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- From: nbl@solomon.technet.sg (Ng Beng Lim)
- Subject: Re: Brand New SHARP IQ9000 - infos wanted
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 09:48:09 GMT
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- It's available here in Singapore under the name IQ9000. They are selling
- x-it here for S$799, which sould be about US$490.
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- I don't quite like it. Although the graphics look fantastic and the
- scheduling looks better, the system is still very closed. Its support for
- the cards is also very awkward. The screen turns back to 40x8, and the
- words become very small. The touchpad on the external cards are not used
- at all but instead the pictures are actually simulated on the new bigger
- LCD screen (hence the orignal 40x8 screen becomes very small).
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- It has infrared support, but I don't know if anyone one has figured out
- how the program it like the IR95 program?
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- The selling point is also the pen interface. However, this interface is
- of minimal use (How much drawings can you fit into the small screen with
- the big pen nib?) I believe it is more gimmicky than useful.
-
- Just a few of my observations.
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