BluOnyx Portable Media Server

[WillS]

This is nice (http://www.bluonyx.com/bluonyx.cfm)

Forget about scrabbling around for 2/4GB cards, just carry one of these 40GB servers around and wifi to it from your N770 (or N800 if you're lucky!).

I've been waiting for something like this to appear for a while, lets hope they get bigger drives soon, at a decent price point.

WillS

[jpj]

Currently vaporware - Agere imagines their (unnamed) marketing partners releasing actual products in Summer 2007. Don't hold your breath, a lot can happen (or not happen) in 6 months...

[Milhouse]

http://thoughtfix.blogspot.com/2007/01/ageres-bluonyx-box-of-wonder.html

[thoughtfix]

Thanks for linking to my article on this one.
Yeah - it's not vaporware. I held a functional one in my hands. They're tweaking the OS and features now, but it does indeed work.

[bobpaul]

Call me a bit more skeptical Dan, but I've always considered it vaporware until a product is actually released.

This product was announced a long time ago. I don't care if they have working prototypes. Tweaking the OS, etc could be an euphemism for "We don't have enough capital to secure a manufacturing partner."

Lots of things have had prototypes but were never actually delivered. I'm not holding my breath.

[jpj]

Thanks for linking to my article on this one.
Yeah - it's not vaporware. I held a functional one in my hands. They're tweaking the OS and features now, but it does indeed work.

Please excuse my imprecision. Vaporware is probably the wrong term, but if I understand the situation, the specific device you held in your hands will never be a commercial product, sold by Agere or anyone else in its current form.

It's a technology demonstration, analogous to the Tablet PC prototypes Microsoft used to build (or have built) and show at developer conferences, or Intel's concept PCs. Probably closer to the former, since a lot of the internals will presumably be licensed to the eventual manufacturers. Expect them, in turn, to vary the form factor, feature set, etc. to differentiate their versions from each other.

[thoughtfix]

Perhaps. I didn't expect a consumer device to come out of Agere, but I have to admit that the design and functionality are well organized. There may be some partnerships that have to come out of establishing retail channels and support. Support is a big one.

Remember the Pilots? Palm Computing developed them (hardware and software) and even wrote desktop software and manuals. They then ran out of money (or at least did not have enough to produce, deploy, and support the devices) so US Robotics swept in, bought them (the company, not the devices,) and put them in stores.

[zorg]

So, is this continuing to not be vaporware, or what?