Comments on: Smart Caddie event held in Japan http://gigaom.com/mobile/smart_caddie_ev/ Fri, 25 May 2012 16:59:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ron C http://gigaom.com/mobile/smart_caddie_ev/#comment-43223 Sun, 09 Apr 2006 17:27:11 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2006/04/07/smart_caddie_ev#comment-43223 I don’t know if this has been discussed before but the lack of ANY flash media slots on either this or the Kiosk version is an absolute deal breaker for me.
Am I missing something? Is the idea that we should go with USB card readers when we want to use removable media going to go over with you guys?

Slightly OT but I would like to raise this issue and would really love to hear some opinions. I have been a die-hard e800 evangelist for the past couple of years now. If Toshiba would let on about their plans for Origami type products I might even hold off for a few more months before getting a UMPC.

But… I have a MESSLOAD of cash invested in PocketPC software. (You name, I probably use it; PocketInformant, SoftMaker Office, lots of Japanese learning apps, PhatNotes, Calligrapher, etc. etc.) Is there any way to leverage this investment into the UMPC?

Am I going to have to eat the loss in software if I move up to Origami? I was hoping that someone, somewhere, who is a lot smarter than me had already run into this issue and had developed an emulator to allow PPC programs to function “within a window on the desktop of the tablet PC” like they would on a PPC.

This issue alone was the one reason I had my heart set on the DualCore. Any news here? Any advice???

Thanks
Ron C

]]> By: Frank J (ctitanic) http://gigaom.com/mobile/smart_caddie_ev/#comment-43224 Sat, 08 Apr 2006 08:17:03 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2006/04/07/smart_caddie_ev#comment-43224 BTW, the release date in japan is April, 14th. Ten days before USA.

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