I still think it's a great idea. No, it's not ultraportable like a PDA or the Archos PMA400, but a larger screen will really be more functional. Unfortunately will have to change drastically before devices like this are truly useful. ...word is bondage...
its more like a archos av700 which i wanted to buy anyway this year but those origami units sound much nicer but also more expensive archos av700 is a portable mediaplayer with a 7" lcd
Ooh, I didn't know the AV700 had such a big screen. I hadn't really looked into it since I'm not so interested in their AV line, but I guess it just shows how Archos is first once again. They've done more things in the portable arena first (and sometimes best) than any other company out there. The AV700 is just a media player, though, not really a computer (until it gets hacked, that is). The PMA400 is really more like a computer; it has a touchscreen, built in wi-fi, USB host port and it runs Linux so it has non-media related apps like Opera and such as well as having all the functions of a personal media player/recorder. The only thing unfortunate about it is it's relatively small 3.5" 320x240 screen. Archos should combine the AV700 with the PMA400 and then they can go from outdoing Apple, but getting trounced in the market against them, to outdoing Microsoft, but getting trounced in the market against them. Dare to dream, Archos! Well, I suppose you could leave it at home if you didn't need it. I do carry my laptop with me an awful lot, so something like this would be better than that at least. ...word is bondage...
when do you not need technology.. I could sit on the throne and surf the porn sites for the lesbian anal porn.
If it has a decent batter where I can watch videos for 7+ hours, I'll buy one. If not, it will just be another small, useless device.
Yeah, what the hell. Was that remotely nessecary? This raises a really good point. Something like Origami, if marketed and priced right, would fit a perfect niche in portable computing devices. For example, I hate laptops. I love the concept of laptop, a computer you can take anywhere with you, but I hate the physical reality of laptops. They're bulky and heavy, even the smaller ones--throw it in a bookbag with a few textbooks and you'll begin wishing your shoulders would just fall off and be done with it. They're expensive, and comparatively fragile as well. The opposite end of the spectrum is PDAs. Palm and PocketPC devices are nice if you don't mind a watered-down computing experience. I love my Palm IIIc because it's a device from an age when PDAs were designed to work in conjunction with a full-size computer, not replace it. I hate the new Palm OS models and nearly every iteration of PocketPC because they are trying to be too much like a small computer and failing miserably due to the limitations of their design and hardware. There's only so much you can do with pen-based input on such a tiny screen, and the tiny keyboards built into some models or available as accessories are laughably difficult to use with the same competency as a normal keyboard. Origami, however, has the potential to nicely fill the niche between laptop and PDA. I've been interested in tablet PCs for a while for the same reason--it's a device with the portability and ease of access that a PDA has, but it contains the functionality needed and expected from a PC. If Microsoft gets the battery life issues worked out, hits a good price (the $500 to 650 range would rock) and makes the thing reasonably sturdy, I think they'll have a good thing on their hands. I'd certainly look into getting one.
when you are sitting in a plane for countless hours then theres a point for a pmp or in a train cause my laptop is a huge magine more powermonster then a portable computer those origami things would also work perfectly as picture container when you are photographing out in the wild and just hang your digicam via usbhost to it and move the images over
