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2007-03-11 , 15:11
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Originally Posted by Seb Per View Post
ok, i share your opinion. But,
- can we suppose that 3G coverage can compensate - if not too expensive - no wi-fi coverage
Sure, I'm easy.

- can we work off-line by saving a local version , say a spreadsheet, which then we can edit w/ Gnumeric for instance
Both Gnumeric and Abiword work (for various values of "work") on my NaB00. The bottleneck, for me, is rapidly becoming the clumsy HWR of the ITOS.

- is there a better/perfect solution?
Why, my Newton. Obviously.
Except that it can hardly go online, has an ancient B/W screen and a file system that nothing in the Known Universe understands.
But it's a heck of a notetaker and numbercruncher.

about power consumption, that's clearly a bottleneck, can we expect that some decent saving will be made by OS improvement? or?
This is claimed by the short-term roadmap. However, note that noone gave a number for "decent". Also, no matter how much power might improve with a firmware update, the power available while online will always be significantly less than offline. And if you can only edit documents decently online, there will always be a disgruntled feeling (well, that's how I know I'll feel anyway).