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]

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 [tkm3] 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 :)

[RLH] - That is a nifty looking device. I wish they had a straight PDA version.

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