Origami Revealed.

[EvilMole]

A THREE hour battery life makes it useless, and a total failure.

Depends. If that "3 hour" is the same as a laptop's 3 hour (ie not 3 hours at all) then maybe it's too short. If it's three hours of working then it's fine. How many hours on an average day do you spend nowhere near a plug socket?

The Celeron is a complete waste of silicon.

Umm, Celeron M is far from a complete waste of silicon. Celeron M series chips are basically a version of the Core Solo with less cache (512Kb or 1Mb) and a slower bus (400MHz instead of 667MHz). That means they deliver about the same performance as a mid-range Pentium M - not as good as Core Duo or Solo, but still good. I've been running a Tablet PC with a 1GHz Pentium M for quite a while, and the current Celeron M's would easily beat it for performance. You wouldn't want to run heavyweight games on one of them, but it's more than good enough to run XP, Office etc.

 

[cargoplex]

OQO Done Did Dat

Funny how OQO already had a uPC (Ultra Personal Computer) available back in 2004. The company was even cofounded by Jory Bell, former lead developer for Apple's PowerBooks, so it looks pretty sharp too.

http://www.oqo.com

 

[Sabenth]

For what its worth

I know this may sound silly but why not allow the nintendo ds to become one of these things its small its got everthing this umpc or what ever it is that they call it obviously the one thing that it dose lack is a hard drive as such but whats a small addon cart or somthing were the gba carts go.... Oh plus iam sure that Apple will know doubt come from behind and swallow the whole i want a computer in my pocket market ... They did it with the iPod

 

[Jerence]

Funny how OQO already had a uPC (Ultra Personal Computer)

Much closer to what I was thinking Origami would / should be like.


But $2000??!

3 hour battery??!

eh

 

[RedTomato]

Hmm.

I think my mobile phone beats it.

It's about 2 inches by 4 by 0.7 deep.

Has a slideout thumb keyboard, also an onscreen keybord and touch screen, also handwriting recognition.

Has MSN Messenger, and MS Word, and Excel and PowerPoint and Zip and IE Explorer and Terminal, all of which I use regularly (except terminal)

Has a 200MHZ ARM chip, and 64 MB ram, I could add another 128 MB for $15 f i wanted but don't need to.

Has WiFi and bluetooth and GPRS (data services) all of which I use regularly, and normal voice calling (which I don't actually use as anyone who knows me will know. )

Battery life is about 12 hours with everything turned on at max.

I've written articles on the keyboard and read books on the phone and done other PDA stuff. It takes photos and videos too, which I dont see this Orgami device doing (maybe I missed that)

Monthly cost - £9 ($15) for unlimited text messages and about 5MB/month internet browsing through GPRS.

Most of my browsing is through the wifi connection, which is fast and free. GPRS is about 56k, so 5MB goes a long way. I've not yet gone over limit, but if i do, the next level is about 35 MB /month for £15 ($22)

Cost me £70 to buy ($100) and if I loose it, replacement is £50 ($70)

Between my phone (not perfect, but pretty good) and a 12'' laptop or ultralight notebook, I'm not impressed with Origami.

xoxo Tomato

 

[Sabenth]

Hmm.

Between my phone (not perfect, but pretty good) and a 12'' laptop or ultralight notebook, I'm not impressed with Origami.

xoxo Tomato

Dose that thing have a hard drive cant say ive seen it in our local o2 shop though i asuem its contract based

 

[RedTomato]

Dose that thing have a hard drive cant say ive seen it in our local o2 shop though i asuem its contract based

No HD, tho you can plug in a mini-SD card. At the moment, prices seem to be around £20 for 512MB, £35 for 1GB and £55 for 2GB.

True, the Orgami would probably beat it on sheer storage - easy with 10 times the internal volume and price.

Should mention that my low contract price is via a stand-alone data tariff, (i.e. nop voice calls) which is a business tariff they don't like to tell people about in the shops.

I didnt have any problems getting mine tho, and I'm not a business.

A voice call tariff would run you a little more, tho some include data etc.

xoxo T

 

[seashellz]

awwww, its nothing more than an MS Etch-a-Sketch®-with a few more buttons-you turn it over and shake it to clear the screen....

 

[progx]

a good start

i like it. although the current XP rehash is no good, but nonetheless, this looks pretty neat.

maybe a few revs down the road might prove something of buying it.

 

[Mechcozmo]

Scott Adams predicted the future of Microsoft!

 

[LACOSTE]

looks aren't everything... but who would lug around that thing?

I guess the idea of owning an ultra-multi-purpose gizmo is a prized novelty, but samsung's first stick at this origami project thingy lacks lustre.

who would want to lug around this PC brick? I guess it is a descendant of a long line of disfigured computers: looks like a giant nintendo that can surf wirelessly and do a million things a laptop can do. Mobile television blah blah, I just hope apple can stick something in to the pot and come up with an ingenious beautiful and powerful device that would blow UMPC out of the water .

But by the looks of things, apple doesnt really have anything to worry about . Just cruise along and get on with development of something even more innovative and lifechanging than a PC brick that does everything.

 

[fisty]

what an ugly mofo.....

no way in hell i will spend money on that thing....if they give me one for free i just sell it, its just way to ugly