Wednesday, May 1, 2002
Toshiba e310 getting good reviews
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "ARTICLE" @ 04:50 AM
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2863174,00.html
ZDNet has some great things to say about the new Toshiba e310. "Even if they still don't sell at quite the same rate as Palm OS-based PDAs, Pocket PCs have won several battles over the years. The hardware is more advanced. The software can do a lot more. And with the release last fall of Pocket PC 2002, the operating system is getting nearly as easy to use. The only areas where Pocket PCs still can't match Palms is size and weight--not to mention their big price tags."
Oh, wait. That is good things about the Pocket PC in general! ;-) Here we go. "In our humble opinion, the e310 is the most significant improvement in Pocket PC design since Compaq introduced the original iPaq" and "At first glance, in fact, you would assume the e310 was a Palm OS device. At 4.9 ounces, it actually weighs the same as the Palm m515, and is significantly lighter than the iPaq H3835, which weighs in at 6.7 ounces." CNet has also been giving good reviews of the e310 with such comments as "The e310 has all the makings of a groundbreaking product that will have the kind of impact on the PDA market that the original iPaq did" and "... everything points toward the e310 being the product that bridges the design and economic gap between Palm OS-powered devices and Pocket PCs. Sorry, folks, but it looks like the choice of which handheld to buy just got a little harder."
The only real downside I see to the e310 is the 32MB of RAM, and being a new product, great third party peripherals like a Stowaway Keyboard simply don't exist yet. But if this comes to the US in quantity and at the $399 price level it could well be a groundbreaking prodcut CNet predicts.
ZDNet has some great things to say about the new Toshiba e310. "Even if they still don't sell at quite the same rate as Palm OS-based PDAs, Pocket PCs have won several battles over the years. The hardware is more advanced. The software can do a lot more. And with the release last fall of Pocket PC 2002, the operating system is getting nearly as easy to use. The only areas where Pocket PCs still can't match Palms is size and weight--not to mention their big price tags."
Oh, wait. That is good things about the Pocket PC in general! ;-) Here we go. "In our humble opinion, the e310 is the most significant improvement in Pocket PC design since Compaq introduced the original iPaq" and "At first glance, in fact, you would assume the e310 was a Palm OS device. At 4.9 ounces, it actually weighs the same as the Palm m515, and is significantly lighter than the iPaq H3835, which weighs in at 6.7 ounces." CNet has also been giving good reviews of the e310 with such comments as "The e310 has all the makings of a groundbreaking product that will have the kind of impact on the PDA market that the original iPaq did" and "... everything points toward the e310 being the product that bridges the design and economic gap between Palm OS-powered devices and Pocket PCs. Sorry, folks, but it looks like the choice of which handheld to buy just got a little harder."
The only real downside I see to the e310 is the 32MB of RAM, and being a new product, great third party peripherals like a Stowaway Keyboard simply don't exist yet. But if this comes to the US in quantity and at the $399 price level it could well be a groundbreaking prodcut CNet predicts.
