Personally I really like and welcome the idea of a tiny pc I hold in my Pocket (not a brick in me hand).
I really enjoy using my Pocketpc and it provides great functionality for me as I nip about London and occasionally the rest of the country, what with the maps/gps, databases, contact info, e-mail, calender, music, movies and of course games.
But having said that I would also like to be able to send files/document directly to a desktop without using activestink or e-mail or having to convert it the docs back and forth.
This is especially important as I soon intend to go freelance in my field of work, which will involve attending client businesses for a few days a week. Now these businesses are not going to let me stick stuff all over their PC (fear of virus's) and being in the UK we don't have wide spread WIFI or BT access (cost and short sightedness) and I'm not likely to get access to all their TCP/IP addresses (dunno how to find them myself! and based on experiece it takes ages for the in-house IT to sort it out!).
So a device with Windows, a USB port (usb to usb file trasfer... nice) and a HUGE memory works well for me although I do hate the thought of having to use a nasty looking keyboard that my ham sized fingers would be expected to mash out a doc with.
And then after reading up on the spec's of the OQO and 'Flip Start' theirs the issue of battery life 2-6 isan't even a days work (more like 12, lately) and that's not including 'travel entertainment'.
That's without mentioning the health and safety aspects of being hunched over (like quasimodo) the 'Handtop' device for 8-12 hrs tapping away like Fred Astire in a tap dancing frenzy!
So I Guess what I'd really like to see is a memory card (big memory at least 3 gigs) that can fit in my hand with a LLOOOONNNG battery life that can be plugged in to any desktop (probably via USB) to provide access to the wealth of information I use for work, but that also has an interface I can use when not at a desktop to access the same info and keeps me busy when I'm on the move to with entertainment.
Hmmm! maybe not a esktop, 'Handtop' or a PDA but sounds like a usb memory card dongle thingie (with a full windows operating system) to me, that can be plugged into both devices (PC or PDA)? Just gotta sort out those driver installation issues though! and scrap Activestink. __________________ Afterism (n) - A concise, clever statement you don\'t think of until too late.
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