Asus A716 Giveaway

[Simply Emo]

(Wireless Asus)

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My Life In Ones And Zeros

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Basically, I would use it to release my thoughts into iambic verse and writing to entertain the brain, like the Discovery Channel without all that interior decorating programming...

[bartybot]

[pmradio]

After sitting at the computer for hours, trying to win a Pocket PC with Wi-Fi, I think I need a new hobby, one that doesn't require sitting at the computer for great lengths of time. So, I think would be lots of fun. Walking around trying to find Wi-Fi spots would be really draining on the battery, so the A716 would be essential. That, and some chalk.

[cstaats]

I am the IT Director for a medical management company and I would be using the Asus PocketPC primarily for contact management and calendaring, but the more advanced features would be the most benefit to my particular position. The wireless would make an easy, portable way to connect to the internet through my Bluetooth cellphone, and the 802.11 would make a great, very portable solution to site surveys at locations that will be needing full wireless saturation throughout. The multimedia would be great for plane trips and hotel rooms as I would get maybe a 512MB or 1GB CF or SD card and put a couple of DVD movies on it. I would put my inventory and site info lists(Excel, Word) on the PocketPC so I could pull them up when I get phone calls on the go. Gaming would be another use, as I enjoy strategy and arcade games and the multimedia proficieny of the Asus 716 will be great for the entertainment as well.

[Michael Y]

[head]

[Mr X]

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[dtbogor]

[dt_bogor]

[Hejca]

[tadpole]

I used to come to these forums ALOT but I can't visit as much as I would like.
My wife told me about your giveaway so here goes;

I am currently station in IRAQ.
The makeshift base has a small wireless "cafe" set up primarily for e-mail use.

The battery life would be great for reading E-books or listening to music, and watching video clips from my family.

With the WiFi, I could get an instant messaging program and PIM my father in the hospital when I had the chance, and send E-Mails and pictures to my family.

I would use the unit mostly for communicating with my family when I could get the chance, right now I rely on important messages relayed to me from Western Union, which is outragously expensive.
My father is currently in the hospital with cancer, and has only a month or two left in him. And I will not be back for at least 4 more months.
He cannot have radiation therapy because it will kill him faster than the cancer will.
I used to E-Mail him everyday when I was stateside, now that I am over here, I have been looking for a way to at least let him know how things are going, and it's been a few weeks since I last was able to contact him.

If I was to win this PocketPC, I would get a CF Digital Camera and use it to send pictures and messages to my father.
That would basically be my main reason for the a716.


Thank you for your time, and keep up the great work.

[dborgohain]

[omikron.sk]

How would I use an Asus A716 ? You know I'm pretty much on the go and I am a web-sites programmer. Using New Asus would finnaly make me able to do following (example):
1. my friends cals me / sends me an e-mail message / sends me an ICQ (MSN Messenger) message - that it would be nice if a new future on our great website would be available. I currently sit in the train on my everyday travel home (or to school/work).
2. i turn on my great Asus
3. the first thing i see, is that I forgot to recharge it again, but even though I used a bluetooth connection to connect over GPRS and a Wi-Fi connection to connect when in work, there is still more than 60% of battery left, so there will be no problem to work with it.
4. I download the actual version of our great website directly from the server (using BT/GPRS).
5. I'm gonna start my PocketASP server and SQL CE server on that I can develop new future. Everything works fine, because PocketASP is almost fully compatible with "big" ASP and SQL CE with MySQL.
6. I realize that it would be nice if there was any graphic on the top of the page with new future. After spending some minutes by creating "something beautiful" in Pocket Paninter or similar program I finaly realize, that my art capabilities did not grow from last time I tried this and are still at level ZERO.
So it comes time for SDIO slot and digital camera pluged-in it. After making a few shots and capturing short video of outside-the-window-nature, there will be no problem to take out some nice pictures and only a liitle change them. Placing them on the site is no problem using PocketHTML.Net or whatever.
7. After a little bit of testing my ASP code, I put the site back on the site and send a mail to a friend that everything is done.
8. After sending a mail my boss calls my, that our firm critical application stucks. OK. I get myself connected and connect thru Terminal Services Client to the server to debug the code and make it run. Problem was luckilly solved and I get another + at my boss, because he knows that I'm currently in a train waiting for arrival to my destination.
9. Now, I know I have an exam at school yesterday. Know I've got 2 possibilities: to learn lots of text, that I almost do not understand and spend a few hours by something that is such boring and time-wasting that I would rather shepherd some sheeps in the fields. The other posibility is to cheat (CHILDREN: STOP READING!!!) and make a "ťahák" (by the hell I know this is a SLOVAK word [ you know - Slovakia - that small country in the middle of Europe ], but I don't know how it is in English - "ťahák" - it is a small piece of paper, where you write everything essential what you should know to make the exam using as small letters as possible). I don't think it will be difficult to guess which possibility I'm gonna choose - the cheating, of course. So I take my Asus and begin with www.referaty.sk - site full of "ťahák"s. Then I take a few of those and put them togeather - to perfectly fit my needs. (everything in Pocket IE and Pocket Word, of course). Now here comes the ticket-collector. Suprisingly he's got an old iPaq 3870 (or something like that) and a BT-printer to print and sell tickets on the go. He looks at my Asus and we suddenly fall into conversation about Pocket PC. At the end I cajole him to print my "ťahák" on his BT printer. It's not the best quality, but it's still readable, so there's no problem with that.
10. The rest of my way home a spend by watching some movie or listining to some music on my CF (or possible streamed thru IT connection).
11. When I finnaly get home I've got everything done except of sending you a thanking letter for this awesome machine

P.S.: I'm sorry for my incorrect English, but you know - I live in that small country in the middle of Europe (it's called Slovakia) in the small city of Košice [about 200.000 inhabbitans] - which is actually the second biggest in Slovakia - and I don't speak English everyday.
P.P.S.: One more thing - did you know that the Slovakia was a Ice-Hockey world champion a year ago? Yeah, it was.

Omikron is a proud Slovak.

[Scr33ch]

They main use would be as a remote for my multimedia center. Think about it... you could preview songs or videos on the remote while something else is on the entertainment system. Using a database of all the CD and DVD and their location in the changer would make finding that 1 song you really need to hear right now possible and easy. My computer and entertainment systems are already well integrated with each other. I could control software on the computer via the WiFi and the IR port in the Audigy Platnium's Live Drive device. I could add an RF remote module to control the satellite receiver from other rooms in the house (as long as it doesn’t interfere with the WiFi access). The rest of the system would be controlled by the normal IR method. I know I could write the software (as time permits) for myself that could do all of this.

When I can’t have the luxury of being home watching a movie with the family I could still find plenty of uses for this little beast. Use it to catch up on Red vs Blue episodes during lunch. Go online anywhere I want. Should there be no accessible WAP nearby I'll just use my trusty Nokia 6200 as an IR modem. And, maybe get involved with mapping out any other wireless networks in the area, if any exist out here in “no man’s land”. And my really aged e310(had to get the main board replaced already, I use it all the time) would get passed to my best friend, if my better half doesn't want it. This means that the asus would do everything I do with my e310 now, eCheckBook, contacts, playing quake(well trying to), notes and anything else I can throw at it.

Oh, and if I won, most of the guys I work would be very jealous. Oh well, I forwarded this topic to all of them.