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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > Remember PDAs? They're coming back. In phone form.
 
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Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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SO DEMANDING posted:

THIS THREAD IS NOW ABOUT lovely POINTLESS PORTABLES

i seriously love this garbage so goddamn much. i posted a bunch in the gassed portable computer thread

paul allen funded this turd, which was utterly destroyed by netbooks. first shown in 2003, not released until 2007, and it cost two thousand loving earth dollars.


the oqo, which shaggar mentioned. vaporware for the longest time, they finally released it and i think got maybe 3 revisions out! the first version had this ridiculous "docking cable" shown below


the s-xgen handtop, by some company called seamless. i never heard of this thing until i was googling for pictures of hosed up portables. it's a loving inch thick windows mobile PDA with a flip-out folding keyboard, and according to an old article cost $1400. IT IS A PDA WITH A loving ETHERNET PORT JESUS CHRIST



im still rock hard for the 770/n800/n810, nokias weird linux tablet released during the early days of the iphone
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Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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 still better than most modern android phones tbh

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Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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infernal machines posted:

i owned both the 770 and the n800

in fact, i still have the n800 around somewhere. they were, by the standards of the time, surprisingly usable for browsing the web

i had the n800 and it really was solid at the time, and some hobbiest project ported webkit over a bit later so it kept up for a good stretch

they were clever machines, double layer resistive membranes so they could detect stylus vs touch inputs and show the right keyboard, a full software repo ui so linux anything could be installed and managed easily by average users, and a camera that swiveled so it could take (mediocre) front and back photos and do video calls

the screen was really nice fore the time, too, and by modern standards the form factor isnt too bad if a bit chunky

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