A New Toy

July 3, 2006

I purchased a new toy yesterday that I’m pretty excited about, a Treo 700p. I’ve been using Palms devices since they were made by 3COM. The main reason I stuck with them for so long is they are very well supported in Linux. Palm also makes a 700w which runs the Windows embedded OS. My friend Keven tells me he read a review that said the 700p has a more intuitive interface over the 700w.

So this Treo is 3 devices in one: a phone, a camera and a palm pilot. Those items purchased separately would probably run about $399, which is what the Treo cost me. Having them all in one device really beats the alternative, which surely involves some kind of fanny pack ;-)

Today I installed an open source SSH client on the Treo and was able to connect to my Debian server and run Emacs/Slime on the tiny 320×320 screen. My Treo is now a little Lisp Machine :-)