> Hi, I am new to this mailing list but have been reading with interest
> over the last couple of days about the possibilities of the OmniGo. I am
> interested in your feedback - is the OmniGo worth buying or is there a
> better PDA? Also if I do buy it where is the best mail order company to
> purchase from in the US?
Whether or not it's right for you depends on how you would use it. For
me, it fits right into my way of doing things. I used to keep important
notes/phone numbers on little scraps of paper. I'd be on the phone
discussing project A, but I'd keep notes on the same paper as project B.
Obviously, things kept getting lost, and my wallet was so full of little
scraps of paper, I hurt to carry it in my back pocket.
My favorite part of the Ogo is the Jotter, you can turn the machine on,
and in a couple seconds, you have a blank "scrap of paper" to write
whatever you need, either in text or by drawing. Then later, you can
move that note into the appropriate document. For ME, this makes this
little machine very usefull.
I also like the use of both the pen and the keyboard, I would not want to
be limited to one or the other. Yesterday I was at Comdex watching some
MicroSoft presentation, and was taking notes on the Ogo on my lap. I had
it turned around in Vertical Mode, and was entering text use the pen and
Graffiti. It worked great, it was better than paper. I didn't have to
look down at all.
(Graffiti is a handwriting recognition system that uses secial shorthand
characters that use only one stroke per letter. You have to learn it,
but it's not too hard. It lets you enter text with out looking because
you can write with the pen anywhere on the screen, and write each letter
over the last one. The actual text is "typed" in wherever the cursor is.)
The bad news is that it is a lower end machine. It has low RAM and
questionable support for it's PCMCIA slot. It's also kinda slow. But
it's cheaper than the others, so what do you expect?
I'm waiting for a serial cable to arrive today so I can connect it to a PC,
and I want to get a modem to work with it. If I can get all that to work
the way I like, I'll keep it.
Be sure to buy it from a place you can return it for any reason and try
it out for yourself.
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Michael Halleen Foresee Active Media www.foresee.com
Chicago, IL The Grand Area www.mcs.com/~halleen/
PGP me for my finger