PowerPod
Dream...
The reincarnation of the Newton with all the wireless connections and capabilities for the 21 century.
Sounds like a PowerPod to me.
The reincarnation of the Newton with all the wireless connections and capabilities for the 21 century.
- scroll wheel and small screen on top
- flip open (like DS) for colorWidescreen and touchscreen, for apps
- Mail, iCal, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie playback, Apple Works X
- Games (DS licenced from Nintendo)
- iChat A/V camera built in
- Safari RSS
- 3G phone with BT headset
- HD and removable Memorycard for special apps
- Mobile Podcast recording device
- instant sync with paired devices
Sounds like a PowerPod to me.
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Originally posted by TuberMagPico
Dream...
The reincarnation of the Newton with all the wireless connections and capabilities for the 21 century.
scroll wheel and small screen on top
flip open (like DS) for colorWidescreen and touchscreen, for apps
Mail, iCal, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie playback, Apple Works X
Games (DS licenced from Nintendo)
iChat A/V camera built in
Safari RSS
3G phone with BT headset
HD and removable Memorycard for special apps
Mobile Podcast recording device
instant sync with paired devices
introduced at the 21st anniversary of the Mac
Sounds like a PowerPod to me.
... with a 30 minutes battery life, starting at $2999.
More seriously, IMHO any attept to build an all-in-one PDA that'd be able to replace a laptop computer will be vain until the input of the PDA becomes as efficient as a keyboard (i.e. 99~100% hit hand-writing recognition). Until then, that'd only be gadgets for super-geeks, and Apple has stopped building this kind of products...
Apple isn't the mystery we think it is. Stake out steve and his minions and you'll see what's next on the horizon. You can be sure they try the shit out, and most of it never makes it too market. Since there's no future for PDAs, I can't see Apple putting one out. But an all-in-one device; it's just a matter of time. I just wish it'd come sooner than later, as I can't afford to keep buying these devices that don't meet my needs.
I still use my Newton. Sure, it's far from perfect... but it's as close as anyone's come so far.
I agree also on a 3g card option in the machine with a BT phone receiver option so you can talk using a normal looking phone rather than looking like a dork with a slab of computer attached to your ear. Of course, the card can be transferred into the phone receiver and used as a normal phone when u want to leave your powerpod at home. just an option though as most would just use their main phone with it using BT.
To me all the pieces have been coming together. Software wise all is there now except:
a) appleworks for msoft office compatibility
b) sync
The latter is now coming in Tiger with full sync for mail and all the other iapps. As for appleworks, its expected and even textedit can do tables in tiger. The other stuff really is there now from addresses to rss to photos and music.
Hardwear wise, 3g, wifi etc should be enough. it should b
e easier to dock onto a monitor keyboard set up and also sync with your main computer for mail etc using airport.
But the real problem is what is the target? For me it feeds an audience of people who want a computer for that 2/3 day trip and prefer not to lug a powerbook. Also for daily use. And indeed for all us ipod users who would pay an extra 1000 bucks for computer functionality too.
Oh and also there is no reason to me why this wouldn't be just like the iPod and become windows compatible within a year. Why not? Making OSX the standard for handhelds makes great sense. And all the software links are there with msexchange now working across the key PIM apps in Tiger and even photo storage made possible as seen in ipod photo. And for sure appleworks will be the same.
Battery life: I think this and the software stuff is the reason apple has been waiting. I expect we wont see this until the end of 2005 when battery life is sufficient for 10-12 hours use i.e. a whole day.
Finally I agree with you that this will be introduced as the 21 century mac. I remember an interview of Jobs from 97 that talked of extracting what can be had from current products while working for 5 or more years on the next big thing. To me this is the next big thing. A little box, a monitor, amouse and u have a complete desktop/mobile solution.
In other words THIS is to our generation what the Mac was to those in the 80s. It would transform computer use from a desktop computer into a complete mobile device.
Anyway, thanks Tubermagpico, made me excited again at the prospect!
Originally posted by TuberMagPico
Dream...
The reincarnation of the Newton with all the wireless connections and capabilities for the 21 century.
scroll wheel and small screen on top
flip open (like DS) for colorWidescreen and touchscreen, for apps
Mail, iCal, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie playback, Apple Works X
Games (DS licenced from Nintendo)
iChat A/V camera built in
Safari RSS
3G phone with BT headset
HD and removable Memorycard for special apps
Mobile Podcast recording device
instant sync with paired devices
introduced at the 21st anniversary of the Mac
Sounds like a PowerPod to me.
If something big doesn't come out, like a SuperNewton or an ApplePhone or something, then we can all be pretty sure that they extracted more than a tumor from him in August.
--B
iPod is not a distraction. Music distribution is finally changing, it could still go anywhere, and there's a LOT of MONEY to be made in predicting the final destination and shaping its direction.
Basically, right now, iPod/iTunes could be taking up ALL his corporate energies and they wouldn't be mis-spent in the least.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/...itafuel_1.html
Originally posted by Matsu
... iPod is not a distraction. Music distribution is finally changing, it could still go anywhere, and there's a LOT of MONEY to be made in predicting the final destination and shaping its direction....
This is a very weird thread. I was going to say, the iPod and the Newton have little or nothing to do with each other -- why, the original post makes no mention of any PDA features! As for iCal, fooey! The Newton itself is far better as a calendar program and organizer than a Mac running iCal and Address Book.
But Matsu's post is very true also. Music distribution is changing, and thus far the iPod has been the engine of the change: for once we are no longer talking about a physical medium (45, LP, 8-track, cassette, CD - how many times have you bought the same music?) but buying a music recording as an entity per se. And music is only the beginning. We will be talking about books, movies, photos, even software. A new model for distribution is developing.
It will probably not be long before iPod users will be able to purchase music from any number of music stores... or from musicians themselves, directly.
Originally posted by The One to Rescue
... with a 30 minutes battery life, starting at $2999.
More seriously, IMHO any attept to build an all-in-one PDA that'd be able to replace a laptop computer will be vain until the input of the PDA becomes as efficient as a keyboard (i.e. 99~100% hit hand-writing recognition). Until then, that'd only be gadgets for super-geeks, and Apple has stopped building this kind of products...
I have a palm zaire, I couldn't fit it in my pockets.
Too thick, too many features, too impossible to use 1 handed (while driving, you perverts!).
I think it actually has more volume than my 40GB ipod...
Back to the powerPod...
I'm not sure the market really exists for this yet, but a compromise of an iPod/cell phone would probably appeal to most. They wouldn't even have to add any buttons, most of the numbers people call are in the memory (which would be isynced from the comp), and when they do have to 'dial' a number, you can use it like a rotary phone. Someone did a nice mock-up a year ago or so.
voice recognition isn't even very popular on desktop machines that have the processing power to do it fairly well. for the types of data that you put into pda's i suspect voice reco is really bad. people's names and phone numbers are easier to type in via thumbboard than try over and over to get voice recognition to read correctly.