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Q: PDA/notebook ( Answered 5 out of 5 stars,   1 Comment )
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Subject: PDA/notebook
Category: Computers > Hardware
Asked by: jashnimal-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 16 Jul 2003 08:39 PDT
Expires: 15 Aug 2003 08:39 PDT
Question ID: 231643
I am looking for this poduct were a guy i knew had, its very hard to
explane but i will try my best.
It looks like a normal PDA stuck to a note book witch has normal A4
paper, the one i say had the PDA on the left and normal paper on the
right, the strange thing is that when he started to wright on the
paper what ever was on that paper was stored on to the PDA, were he
can latter save or deleate it. That was about 2 years ago maybe there
is a newer version of it and a better one. I am looking for that
product and am not sure whats the name or price of it.

I would like please the name of similer products and or better ones. I
right lots of note and it a pain in the A$$ to have to look back for
them again, i am looking for a technology that will help me in that
case.
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Subject: Re: PDA/notebook
Answered By: wonko-ga on 16 Jul 2003 11:45 PDT
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
There are a few products in this category to consider.

Seiko has a product line that looks identical to what you were asking
about.  One version is called the SmartPad2 ($100).  There is also a
SmartPad ($70). The difference appears to be a QWERTY keyboard that
can be tapped using a stylus in the case of the SmartPad2.

http://www.siibusinessproducts.com/products/sp582.html (SmartPad2)
http://www.siibusinessproducts.com/products/sp580.html (SmartPad)

Here is a review of two other similar products:

http://www.siibusinessproducts.com/products/pdf/NYT021303.pdf

"Scrawl to Screen, With a Pen"
By DAVID POGUE, The New York Times, February 13, 2003

Logitech's Io pen(about $170)
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm?countryid=19&languageid=1&page=products/features/digitalwriting&CRID=1545

The Seiko Ink Link ($100)
http://www.siibusinessproducts.com/products/link-ir-p.html

According to the article, the disadvantage to the Logitech product is
that it requires special, fairly expensive paper.  If the paper is no
longer made in the future, then the product wouldn't work.  The Seiko
product doesn't require special paper.

A similar product, called the CrossPad, was made by IBM, but it has
been discontinued.  IBM also has a TransNote product, but it requires
a ThinkPad notebook computer, and it may also be discontinued.

I hope one of these products will meet your needs.  Please request
clarification if needed.

Sincerely,

Wonko
jashnimal-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars

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Subject: Re: PDA/notebook
From: andrewxmp-ga on 16 Jul 2003 10:56 PDT
 
Sounds like a precursor to a modern tablet PC to me.  My uncle had
something similar, with the actual paper and a tablet backing, but it
was hooked up to a laptop instead of a PDA.  Are you looking for
something that will do the same thing as this 2-year-old product you
saw?  Because since then there have been many new products that will
probably do the same thing and are cheaper and probably better.  Let
me know if you would like me to research some of those for you.

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