Re: OmniGo 100 specs

Brian Smithson (brian@eit.COM)
Wed, 18 Oct 1995 09:49:02 -0700

On Oct 18, 1:44pm, Peter Merel wrote:
> Subject: Re: OmniGo 100 specs
>
> Bloody hell, this thing's a toy. I'm hanging on to my zoomer. The
> *only* improvement is a landscape mode for the screen, but with such a
> little display there's not much point - can't even fit 80 columns of
> text across it! And where's the 386? And no flash cards? And
> what's the battery life like with only 2 AAs? Looks to me like HP's
> just trying to preserve the shelf-life of their 200LX :-(
>
> What does this half-a-zoomer cost? Hey, "the omer", where have I heard
> that before?

I agree. The 240x240 screen size (Zoomers are 320x256) is a big problem,
and I think that 1MB of RAM is silly given the increase in RAM density
since the Zoomer's introduction. The '186 processor is the same thing
they're using in other products while they await some new chips from AMD
(see previous zoomer-list mail about that). The list price is $349.

On the other hand, I like the packaging (and thought I wouldn't), the
rotated display is very nice (anyone know how to do that with GEOS
2.X?), and I imagine that the bundled software has many improvements
over the Zoomer's bundled software.

Still, it seems to be crying for an upgraded model right away, not
unlike the HP95LX was when it was introduced. Or, perhaps H-P really is
positioning it as a toy -- it's their first "organizer", after all --
and they don't want to chew into their market for the OmniGo 700 and
other new DOS-based stuff.

So now I'm waiting for the OmniGo 110 :-). Anyone have any rumors to
share about that?

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