Ultra-portable terminals

[Laura Brody]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 01:18:48 -0400, Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com> wrote:

> 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.  :)

	Ditto.

>> 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.
>> 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.

	Not only does an "all in one" type of device suffer from
the "master of none" syndrome, but most people don't realize
that *when* (not if) that device dies, they lose ALL of the
functionality.

Example: If your camera died, your cell phone and MP3
player would both be just fine. But if your cell phone with
a camera & MP3 player built in bites the dust, you got nuthin'.

-- 
Laura Brody
+------------- Hudson Valley Computer Associates, Inc ----------+
| PO Box 859 120 Sixth Street    http://www.hvcomputer.com      |
| Verplanck, NY 10596-0859       Voice mail: (914) 739-5004     |
+------ PC repair locally, filePro programming globally --------+