Jack: "Dang! I was going to slam you down with a reference to the Panasonic Toughbook. ;-)
Best, Jack " Just goes to show how out of touch I am, pun intended (o; As a general aside, I do want to get out my broken record and talk about battery. Its such a boring topic I feel a few of us would prefer to overlook its importance in the overall experience of these types of products. Back when the iPhone came out I was eventually told to stick a AA in it when I mentioned power usage one too many times. Now that people have been using these next gen smart devices for a while, guess what the biggest pain point is http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/08/14/iphone-vs-pre-satisfaction-bakeoff/ You can have the coolest UI & ID but if the device doesnt meet the everyday day after day usage needs a significant part of the UX is failing. Thats not to say we shouldnt build these things, just bear in mind that each swipe, each animation, every little cool widget uses electrons. As an electronics engineer by training I look at the Courier demo and cringe at the juice needed to drive all that coolness. I also feel that once someone creates the next-gen battery we will have a k-t event in industrial and OS/UI design (through cpu horsepower). That, to me, is when the cool shit will really start happening. regards /pauric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=45951 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
