 00:29
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#51
Originally Posted by Karel Jansens View Post
Actually, it was rather easy for me to quit my Newt as my day-to-day PDA: It synchs with practically nothing, the screen is, in today's market, really pathetic (I don't know about others, but with a screen condom on, I can't see anything without the backlight and not much with) and the online experience is almost non-existent (no modern browser, not very friendly email client and extremely crippled TCP/IP stack).

But for writing, nothing beats that blooming green brick.
Yeah. I never was able to make the PDA thing work for me. Too much hassle. And I *tried*, man, I really, really tried. I bought the first Palm. The second Palm. An iPaq. A Newton. I wanted it to work.

And then I realized just how stupid and complicated it made everything, so for years now I've just used a paper calendar I make myself and manually put stuff into Google Calendar.

But yeah. The Newt is useless for anything internet related. But that doesn't mean it's useless!