The ability to rotate the screen is both snappy and quite fast in it's
redrawing.
The applications were formatted differently than their couterparts in the
zoomer which made me wonder how I would ever import data from my present zoomer
apps to the ones in the OmniGo. Has anyone tried this yet?
The feel of it in my hand was comfortable and it was truly a temptation to buy
it on the spot. But I think I will hold out for the 386 based geos machine
that is rumored coming from Hyundai. Or maybe not, I'm such a sucker for
electronic gadgets.
The sales guy was basically clueless as to all the specs and nuances of the
system. He was not even familiar with GEOS for that matter. He did say that
the cable to link it with a PC costs around $50 or so. The unit I looked at
did not have a pcmcia sram card onboard, though he seemed to think that it
would come with one. We tried calling HP tech support to ask them if they knew
whether apps that ran on a Zoomer would run on the OmniGo. No dice. In fact,
HP was quite surprised that Service Merchandise had been marketing the Omnigo
100 since this past weekend! The tech support guy at HP said that they were
still shooting for a release date of 15 November. Amazing.
All in all, and based only on the ten minutes or so that I played with the
display unit, it seems like a real nice organizer type device. As y'all know,
it's got real limited connectivity built-in and I have not seen any posting yet
on someone getting a pcmcia modem to work on it. By the way, the connector it
had looked nothing like the Zoomer's serial port. Who knows if it will talk to
an external modem.
dom