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2009-05-26 , 08:07
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Originally Posted by CyberCat View Post
do you have any suggestions for good alternatives? I'm trying to find something that combines open software with pocketable size and stylus-driven touch screen. I've been looking around, Pepper pad is too big, the OQO is too bulky and expensive, iPhone/touch is too proprietary, Palm's offerings are too limited, the ARCHOS are too proprietary, netbooks and UMPCs are usually either too large and or expensive. Surely there is something out there!? The Pandora console seems the best compromise I've found, but even at that it's not really want I want... gah.
it's really difficult. we're spoiled by the NITs.... form factor, battery life (above all!), ... the pandora isn't for me. i wouldn't get used to its game-design. the one thing i never did on a tablet was play any sort of game, so the pure presence of game controls would be somewhat annoying for me.

it'll probably have to be something like OQO... I could live with the size and weight, the N810 was the lower limit anyway. OTOH:
http://i.gizmodo.com/5210804/rumor-h...for-this-world

so....

but that's the form factor i'm looking for, preferrably without a hard disc, though, and with good GNU/linux support. Maybe finally the Atom MID market will get alive (although I wonder why it should after being dead for so long) and we'll get something from there.

In case everything else fails, a very small netbook would be the only way out of this crisis.