HTC (High Tech Computers) is an electronics firm in Taiwan. 
The "Magician" is a cellphone/[PDA] [PocketPC] with very small dimensions (2.8" screen diagonal, 
while having the same 240x320 pixels in 64K colors). ''("the same" as what?) [RS]: other PocketPCs''

[http://212.213.255.72/keepthls/bigpic/o2xda2sm.gif]
[http://mini.net/files/capture.jpg]

The Magician is typically sold branded by mobile phone companies:
   * O2 XDA mini
   * T-Mobile MDA compact

[RS] bought an XDA mini on July 11, 2005, and so far is pretty happy with it. 
Tcl, and all the apps and games as announced on the [PocketPC] page, run well on it - 
it was only necessary to increase some of the font sizes, 
as the screen is only half as big as the [iPaq]'s. - 
2005-08-11: A month later I have to notice that O2 Germany lowered the price to 130€ 
(from the 200€ that I paid)... 
2005-08-16: At a family reunion, I had to demonstrate it to my little nephews and nieces. 
Games like [Memory 2] or [Nine men morris] were well received, as was the animation [trains3.tcl] - 
on [Tclkit Mobile] 3, so ovals would show. I mentioned [Toy cars], and of course the boys wanted to see it. 
So I pointed IE to fetch, via GPRS, wsp://wiki.tcl.tk/toy%20cars 
(my phone plan disallows use of [HTTP], but IE brings the pages well enough if masqueraded as WSP :) 
Select all - Copy, paste into an empty .txt document - and frustration: all line breaks had gone. 
And they do matter in Tcl... 
So I inserted newlines wherever I thought they belonged, but still missed some. 
At that time, everybody went for an afternoon walk, so I joined, 
but every now and then I would stand still, examine an error message, fix it in the source... 
and by the time we were back in the house, [Toy cars] were up and running on the little thing as well. Hooray for mobile computing - and Tcl :)

With O2 (Germany) GPRS/WAP tariff, one cannot use ''http:'' [URL]s. 
But many of them work by just changing the protocol name to ''wsp:'' 
Then the 5 EUR/month flat rate very soon becomes worth it.

[RLH] - That is a nifty looking device. I wish they had a straight PDA version. - 
[RS] Just take out the SIM card to be unconnected :)

See also: [Sepp]

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