from Palm TX to N900

[morgon]

Hi,

in the next couple of weeks I will probably make the jump from my beloved (but dying) Palm TX to either a N900 or a Droid.

One application that I would like to keep (or find a replacement for) is Repligo, a pdf document-viewer that allows me not only to zoom in an out of a document but also provides a "text-only" mode (essential for mobile ebook-consumption) and remembers (on a per-document basis) where you left off reading (i.e. the next time you open a document you start exactly where you left off).

afaik Evince cannot do that while Repligo would be available for Android.

I would however much prefer Maemo over Android.

So as far as I can see there would be two hopes for me:

Either there is a native application that can to for me what RepliGo does or I could try to run RepliGo in the GarnetVM.

Can someone please enlighten me as to whether or not this would be possible?

Also I would be interested in a side-by-side photo comparing sizes between N900 and the Palm TX - is anyone out there that still owns a TX and could make a shot?

Finally I would be interested in the battery life of the N900 when used in flight-mode (i.e. UMTS/WLAN/Bluetooth all off) - I expect that it would at least give me the runtime my TX provides me with (6 hrs) - is that realistic?

Many thanks!

[javispedro]

I can tell you that the N900 provides quite a bit less of always-on 100% CPU than the Palm T|X (torture test is in the 4 hours vicinity).
Of course, 100% CPU usage is not everyone's usual activity.

If you play any kind of emulators/games, it is, though. If you just read PDFs in offline mode I'm pretty sure it will handle around 6 hours. Also, unlike the Palm T|X, enabling Wi-Fi doesn't instantly kill the battery if the AP properly supports power saving features, and the great standby with Wi-Fi battery life is something I _really_ enjoyed when I made the jump from the Palm T|X to the N810 (whose battery life is unfortunately higher than the N900's).

Btw: There's nothing I know of anywhere near the quality and ease of use of RepliGo.
Though you'll find that reading "desktop", unreflowed PDF documents on the builtin PDF reader is acceptable*. Specially since the rendering speed is _miles_ ahead of anything PDF on the Palm T|X and even better than RepliGo's custom format. And the increased screen resolution.

*Though still not much usable for long ebooks. For my last ebook I used "Calibre" (a desktop e-book "manager" application) to convert from PDF to ePub, which I sent to FBReader on the N900. It worked nice, though it strips most images, fonts, etc.