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   Anonymous Coward, Apr 16th, 2002 @ 1:13pm

   
   

   Give me one with a 10" screen for 1000 and ill buy one.

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   heh...

   

   mhh5, Apr 16th, 2002 @ 3:18pm

   
   

   give me one with a built-in projector, and I'll get one....

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   stole my idea

   

   uberdingo, Apr 17th, 2002 @ 7:10am

   
   

   this has been my dream idea for a while, but it needs more work. A PDA form factor, with connectivity options. The next hurdle is the hardest, once you have the devices, you need to have a lot of options available for input and output. If airports, planes, and hotels had projectors or lcds you could use, the device would really start to have value. For input, maybe if voice recognition gets better, or an attachable blackberry style keyboard like they have for the palms now. The best part is that if bluetooth works as advertised you don't need a physical connection for possible input devices.
   The other big need for something like these is good encryption - if a lot of people are carrying their computers around and using them on public devices, they better have some good security.

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   Other Full-powered Handhelds

   

   Marc, Apr 17th, 2002 @ 9:01am

   
   

   Using the same operating system on a device in my pocket as on my desktop makes a lot of sense. Networking and syncronization would be greatly simplified (although not by any means perfect). Also think of all the proprietary programs that you don't have to port to Pocket PC or PalmOS. As for the programs you have already paid for, why not use an emulator written for the OS you just gave up you could run on your new full-powered windows or linux handheld.
   Check out a few others:
   http://pages.sbcglobal.net/tiqit83/index.html
   another full-powered handheld
   http://www.khyber.com/index.php has a very interesting product that is essentially a smart phone with an attachable clamshell screen/keyboard accessory.
   Xybernaut, the wearable computer company owns several patents on an idea that should allow you to swap processors, storage, inputs and outputs in block-like modules. http://www.xybernaut.com/newxybernaut/company/intellect/patents.htm

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   Re: Other Full-powered Handhelds

   

   Mike (profile), Apr 17th, 2002 @ 9:54am

   
   

   Yeah, I think that all of these full powered handhelds are cool... but the really cool thing about the OQO isn't just that it's a full powered handheld, but the various "docking" setups that make the computer the "right size for the right occasion".

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   IBM project

   

   Mark D., Apr 17th, 2002 @ 10:57am

   
   

   The OQO looks like this project from IBM.

   MetaFilter had a thread on this a while back too.

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   Re: IBM project

   

   Mark D., Apr 17th, 2002 @ 11:00am

   
   

   Here's the article I was looking for.

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   sallam

   

   sahil khan afridi, Oct 10th, 2006 @ 4:37pm

   
   

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