2008-08-08

I was looking for PDA

Several months ago, I was thinking about some PDA to buy. It's a very useful thing allowing you to organize your time with calendar, listen to mp3s, watch movies, browse internet, play games and so on. I was speculating about HTC Kaiser. It's a little box with loads of functions inside. It runs on Windows Mobile, which is good, because there are tons of programs for this system on the Internet. Kaiser's got a separated full qwerty keyboard so there is no software keyboard which would make your screen size smaller. The screen resolution is 320x240 which is not a cinema canvas but it's workable. Moreover Kaiser has a GPS module so can be used as a navigation on your trip. On the other hand, Kaiser is quite expensive and when I had it in my hands, in the shop, it got stucked and the processor wasn't as fast as I expected..
This is a photo of HTC Kaiser:



But than, while googling for another PDA, I found iPod Touch, which looked really amazing to me. The screen resolution of Touch is 480x320, which is twice larger than Kaiser's and the cost is twice smaller. When I saw the parameters, I couldn't belive. Actually, it's iPhone without the phone :p. Touch's got WiFi so you can browse Internet, mail, watch videos on Youtube and lots more. Moreover Touch has an accelerometer, which detects when you rotate it from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display, so you immediately see the entire width of a web page, your music in Cover Flow, or a photo in its proper aspect ratio.

Accelerometer in iPod Touch:

It's so sensitive that some games are based on it and you just control them by tilting.

Wathing videos on the 3.5inch display isn't really bad. You just need to convert the video movies into the right resolution and it must be mpeg. I use MediaCoder Iphone edition and it works pretty fine.

So in the end, I choosed Touch. Actually I ordered it the same day when i saw it :p. I was just afraid because lots of people say on the internet that it's just a movie&mp3 player and a web browser, nothing else, because the system is blocked for installing other apps. And it's true. And when i first tried to jailbreak Touch, it took me about a day. But after a little googling I found program which unblocked and jailbroke and made all the stuff in 10 minutes and it was immediately ready to use.

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