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The Real Iphone Killer!!!

There was a webisodey HD on demand suspense / thriller "series" that was a thinly veiled commercial for this thing... it did seem pretty impressive, though.
 
One can fantasize, no?
Sadly, it now appears that the demonstration was little more than a validation board running fresh from the factory, three-day old Moorestown silicon in an Intel lab. Significant, but hardly a working MID prototype. A working Moorestown MID like that pictured above remains the stuff of Intel's graphics department fantasy for the time being.
;)
 
if only they can actually come out like that prototype. It still seems 1 or 2 more year wait? I hope WM7 comes out already at that time.
 
Aside from the fact that it wouldn't fit in my pocket, that looks awesome. Too bad it isn't a reality. You could put a full software keyboard on that (almost real size). :O
 
hotzenplotz said:
One can fantasize, no?
Sadly, it now appears that the demonstration was little more than a validation board running fresh from the factory, three-day old Moorestown silicon in an Intel lab. Significant, but hardly a working MID prototype. A working Moorestown MID like that pictured above remains the stuff of Intel's graphics department fantasy for the time being.
;)
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the fact is that it will eventually deliver to us, right? :) i guess these developers having the idea is a good thing.. keeps the market running with more products. :)

i agree with the rest, it's way too long!!
 
The guy kept saying it was 'revolutionary', a 'massive transformation', containing serious 'innovation'; I think it's just an evolutionary step up from the iPhone, unless I'm missing something. It's the same stuff, just on a bigger screen that goes to the edges, rather than stopping a little short at top and bottom like we're all familiar with now. I'd be surprised if this wasn't the next step, frankly, so what's so special?

I agree with the others too - form factor is too long. If I sat down with that in my pocket, it would probably get damaged unless the pockets were deep, as your hips would bend the device.
 
Granted, but my point is, none of these features on their own are revolutionary, innovative, blah blah. I know the iPhone doesn't have them, but the interface is still much more worth having than the missing features. This Intel jobbie still has drop down menus, so it's not that spectacular. It's just WinMo repackaged for a touch screen. Phones I've had in the past have had worthlessly low res video with crap sound anyway, and most other 3G phones already have video calling which no-one uses because it's invasive, inconvenient (try walking along having a video chat without walking into a lamp post) and is horrendously priced, so dubious value to be had there. I like the shopping thing, but it would take some level of collaboration as each company would use their own proprietary SKU codes and would have to publish them publicly to be used as a reference. The geotagging is already done today and three or four way video conferencing, again, is evolutionary. Data rates and processor speeds in a couple of years time should easily handle it. I'll take these features when they come, but I don't miss what I've had and I don't hanker after what I haven't.

The only thing I really, really miss is MMS, which ironically, people keep telling me is positively stone-age! ;) I'd even take that over cut & paste if I had to make the choice.
 
So wheres the camera for video chat when the screen go's to the edge of the device?

If it was that long it's begging to get a snapped screen.
 
Jelite said:
So wheres the camera for video chat when the screen go's to the edge of the device?

If it was that long it's begging to get a snapped screen.
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yeah, why too long. I think the guys dreaming this unit up should walk around for a week with a metal ruler in the pocket. After a few days of being jammed in the gut or it bending or snapping, they will reconsider their design.
 
I thought that was a *spoof* video for the iPhone; poking fun at its size.

Seriously, that monstrosity isn't a killer it just reminds us that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
 
The real iPhone killer:
 

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