I've had an OnHand for over a year now, bought it when they were $179. Battery life is just fine if you set it so that the screen turns itself off automatically; if it's on 24-7, the batteries last about a day and a half. Which it warns you about in the instructions!
I use it a lot to view simple spreadsheets. For example, I can never keep all the numbers and specifications of some of the hobby rocket motors I sell in my head. I worked out a simple Excel sheet, saved it as comma-delimited, and used the CSV Viewer on the OnHand to view it. Now I can be out in the middle of a rocket range and pull up exact numbers by looking at my watch. Not too darn bad. There are also some nifty games available for times where you're stuck somewhere without a book.
Not a bad little gadget. Does what it's advertised to do. Very durable. And I used the alarm-composing utility to set it up to play the theme from "Thunderbirds." Take that, ring-tone downloaders!
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Doug Pratt @ Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM
I've had an OnHand for over a year now, bought it when they were $179. Battery life is just fine if you set it so that the screen turns itself off automatically; if it's on 24-7, the batteries last about a day and a half. Which it warns you about in the instructions!
I use it a lot to view simple spreadsheets. For example, I can never keep all the numbers and specifications of some of the hobby rocket motors I sell in my head. I worked out a simple Excel sheet, saved it as comma-delimited, and used the CSV Viewer on the OnHand to view it. Now I can be out in the middle of a rocket range and pull up exact numbers by looking at my watch. Not too darn bad. There are also some nifty games available for times where you're stuck somewhere without a book.
Not a bad little gadget. Does what it's advertised to do. Very durable. And I used the alarm-composing utility to set it up to play the theme from "Thunderbirds." Take that, ring-tone downloaders!