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Are there *any* good high-end Linux-friendly PDAs out there?



On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 08:09:28AM +0000, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hm.  The hardware *does* have a suspend mode: when you slide the case
> over the front of the device (I'd love to figure out how this works,
> since there's no contact and no light sensor)

There's a magnetic switch on the bottom rim of the screen/on the cover. 

>  the device goes entirely
> to sleep.  Having this hardware suspend is a disadvantage for me -- it
> means I have to leave the screen exposed if I want to play mp3s or have
> the device poll for new e-mail while doing other things.

Yeah, I wish there was a way to override it - let the screen go black but
keep the 770 running. Would be very useful for the asterisk port, for
instance...

Ward.

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