[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo Upgrading] eaglesteve:
Leoni,

As a desktop device, eee is too small, too limited in functions, and too slow. I speak this from having enough experience using subnotebooks. Even when creating word documents (we create lots of user documentation, for example), we often have the transaction's screen on one window and word document on another window, and another window opening our msn chat. This is only one example why a small screen is too limiting. While some people just could not understand this no matter what I way, can you understand what I'm saying?

As a mobile device to complement the limited internet browsing capability of the smaller device, it is too big. It also lacks the instant on capability. With the extra battery battery the life might be extended, but just consider the hugh bulk of the battery in your link.

Can you also accept that my Athena works very well, and is truly mobile, with the way I use it (which is without keyboard, without case), and this is genuine contentment, despite the limitations in a few areas such as browser speed and phone? I've never once said that this is the best phone, best camera, best MP3 player in the world, although some would like to put that into my mouth. I look at the overall pluses and minuses. Is it such a crime to want a convergent device and being happy to have found one very close to it? If anyone wants to use a bag to carry bluetooth keyboard, the charger, that's their choice, but just remember option exist to use this differently to give true mobility. If anyone insist in not using the bluetooth and still complain about the size of the phone, that's also their choice, but just remember option exist to use it differently to make the phone useable. If a person's way of using the device result in it being seen as a brick, or result it requiring a bag, it does not mean that there is no alternative way of using it to solve the problem, is it?

Trying to insist to a person wanting a Royce to buy Toyota corolla does not make sense. If a car salesman wants to sell Corolla, he won't try to preach until the cow comes home to the Rolls Royce owner, if he has any cow sense. He would leave that area to the general public, but leaves the Rolls Royce owner alone to enjoy their car happily.

It is not so difficult to undestand and accept, is it?

As to your question on why do I need a big screen to see the share prices etc. It's like asking why do I need a big screen to see a spreadsheet. The chart uses very very tiny letters. On a QVGA screen, it is very difficult to clearly see the characters. Of course, a big screen is also needed for spreadsheet, word documents, internet browsing, etc. You are spot on in saying that the only thing that sets Athena apart is its large screen, and for me that's an advantage rather than a disadvantage, despite having made it a little bulky and heavy as compared to the other regular PDA phone. RealVGA demonstrates the full benefit in a large screen when I switch to 128 dpi. For me, 96 dpi is very difficult to use. If I use 128 dpi on a small VGA screen, it would be as small as the 96dpi in an Athena, so without the big screen, I don't see myself using RealVGA at all, and would be able to see even less. Am I making sense? That's why I think Athena without the keyboard is very close to the ideal size for a convergent device that is truely mobile. The next upgrade may go down to perhaps as small as 4.5 inch, but not any smaller for me to find it useful, and still readable in 128 dpi.