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"D2Audio's new family of Geneva Sound Systems are a single cabinet unit which incorporates multiple speakers internally to deliver an incredibly broad audio sweet spot for iPod music players, as well as CDs and radio. Powerful enough for a house party with its full 600 watts of stereo, it has an iPod dock, built-in slot-loading CD, FM radio and supports multiple audio sources."
Read more at Gizmag
- Jennifer Chappell, Technology Editor, (NC, US)
Firstly checking PA through the mobile page and thanks to Jan and Jennifer for running the site in my absence. I'm updating mobile through the 650 and can I say Jenny that's a great idea about the immigration forms by the way. Anyway here is a little something I typed on the 650 earlier on the plane flying in[Demo]. Oh by the way I am now in NYC and boy is it cold. Anyway onto Pocket Tunes.
I'm amazed at the sound and quality of Pocket Tunes its very much like Pocket Tunes which boy I never expected but saying that I do know Pocket Tunes is terrific anyway. But the sound volume and quality.
By the way battery strength on Treo has not dipped below 70 percent. Did Palm give me a one off Treo so that all I w do is shout how good it is? I'm going to guess they are all like this. Just south of Bangor, PalmAddicts in Boston I can almost see you. Boston from what I have seen looks a lovely city and I know that the readers who email me from Boston are always very nice people.
Be sure to go and check out the photos and details that Engadget has on the new Sony Reader!
- Jennifer Chappell, Technology Editor, (NC, US)
From Samsung to Sony to Sandisk, everyone wants a piece of Apple's pie in the portable digital music player market, where the iPod reigns.
Sandisk Corp. expects to make it a "two-horse race" in the chip-based memory segment of the market, led by the iPod Nano, and XM Satellite Radio Inc. ran magazine advertisements for its Samsung Electronics-designed MP3 player that said: "It's not a Pod, It's the Mothership."
Read more at Reuters India
- Jennifer Chappell, Technology Editor, (NC, US)
"Due in February is this neat collection of nano wannabees the NL13001. They come in both black and white, like the Apple player and have a big cross on them which doubles as the menu control system. They play MP3 and WMA files have a built in voice recorder and FM tuner and their own Lithium rechargeable battery."
via Tech Digest
- Jennifer Chappell, Technology Editor, (NC, US)
Press Release
Easy to use development tool can be used on device or on desktop...
January 04, 2006 -- NS BASIC Corporation today announced the immediate availability of NS Basic/CE 6.0 on the Palm Treo 700w smartphone.
NS Basic/CE is a VB-like development tool. It allows you to create applications on a Windows desktop computer which will run on Windows CE devices, now including the Palm Treo 700w smartphone. A unique feature of the development tool is that it can also be used on the device itself. With the 700w's alpha keyboard, complex applications can be effectively created and debugged directly on the unit.
"We've worked hard to make NS Basic/CE easy to use." said George Henne, President of NS BASIC Corporation. "Porting it onto the 700w gives developers a flexible and powerful solution for developing applications for this device."
The Palm Treo 700w smartphone runs Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0. With 60 megs of usable memory and an expansion slot for more, powerful applications can be developed.
Existing NS Basic/CE applications will be able to run on the Treo 700w, in most cases without modification except for screen size. This allows the huge base of NS Basic/CE applications and developers to make immediate use of this device.
More about NS Basic/CE
NS Basic allows developers who program with tools such as Visual Basic to use their experience to develop applications for Windows CE devices. NS Basic/CE is a complete, powerful development environment enabling the development of applications for the enterprise, business, personal productivity and eduction. It includes features such as databases, net, serial and IR communications, signature capture and more. Development takes place on the desktop or on the device itself.
Applications developed with NS Basic/CE are distributed royalty free. NS Basic/CE 6.0 costs $149.95 for a single user. Enterprise licenses are also available. The toolkit allows development on Windows 98SE, 2000, XP or directly on the device itself.
About NS BASIC Corporation
NS Basic/CE is one of the most widely used Windows CE development tools. NS BASIC Corporation has been a leading creator of development tools for handheld devices since 1993. More than 15,000 developers in over 60 countries use NS BASIC's tools for Palm OS, Windows CE and Newton.
Here are some useful pointers for more information:
Palm Treo 700w smartphone
Desktop Tour
Device Tour
FAQ
Specifications
Converting from eVB
For more information, please contact us at info@nsbasic.com.
(Sammy's actual suitcase. :)
HI Jan,
Noticed Sammy said the Treo couldn't help him with immigration and customs declaration forms. Yes it can! Use the camera to take pictures of completed forms and no more looking up all the data on the next trip!
- Tracy (just call me ThingyT)
Hi Jan! Thanks for watching PalmAddicts and keeping it updated! Here is something i ran into today I was able to fix after a few hours. For the benefit of others.....
DBcacheTool is an interesting tool for T5 and other NVFS memory type devcies ( I read it works on the Treo too)!
This program clears out the cache on NVFS type machines.
This snippet is from resco.net explains the issue
....NVFS databases can't be accessed directly. Therefore Palm OS reserves part of RAM called DbCache. Prior to its use the databases are copied from NVFS to the DbCache and after the use they are copied back (if changed). DbCache gets subsequently filled because the databases are not immediately purged from the DbCache, but (for performance reasons) stay in the cache as long as there is enough
space.
On T5 the DbCache has 10 MB and it is considered full when the free space reaches approx. 1MB.
DbCache can be emptied only via reset!
NVFS Bugs ---
It is known fact that the NVFS implementation is not reliable. As a rule, the problems manifest when the DbCache is full.
Our stress tests indicated that certain Palm OS services for the database access fail in 0.1% cases when the DbCache is full. There exist workarounds for most of the cases -unfortunately not for all. (E.g. when Palm OS itself uses these services.)
In my case I had an issue with Dataviz Beyond contacts in that in full screen application would reset the TX. I removed the entire app and all data against it and reinstalled it. I got it working on 320x320 screen but not 320x480. Dataviz explains (according to Support Knowledgebase) that this type of issue is caused by a corrupted palm preference file and the only way to get rid of it is a hard reset! Well I did not want to reinstall eveything so I tried multiple ways to clean out the gremlin and I researched the issue on the web (like a needle in the haystack). then I found DBcache and tried it and it worked!!!!!!!!! I guess the Palm Prefence file lay in the cache and I had to clear it out and recreate it which I couldn't with my use of Resco Explorer, Unistaller, Cleanup and Palm delete and warm resets. Just a tip for any of you that may have some gremlins you can't seem to get rid of. Try DBcache when all else fails and you don't want to hard reset your PDA!
Here is the link for the forum.
- Andy Berrios
I'm an hour and a half away just crossing St John and Halifax and in my reckoning I would say I am about an hour and a half away from New York. Slept for four and a half hours almost on the plane due to the fact that I was up to 4am last night (Jan will shout at me now) and then 2am the night before with the Treo launches but I love it really. Anyway the last hour I'll listen to some music in Pocket Tunes and fill in four copies of the waiver and immigration forms because I'm useless with them and despite the number of times you guys welcome me to New York I cannot get those damm forns right. Sorry the Treo cant help me there.
OK it looks like I am an hour or so away from the New York Metro area still over 80 percent battery power left on the Treo so what does that say about? Well it means I must use my Treo more even though I have used my Treo for the last 3000 miles to liisten to my tunes and the lesson there is to use it more to burn out the battery :-) dows this think never battery drain?
