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01-14-2006, 12:53 AM
First thing you will notice about the VZ is the size, followed by the screen, followed by everything being in Japanese. I guess I'll tackle this thing going backwards starting with the translation. Now, even though most things are recognizeable from past clie users, it is just weird as well and dificult to fully use. Using CliePet's Partial English translation is a lifesaver as without it I don't think I could have done anything else. I would say that doing the full translation or possibly 90% of it was my first task and it took a couple days as various files from the NX and TH seem to corrupt the VZ and sent me into reset loops.
I took some files from my TH and NX to make an otherwise full English VZ. The PIM apps, ClieOrganizer, ClieFiles, DataImport, and the installation of additional apps make the translation even more complete than the great work Cliepet did. I took the time to make a folder with all the required apps required for the translation. I would love to distribute it to all VZ owner but I'm not sure what legal grounds are.
A few things still in Japanese are the categories in all the apps, such as memo, todo, etc... A few of the choices in CO are japanese, specifically, the choice to switch the bottom option to stickers, todos, or the pictures, videos, voice, and freenotes option. There are also a few Japanese characters in Hotsync and Prefs. All of these are almost hard to find and are not really noticed as I actually had to look for them. There may be a few more but its pretty much complete and changing the categories is a one time thing that just catches you as I rarely use Todos and just noticed those categories were still in japanese, oops.
As noted in some of my other posts, I was having a problem installing ClieRMC and there is debate as to if it works. Well, I got it to work and it just so happens I'm in a hotel traveling on business with a Zenith TV, with which the ClieRMC does not have a code. It also doesn't have magnavox, it does have all the major brands though. So, I can't test it out which is :mad: frustating after getting it to work.
I hope this helps as I will be going over the screen, use and ergonomics followed by thorough comparison pics with a PSP, LifeDrive, TH, and NX for size estimations. Please let me know any other things I should be going over or any one else might want to know.
I took some files from my TH and NX to make an otherwise full English VZ. The PIM apps, ClieOrganizer, ClieFiles, DataImport, and the installation of additional apps make the translation even more complete than the great work Cliepet did. I took the time to make a folder with all the required apps required for the translation. I would love to distribute it to all VZ owner but I'm not sure what legal grounds are.
A few things still in Japanese are the categories in all the apps, such as memo, todo, etc... A few of the choices in CO are japanese, specifically, the choice to switch the bottom option to stickers, todos, or the pictures, videos, voice, and freenotes option. There are also a few Japanese characters in Hotsync and Prefs. All of these are almost hard to find and are not really noticed as I actually had to look for them. There may be a few more but its pretty much complete and changing the categories is a one time thing that just catches you as I rarely use Todos and just noticed those categories were still in japanese, oops.
As noted in some of my other posts, I was having a problem installing ClieRMC and there is debate as to if it works. Well, I got it to work and it just so happens I'm in a hotel traveling on business with a Zenith TV, with which the ClieRMC does not have a code. It also doesn't have magnavox, it does have all the major brands though. So, I can't test it out which is :mad: frustating after getting it to work.
I hope this helps as I will be going over the screen, use and ergonomics followed by thorough comparison pics with a PSP, LifeDrive, TH, and NX for size estimations. Please let me know any other things I should be going over or any one else might want to know.