[TriLUG] Linux PDAs

[davis]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:41:43PM -0500, Ilan Volow wrote:

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> Sharp, the Zaurus hardware folks, are just as guilty of making the  
> Zaurus suck as a PDA as Trolltech are. These dimwits put the power  
> button for the Zaurus on the *outside* of the PDA. It's not protected  
> by anything (the button is actually raised), and more than once I've  
> taken my Zaurus out of my pocket only to find it's already running  
> (other times I take it out and find the battery is already dead). There  

I use a hackmaster mod on my old, palm III so that I have to 
press the scrollbar down at the same time I press the power button to turn
on the unit.  Otherwise, I find that myself in the same situation you
descibe above.  ie. the unit is turned on accidentally from when its put
in my pocket.

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