Omnigo or Pilot

Achyutram Bhamidipaty (ram@epic.com)
Tue, 13 Aug 1996 09:24:26 -0700

I'm going to be getting a PDA of some sort Real Soon Now,
but I'm not certain which one I want. I had orginially
thought that I would get the OmniGo, but i've recently
started to see so much traffic about the Pilot that I
am considering it.

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Here is some of the information that I have now:

The OmniGo appears to be a physically rugged design. But
its also bigger and heavier.

The pilot is smaller and lighter, but I've seen several
posts about people dropping their pilots and having the
thing crack.

The pilot also appears to be more responsive to user input
and has a longer battery life.

If anyone can add to this that would be great.

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I also have some questions:

How much does it cost to get the software development kit
for the OmniGo or Pilot.

Is it possible to use the Pilot with non-DOS machines to
sync the data in the PDA? From stuff I have seen on the
internet the omnigo can export/import its data as a simple text
file. So I'm pretty certain that I could use the omnigo with
a unix machine (my primary platform). How hard would this
be with the pilot?

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Any other comments or ideas would be great.

-Ram
ramb@primenet.com or ram@epic.com