Mon January 10 2005
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09:50 AM by Bob Russell in Miscellaneous | Lounge
Technology is amazing, but good 'ole paper is pretty amazing too! [Edit: See also this article from the USC Faculty Forum Introducing the new Bio-Optic Organized Knowledge device; trade-name: "BOOK" ] |
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Sun January 09 2005
Sat January 08 2005
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10:45 AM by Bob Russell in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
The latest news about portable display technology comes from the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology in Germany, where they have developed a tiny projector capable of 320 by 240 resolution. It uses a tiny micromirror with springs to draw the picture pixel by pixel. Very fast, of course. The technology will be limited to monochrome display until color lasers become cheap. See also a previous example of this kind of technology from a US lab... Video Projection with PDAs! (via www.gizmo.com.au) |
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10:24 AM by Bob Russell in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
The RaySat SpeedRay 3000 satellite antenna will be available second half of 2005 for a mere $3500 plus installation and internet service costs. And people think it's dangerous to use a cell phone while driving. Wait till they start reading ebooks while driving! (via Gizmodo, which is a very nice site similar to www.engadget.com) |
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08:16 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
You haven't heard of the P50 yet? The P50 is a quad-band GSM keyboarded smartphone, with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and cellular networking, and a 1.3-megapixel camera. It packs an Intel Bulverde PXA272 processor and am SDIO expansion slot, too. It's a bit longer than the Treo, although the keyboard is very similar to the Treo 600's, with similar domed keys. |
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07:49 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Portable Audio/Video
The complete specs: Capacity: 30GB |
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07:32 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
Toshiba is pitching the part at "next-generation mobile digital devices", but it's a good bet phone makers are going to take a keen interest in the drive, particularly given the clear convergence between handsets, PDAs and, increasingly, digital media players. Toshiba's hard drives may enable handset makers to incorporate large storage capacities more cost-effectively than they can with Flash-based memory cards, and potentially reach higher capacities more quickly. I was never a big fan of flash devices, so I hope that PPC vendors will incorporate these harddisk drives soon! |
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Fri January 07 2005
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09:52 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
It contains fixes making synchronization more trouble free and includes all the significant improvements brought to you in ActiveSync 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7.1. |
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