BargainPDA: Review of G.Mate YOPY YP-3700

“This device is geeky, and I mean Battlestar Galactica
geeky. Aside from the overall retro-futuristic design (‘twenty
years ago this is what the future looked like’) and the peculiar
10-by-5 button silver keyboard, there’s the rainbow coloured LEDs
on the front cover. If you close the YP-3700 without putting it in
standby mode, these eight LEDs flicker in sequence from left to
right and back, twice, letting you know that your YOPY is happy and
that technology is your friend. It’s cute, it’s silly, and everyone
I’ve shown it to loved it.

“The colourful LEDs are also triggered as a visual cue if you’ve
chosen to set an alarm for a scheduled event.

“In terms of software, my first impressions were that the
potential of the YOPY is huge, since it supports a very deep X
Windows GUI, and also that the HTML PIMs access via the cradle is
outstanding…”

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