I love this idea: you’ve got a PDA-sized device you can carry in your pocket that folds out so you’ve got a full-sized keyboard and a screen large enough such that you can do full-on word processing (among other usual PDA
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functions, but the real benefit they’re pushing here is on-the-go word-processing) from anywhere without having to carry a laptop with you: you’re in Starbucks, or the airport, or wherever, you can’t be bothered to haul around a laptop with you, and you |
want (or desperately need, as the case may be) to get some particular piece of work done, so you just pull out your Dragonfly and you can pound away at 80 WPM due to the full-sized keyboard, and then e-mail it off (I’m presuming this thing has internet connectivity, I can’t see the point in it if it didn’t). So, if you’ve got a report or spreadsheet that the boss just has to have right friggin’ now, the Dragonfly allows you to have the capability to respond immediately without
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being tethered to a laptop you have to carry around all the time. Brilliant concept, but this device is still very much in the development stage, the photos you see here are just renders, they’re not even functional. Their plan is to use a Moorestown CPU, Windows XP, |
and have…wait for it: an external mouse you carry around. Oooo, I don’t think that’ll fly–touchpad, Thinkpad-type stick in the middle of the keyboard, anyone? It’ll do just fine on a device like that, you don’t need a laser-tracking mouse with something like this. tl;dr: awesome idea, but we don’t have the technology to pull this off yet, but we might in a year or two, so wait for it–it might be worth it.
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Samsung Already Tried This (didn’t work)
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