Ultra-portable terminals

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On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 09:53:00PM -0700, Bob Rasmussen may or may not have
proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
> I trust you're not all sweltering excessively.

That trust is -so- misplaced.  :)

> I bought one yesterday, and set about getting acquainted, and especially
> testing Anzio on it. Anzio actually runs fine on it, if your eyes (or
> bifocals) are good enough. There's plenty of pixels - we used to run on
> 640x480! But as I said, they're small. But very crisp.

What about bumping the resolution downwards to the equivalent of 800x600?
Obviously their aspect ratio differs from conventional displays.

> More off-topic, you could use this unit as a camera, a video-conferencing
> station, a music player, a music recorder, a photo viewer, and a video
> viewer. And to play Solitaire.

But does it play World of Warcraft?!  :)  God, the important info always
gets left out...   *chuckle*

> Let me know what you think.

Too many devices built into one.  :)  I'm a geek at heart, but I really
dislike the way they build one device to do everything.  I don't even want
a camera in my phone.  Marginal quality compared to my digital camera (even
my old one), and...I just want a phone to make phone calls, a camera to
take pictures, a handheld game device to play games.  Jack of all trades,
master of none is -not- a good axiom for building a quality product that
does justice to its purported purposes.  As a general observation, I really
dislike this trend.

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