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– “Sunlight Computing”, with the help of Pxel Qi, Mirasol, or Liquavista screens. I can almost bet that somewhere in the middle of 2011, it will be a blast watching Avatar 3D 1080p on a Liquavista 3D screen of a 2.35:1 tablet on some Florida or California beach;

– Ultra-low power consumption of say, Tegra2-Android tablet demands that say, the back panel of such a tablet should be made into a combined solar and WiFi-charger panel. It may contain spare/bigger battery and, in a shell-like opening design, a “hardware” keyboard. Such a tablet may not need charging from the mains at all one day,

– Up to 12 Mpixel still camera, HD Web camera, VoIP/smartphone capabilities can present new possibilities for field workers/tourists/hikers etc., and their experiences in social networking,

– I personally would love to see developed sketching/painting capabilities in such tablets emulating overpriced Wacom Cintiq functionality,

– With the advent of Chrome OS and cloud computing we might see even more capabilities and functions open for such tablets, but even before that, one way of “upgrading” your cheap ($100….$150) tablet might be buying another such tablet and using both in a folder-like enclosure, connected/networked. The kitchen/house surveillance/HTPC/car might need more of such devices, and such popularity can bring the price further down,

– They talk about OLPC program for what, nine years now? Time to dump overpriced Atom/Celeron?VIA platforms and replace them with Tegra-2 Android/Ubuntu tablet for $95 or even less, such “children” computers can be sold in tens of millions.

Apple content and carrier contracts for iPad will certainly starve the competition tablets. Many good prototypes will be doomed, or swiped out into niche markets. However, I believe that when any potential tablet manufacturer aspires to produce a tablet capable of all “FIE” by Chippy, plus many, or better all, of my functionality additions, such tablets would have too many critical advantages over inferior, crippled iPad to be pushed aside, or stomped out by ridiculous patent litigations.

http://bit.ly/dCNOH0 great article on "Full Internet Experience" by @chippy

With respect to the ‘death of the umpc’: i think that some things are so complex that you need to (re)invent them several times before they are right. (Remember that before the UMPC we had the PDA?) The umpc was based on the idea: we really like computers, so what if we took the full power our desktop and try to shrink it down into a portable device….? It was also a reaction on the PDA, I think, because PDA’s were so limited, that people started longing for a desktop like experience that you can take everywhere.

That idea was very appealing, because we all want to be able to do everything we did before, and mobile this time! But it was not right. You cannot just shrink the device: the hardware gets completely different properties. And just as you can’t simply shrink the hardware you can’t expect that desktop software paradigm’s work well on mobile devices. Take for instance, a traditional desktop app that really really shines: photoshop. The GUI consists of a very complex menu structure, very many panels. No way that this is ever going to look nice if you scale it to 7 inches or even smaller. It is so complex that it screams for a huge monitor to be displayed on, and shrinking the pixels (making the information denser) just won’t do the job to make it mobile. EVER. Even if you had huge processing power and unlimited battery life. A true mobile experience just can’t be done with this software.

The new software paradigm seems to be: take very few UI elements, make them big enough for a human finger and present them on a touch screen. If you want to display more complex information than fits on the screen: use clever animatated transitions to give a sense of context and hide the fact that a mobile device is never large enough to show everything at once.

This doesn’t mean that umpc’s don’t live on – because the touch devices of today are not possible without the experience that was created by making these devices. But now, there’s just a new iteration. We’ll see if this will be enough to create truely mobile devices.

the only web app I’ve seen that handles the iPhone’s quirky text area behavior in the right way, is gmail.

If my Archos 5 went fully mobile — 3g and phone services (in my areas of US, I need Verizon) — and had an attachable keyboard (say, Touch Pro 2 class), I’d have a lot less need to fire up my trusty p1610.

Dell Mini 5 moving that way, but I so love a physical keyboard…

My LG cell phone supports j2me applications, so I have Opera Mini 4/5 beta2, jimm, ebuddy, j2memap (google maps, can connect gps over bt), MidpSSH e.g..
If I use the mobile youtube page in Opera mini I can stream videos through the inbuilt player perfectly.
Multitethering like a WLAN AP (hostapd) would be nice but maybe it´s a huge task for a 100 Euro phone. At least bluetooth DUN profile and USB modem (/dev/ttyACM0) work.

Phones like the Freerunner would keep my privacy (I don´t use more than google search or googleearth and especially I don´t use clouds!). The builtin gps e.g. can be used to load applications just before I reach the desk at work or come home.

I wish my DigiCam would have GPS to enter it into the exif data.

My Everun Note could have longer battery life or multitouch but I love it running Kubuntu 9.10.

My desktop is still a nice thing to have to write letters, for gaming, faster optical drives, vdr (wastes some power).

Is there anything in computing I could do better without paying for every standard feature I´d expect (buy a very dumb phone and pay for everything else) or sacrificing privacy?

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Ive upgraded the mobile version of the site. Its an automated 3rd party feature. Maybe the error has been fixed now?