Have people seen this company called Modu?
they have an interesting take on all this:
http://modumobile.com/
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Try checking out this:
http://allcurrenthotnews.com/?p=382
Twelve South has recently announced the BookArc, which is a metal
stand designed to hold any Apple MacBook... The stand is designed to
free up desk space by allowing the MacBook to operate in a vertical
position...
So it is only the scree
Gregor: "Looks like Google is trying to sort that problem by being
device independent."
I would consider Google voice and skype as the first wedge between
the carriers and hardware. The only reason a particular phone might
be 'associated' with a single carrier is to leverage as much money
from yo
Chris Rider: "There is an interesting interaction problem here. If I
carry different devices depending on what I'm doing on a given day,
how do easily I tell the carrier which device I want to receive calls
on?"
I think you've pretty much hit the nail on the head.
A brief study in failed product
wow, I never knew IBM had something like that already... Am happy I
was able to get my brain working that far :)
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It sounds like you are describing IBM's Metapad:
http://www-03.ibm.com/technology/designconsulting/port_metapad.html
Best,
Jack
On Aug 17, 2009, at 6:03 PM, Shivan Kannan wrote:
Seeing it from another angle, rather making it a removable part from
a net-book, how if it were a pluggable to a net
I thought about this similar to what Dave Malouf had mentioned at
first - the phone being a removable part of the net-book.
Seeing it from another angle, rather making it a removable part from
a net-book, how if it were a pluggable to a net-book or any other
porting station (not sticking only to a
I foresee less of an explicit hardware convergence, and more
interoperability. I.e. the tablet/netbook should seamlessly leverage
my phone for data access via bluetooth...
"Seamless" being the operative term in that concept.
There is an interesting interaction problem here. If I carry
different d
Generally, MIDs are souped-up smartphones, while netbooks are pared-down
laptops. MIDs run smartphone platforms and have slightly more powerful
processors than most mobile devices, while Netbooks run traditional desktop
OSs and include Atom, which leads to lower battery life but yields a bit
more p
What's teh difference btw an MID and a Netbook and a Smartbook
besides who is controlling the marketing.
maybe you can say an MID is a slate vs. a netbook is a clamshell? But
I would put it at mobile chip Intel Atom or ARM, with sub 10" screen,
low (usually flash storage), and good RAM.
I persona
On Aug 17, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Dave Malouf wrote:
Take a razor sized
iPhone that can slip into a "netbook" sized form-factor keyboard &
screen ( ports, mic & camera) and damn! you've got quite the
machine.
This is actually what I've imagined the rumored Apple iTablet thingy
to be. I probably
Why netbooks and not MIDs?
On Aug 17, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Dave Malouf wrote:
What if your phone was a removable part of your netbook. Ala the
"Folio" by Palm. I think their implementation and specs were off,
but I think the idea has huge possibilities. Take a razor sized
iPhone that can slip int
What if your phone was a removable part of your netbook. Ala the
"Folio" by Palm. I think their implementation and specs were off,
but I think the idea has huge possibilities. Take a razor sized
iPhone that can slip into a "netbook" sized form-factor keyboard &
screen ( ports, mic & camera) and da
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