[dundee] UMPC's

[Andrew Clayton]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:30:33 +0000, Rick wrote:

> On 20/01/2008, Simon Wells <swells at computing.dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Well I have been keeping an eye on these guys with their extensible
> > platform:
> > http://www.buglabs.net/
> 
> That's pretty awesome, and exactly the kind of innovation I like to
> see.
> 
> > and of course have been drooling over these:
> > http://europe.nokia.com/A4568578:
> 
> I'm not entirely sure if I understand the use cases for these MID
> devices.  Don't get me wrong I think they're pretty neat, but for me
> they seem too small to be useful.  They're too big to be a phone, yet

I've got an N800 (along with about 4 other people in the office) and
it's superb.

> too small to comfortably type on.  I'd imagine that the UMPC (e.g. the

Web browsing, map reading etc doesn't require much typing.


Andrew