The Gadgeteer has an in depth
report from CES 2004. The report has a ton of pictures and one that caught my eye is the BlueDock.
Next to the iBiz area was an exhibit from Synosphere. They were showing a product called the Blue Dock. Designed for Pocket PCs and Palm PDAs, this small docking station allows your PDA to, in effect, become your only PC!
There are a lot of mobile warriors that have been using their PDAs as a laptop replacement. This product takes that idea a huge step forward!
The dock includes 2 USB ports for a keyboard and mouse, 1 SVGA port for a monitor and an Ethernet port. Pop in your PDA, and badaa boom baada bing, you can see and interact with everything on a full-size monitor. I think this a very cool concept, one which I will most happily adopt when PDAs have at least 20GBs of RAM and even faster processors. Being able to carry ALL my email and our entire website in my pocket for easy access would really be a dream come true for me!
Definitely! He really only showed us the spreadsheet application, and the today screen. I would love to see Pocket PC and Palm games on a computer monitor, though, as well as all of the other PDA applications that we can't live without.
This looks really cool. 8) I will have to wait for a review of the product when it hits the shelves. Would you use something like this?