From Akihabara News this morning comes a rather cool dictionary.
Hold on. I’ll start that again…..
From Akihabara News this morning comes a rather cool electronic device.
What its running is not important to me but look at the design. Here’s another pic. There’s more at Akihabara News.
Just like the Sharp Zaurus its a mini-convertible. I really think that if you could push the screen right out to the edges on this style of device you could have a useable 800×480 screen size. Its a wonderful form factor, it has the important customer-comforting keyboard and as its small enough to fit in one hand (500g = one handed. 1000g = two handed is a good rule of, er, thumb.) you don’t need a mouse pointer on the frame. With HSDPA built-in, you could sell it through mobile carriers and it would bridge the top-end of the smartphone market and the UMPC market.
The HTC Universal is also a similar device but again, with 640×480 you’re going to get nowhere with your browsing. Look at all that wasted screen space. HTC must have something new under development. It would be so easy for them.
The Carrypad concept UMPC is based around this sort of form-factor and still hasn’t been realised. I still believe its a one of the sweet spots in the market today. With or without dictionary.
Steve /Chippy.
October 31st, 2006 at 3:13 pm
Truely it is a great design! I think chip makers should consider a down-scale function to let larger screen fit to limited panel size ex. 1024×768 on a 800×480 panel.
And I’ve seen the 3.5 min VIA concept UMPC, uh, maybe it will come ture if the solar power can be attached on the screen(LOL).