DISQUS

nomadicalloy · 2 years ago

patents are getting silly, its all about money
Tekjock · 2 years ago

WOW, you can connect a monitor to it ... WOW-zers. It looks like a DVI connection on the bottom.
Dave · 2 years ago

Its all about smart phones now, they are the same size as PDAs basically are PDAs with a built in cell phone without the wasted time of removing a device from it. I guess for the removable cell phone there must be two separate batteries.
Dave · 2 years ago

I don't think that is DVI connection, theres no "crosshair" interface on the left/right side. It looks like a basic drawing of some proprietary connection port that coincidentally looks like a DVI connection, but if it were a DVI it would be useless.
Alex · 2 years ago

Why cant you just have a mobile phone with PDA features? :P
Matt H. · 2 years ago

No... I think it's a NuBus connector on the bottom, so you can plug it into your old Mac II.

But seriously, this reminds me a little of the VisorPhone which was a springboard module for the Handspring Visor. If you didn't want to lug that around, there was a third party that made a very simple interface (12 keys + send / hangup.) The benefit was that the phone wasn't so honkin' huge.

I think that's what these guys are going after... you have a regular small / stylish phone for typical use. When you want to do web browsing or email checking, you plug it in. Sort of like what we were supposed to be able to do with Bluetooth.