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Palm Makes a Pocket PC - A new handheld for people with bad handwriting. By Paul?Boutin:
Palm Makes a Pocket PC
A new handheld for people with bad handwriting.
By Paul Boutin
Posted
Monday, May 5, 2003, at 3:25 PM PT
Tungsten C I've always hated the
PalmPilot. Its hotshot handwriting-recognition software seems programmed to
reject mine. Scribbling into Palm's stylus-driven Graffiti interface evokes
painful memories of grade-school penmanship class, where teachers quipped that I
was sure to become a doctor with handwriting like that.
But the company's new Tungsten C, which goes on sale worldwide today, is at
last a Palm for Webheads who can't write. More important than the 400 MHz Intel
CPU inside (my last PC wasn't that fast), the lower end of its faceplace sports
a tiny thumb keyboard akin to the Blackberry PDAs toted by Unix systems administrators, Silicon
Valley capitalists, and Capitol Hill staffers. You can still use a stylus if you
want, but why bother? After years of frustration with Graffiti, learning to
thumb a one-eighth scale keyboard?punctuated with an occasional stab of the
stylus?took about 30 seconds. It felt like mastering the Matrix.
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wireless and portable
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5/5/2003 11:21 PM
john
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