[GRLUG] Android PDA

[Benjamin Flanders]

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Ron Lauzon <rlauzon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Benjamin Flanders wrote:
>> My wife commandeered my iPod touch, which I was using as a PDA.  Do
>> any of you use, or heard of, a good android iPod Touch replacement.
>>
>> The touch was really almost exactly what I was looking for in a PDA;
>> small, light, good battery life, wifi, music, games, ebooks, email
>> etc.
>>
>> I like the open idea behind the android OS and the fact that it is now
>> getting some steam behind it with, as far as I know, all the apps that
>> I am used to on the touch
>
> Good luck finding a PDA.  They seem to have disappeared from the market.
>
> When my Palm TX finally started to die, I looked around and found...
> nothing.
>
> PDAs have been absorbed into cell phones.  You can't get just a PDA anymore.
>
> I ended up getting a Droid, which works very well (but Eric S. Raymond's
> Google Nexus One he had at Penguicon looked really nice).
>
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I would posit that straight PDA's aren't needed anymore.  When you add
wifi and apps to a touch screen mp3 player, it turns that into a
mighty fine PDA.

In my opinion, The only thing that the touch needed to be a perfect
PDA was better interoperability, and optimally, a camera.  I would
like UMS so I can move music, videos, photos, and ebooks too and from
the device easily from any darn OS and program I choose to use.

So my question was really looking for an android iPod Touch
replacement.  I could see there being a device with all the features
of the Google one except for the cell phone.  The Zii Egg looks
promising except it isn't out yet except for an expensive dev kit.







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Ben