Tuesday, August 13, 2002
Arne looks at the Loox Part 2
Posted by Jason Dunn in "ARTICLE" @ 12:00 PM
http://www.ppcw.net/stories.php?story=02/08/13/6744215
Arne has spent some time with the Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket Loox lately, and his review reflects his thoughts and findings. Worth a read if you're considering the Loox!
"The Pocket Loox makes its work pretty well and it includes everything you need to start using your device from the scratch. I like it, that Fujitsu Siemens adds so much additional 3rd party software and they don't take any Freeware/Shareware versions only not you will get a real valuable software pack with your device. From the performance site I was a little bit irritated or maybe not. Even if no StrongARM Pocket PC can compares with the Loox in the benchmark tests, in reality I didn't found the speed. Well, unfortunately this is something I've seen already before with the Compaq iPAQ H3970. It seems that the XScale CPU can not deploy its power on today's Windows CE 3.0 platform - unfortunately. However, it's not slower than StrongARM Pocket PCs and finally that's the most important. Also I think, in the long-run we will see XScale optimized versions of Windows CE as well as of today's 3rd party applications. On the other hand, the stand-by time is great and makes the Pocket Loox more than useful for day in day out usage!"
Arne has spent some time with the Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket Loox lately, and his review reflects his thoughts and findings. Worth a read if you're considering the Loox!
"The Pocket Loox makes its work pretty well and it includes everything you need to start using your device from the scratch. I like it, that Fujitsu Siemens adds so much additional 3rd party software and they don't take any Freeware/Shareware versions only not you will get a real valuable software pack with your device. From the performance site I was a little bit irritated or maybe not. Even if no StrongARM Pocket PC can compares with the Loox in the benchmark tests, in reality I didn't found the speed. Well, unfortunately this is something I've seen already before with the Compaq iPAQ H3970. It seems that the XScale CPU can not deploy its power on today's Windows CE 3.0 platform - unfortunately. However, it's not slower than StrongARM Pocket PCs and finally that's the most important. Also I think, in the long-run we will see XScale optimized versions of Windows CE as well as of today's 3rd party applications. On the other hand, the stand-by time is great and makes the Pocket Loox more than useful for day in day out usage!"
