Re: OK, so what is your next gotta have tech toy?
 

I'm looking for a sub $1000 x86 device with 5-7" screen, usable keyboard and battery life above 4 hours. Maybe one of the Atom devices.

Re: OK, so what is your next gotta have tech toy?
 

I think my next small device will be either N82 or N96, and the major device will be Sony UX umpc.

Re: OK, so what is your next gotta have tech toy?
 

what you need is your own wimax base station
:p

Re: OK, so what is your next gotta have tech toy?
 

My dream gadget will be the a Nokia n9xx, same as the 810-wimax only with wifi bumped to 802.11n, a proper SDHC card slot, 512M of ram, 4GB of flash, *and* (wait for it, wait for it) in the zaurus clamshell format. with proper accelerated video (arm/omap is fine, just don't cripple it, with cpu-to-video bandwidth problems, Nokia)

oh wait, maybe this is it?
http://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/2008/0...-on-video.html

Re: OK, so what is your next gotta have tech toy?
 

Bleh . . . the problem with clamshells of all types is that they're really terrible to try and use standing up and on the move.

Good news is that they'd have to go way out of their way to cripple it with OMAP3.

Re: OK, so what is your next gotta have tech toy?
 

A Pandora comes closer than anything else I know of.

Re: OK, so what is your next gotta have tech toy?
 

I think what you are describing is called the eee 9 incher for 499$. Coming out end of april. I know that is what I'll be getting to add to my wm6.1 dash/excaliber and delightfull n800 only problem is i don't have any more pockets ¤:(

Re: OK, so what is your next gotta have tech toy?
 

If we're talking dream devices now, mine would just be a 770 or N800[*] running an updated NewtOS (with full multimedia and Internet capabilities, i.e. all the OpenEinstein and Relativity enhancements).

See? I am easily pleased...

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[*] I'd prefer the 770 purely on its design; the N800 OTOH has the dual card slots.

Re: OK, so what is your next gotta have tech toy?
 

zaurus clamshell will actually fold flat, and twist into a tablet.

Re: OK, so what is your next gotta have tech toy?
 

OK, there is something I can agree with on all counts. I have never tried the open Einstein, although I did write to steve jobs once asking if he would release the source code to the newton.
You will be suprised to know he didn't reply.

Re: OK, so what is your next gotta have tech toy?
 

So now you can't use the keyboard at all, and you reduced durability, and increased cost and size? :p Clamshell designs just don't suit me.

Re: OK, so what is your next gotta have tech toy?
 

I don't think he can. For one thing, NewtonOS relied heavily on the Voyager chipset, and apparently the sources for that piece of technology have been lost. What Paul Guyot (and now others) have been trying mostly, is a software reconstruction of that chip.

Also, while the Rosetta (printed) handwriting recognizer was an Apple product, ParaGraph (the cursive recognizer) wasn't and isn't. ParaGraph is now property of PhatWare and lives on as PenOffice for Windows (I believe Rosetta has been unearthed -- to keep the metaphore afloat -- as Inkwell).

And finally, Jobs is Satan, and will never reply to mails about Newton.

On the terminology: OpenEinstein is the virtual NewtonOS itself; Relativity are all the hooks into "normal" hardware peripherals and file systems.

Re: OK, so what is your next gotta have tech toy?
 

Probably an N78 or an N82 with US 3G. My N75 is dying and the battery life is terrible anyway.

Re: OK, so what is your next gotta have tech toy?
 

Hmm... yes, spec-wise, I thought it's pretty close too.. but it's too mainstream, y'know. There's not much pain and suffering associated with the device when you flip that out in public :rolleyes: