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...to be able to take pics like this.... http://instagram.com/p/fgrSxDP...

You mean about as practical in use as this swiss army knife

I give you the Samsung SGR-A1

http://www.mobilemag.com/wp-co...

From the comments on the main article, I read this link [1].

Most people who transform their netbooks into Hackintoshes typically do so to gain access to Mac OS X-specific applications and functionality. As it turns out, there is a rather substantial secondary advantage as well.

This isn’t at all confirmed or verified, but it seems that loading up an otherwise Windows-equipped netbook with Mac OS X can boost the battery life on the little computer by up to 33%.

The kicker? This was from 2009, referencing 10.5.7, a four-year old OSX vs. Windows 7. I'd be interested to see if a recent netbook hackintosh with Mavericks vs. WIndows 8.1 would show... likely an even wider divergence given the findings in this /. post.

[1] http://www.mobilemag.com/2009/05/14/hackintosh-netbooks-experience-33-battery-life-boost/

On the flip side, try running a bare-metal Hackintosh. The power management is abysmal, because Apple doesn't make drivers for anything except their own machines. Windows will do much better on such a platform.

Try again. One of the commenters to TFA provided a link: Where Apple's "poor drivers" for Windows resulted in a 40% differential between OS X and Windows on Apple's own hardware, a hackintosh was only 33% better in OS X.

http://www.gizmag.com/apple-iphone-micro-usb-adapter/20094/ and http://www.mobilemag.com/2012/05/30/iphone-5-might-feature-micro-usb-as-a-standard/ to answer your question.

maybe MIPS in the form of the Chinese-derivative Loongson?

That's already happening, and they're selling like hotcakes. http://www.mobilemag.com/2012/01/12/79-ainol-novo-7-paladin-tablet-does-ice-cream-sandwich/

The problem for Intel is the price of these SoCs:

• $5 TI ARM Cortex A8, 500mhz,
• $7 Ingenic jz4770 1ghz MIPS with a Vivante GC600 3D GPU
• $7 Allwinner A10, 1.5ghz ARM Cortex A8 with a MALI400 GPU
• $75 Intel Atom Z670 Oak Trail 1.50GHz GMA 600 GPU

http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/

They may not be as capable as the Atom, but they're good enough to make very usable tablets at 1/10th the price.

Apple sells most of it's phones via telco's. Which means they ship through the same channels as HTC, Samsung and everyone else. In Australia Apple have to ship through Brightstor to sell on most Telco's as Telstra and Vodafone have exclusivity agreements with Brightstor (not sure about Optus but it would not surprise me). The situation is quite similar in Europe. So most of apple's "sales" figures are shipped figures like all other manufacturers.

How are you sure of that? Unlike Samsung and HTC, I believe Apple has these things called retail stores as well as an online store. I know that whenever you want something Apple that is in short supply your chance of getting at an Apple store is much higher than another location. Second, even if it was "shipped" instead of "sold", when something is in short supply like most new Apple launches, shipped = sold. I don't know about you but I can't remember the last time people lined up for a Samsung Galaxy phone unless Samsung bribes them.

Clearly some of the usual business-oriented players are moving in this direction (see RIM, Cisco); but Apple has shown that the big money is in entertainment devices. It's actually kind of funny how this works. Microsoft and RIM were dominating the suit-wearing, jet-setting crowd, but then Steve Jobs waltzes in and sells high end smartphones and iPod Touch's to McDonalds workers and teenagers (many of whom can't really afford them), dwarfs MSFT's profits, and creates huge new markets out of thin air.

... but getting back on subject, I agree, that sounds like a really useful gadget that I would like myself. :^)

Microsoft will not have a closed app store model for winmo7 (although they will have their own app store). You can get an SDK and emulator right now - for free - and make XNA/Silverlight apps that can be downloaded to a winmo7 phone.

Oh really?

Like Apple and Google, Microsoft has also thrown their hat into the ring and launched an application store called Windows Phone Marketplace. The marketplace won't be empty at launch because Microsoft has a list of impressive development partners such as EA, Foursquare, Namco and Sling to name just a few. But it will indeed be a closed system, similar to Apple's iTunes App store, being the only vehicle where the end-user can download software to their smartphone.

Am I sure? Pretty sure.

Though there's no way for end users to purchase and install apps outside of the Marketplace, Microsoft is naturally working on a solution for trialling apps on a limited number of devices; if we had to guess, it'll be something akin to Apple's ad hoc installation mode, but Charlie Kindel has said that it won't be available in the first release of the platform. For now, the only way to do it is to unlock devices one at a time through the developer portal, and Microsoft isn't talking about how many devices you'll be able to unlock on an account right now.

The iPhone is totally open as well if you count the ability to develop whatever you like and deploy it - it just costs a little more, but once you have paid you can put anything on the phone.

If you want to be an good Apple fan you should try not to spout nonsense - your ignorance makes Steve look bad.

The thing that really amuses me about the whole Windows vs. Mac thing, is how often the Mac people end up knowing so much more about both platforms than the people who only really know Windows. And so the trend continues it would seem.

If you have other details illustrating the degree of openness for Windows Mobile Series 7 that you claim, by all means share them with the group.

iPods sold badly.

Uh, you might have a case with the original iPhone but you certainly do not have a case with iPods. They surpassed Sony's MP3 player in 2005 and there's no shortage of information saying they're very popular in Japan.

Get over it. Jeez, it's like a religion with you guys.

You have to own all models of the iPhone in order to be eligible to be completely clear so that your OT (operating telephone) levels are uninhibited. Are you a suppressive person? Oh no, I've been in contact with you! Great Woz! Now Jobs won't let me get to the last OT level no matter how much I spend on his products!

Get a GPS system that also uses the European system. Europe put up their own satellite GPS system specifically because the US threatened to 'pull the plug' at various times. The EU uses GPS for navigation (ships, planes, rail, trucks, etc.). They wanted something that they could rely on, of their own. The US was quite sour when they announced the project, and was even more sour when deployment started here. Not being the only game in town means the monopoly is broken. Suddenly the US isn't the windshield, and the EU isn't the bug. Suddenly, things just keep working. Suddenly hasty American action only harms American citizens the most. A third system would help more. Maybe Chinese. You would get at least minimal service at all times.

... and went back to 2003! Twice!

That's right. Apparently it also looks like a sports car and serves as a remote control. Pretty sweet.

Those pictures are rather sketchy, though.

You want a tech scam? Have it: Just type Car runs on water in Google; Sit back and enjoy! http://www.runningcaronwater.com/?gclid=COnhtJPKqZQCFRZZiAod_mOtzw http://www.runcarbywater.com/ http://www.youralternativefuelsite.com/?gclid=CLyItLbKqZQCFQwxiQodyUlR0A http://www.runcaronwaterkit.com/?kk=142 http://hybridfuelreview.info/?id=B227023 http://savemorefuel.info/?t202id=9163299&t202kw=car%20runs%20on%20water http://www.waterfuelx.com/?hop=tracassoc&gclid=CJne49_KqZQCFQL8iAodz2TG0Q http://www.trustmymechanic.com/run-your-car-on-water.html?gclid=CNjKkujKqZQCFSBciAodV1U90A http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/354/C8115/ http://www.squidoo.com/carrunsonwater http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5EMoLMzB-Y http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/car-runs-on-water-inventor-to-be-kidnapped-by-exxon-177716.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water-fuelled_car http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=84561 http://www.easywatercar.com/2books.htm

No point retraining the support people on Vista when I'm sure all the officials and athletes are still using XP.

No one cares about wasting user time, this is all about marketing and boosting Vista. Lenovo says Vista is too buggy to use and the athletes will have to put up with it anyway:

According to Lenovo chairman Yang Yuanqing, they're not going to load up their ThinkPads with Vista because the new and "like unstable" operating system "could have some problems." Microsoft's new crowning jewel will be allowed on shared terminals for athletes. On a side note, they're not going to support WiFi networks either (for security reasons).

That's typical of a M$ partner, going along with a marketing push of a system they know is crap. M$ will claim the Olympics are "Vista Powered" and that's all you will see on the idiot box and cnn.com. Their CEO still hopes the upgrade treadmill will spur sales, though the overwhelming evidence is that vista is a failure. From the CEO Amelio interview:

ChannelWeb: Do you view Vista to date as sort of a disappointment? How might you describe it?

Amelio: Anything that helps the PC industry I'm for. Vista for sure has driven upgraded hardware. There's no question about the systems we're shipping today, with more memory and bigger hard drives that would normally get people prepared for Vista. So from that standpoint I'm very happy. [but he's looking forward to service packs to fix problems]

When M$ dies and this kind of intentional waste ends. Computers will always ship bigger and better but forcing people to toss their old ones because of softare "upgrades" is evil. Free software will soon provide a smaller, but stable and steady market for good hardware that will be much better for the industry.

Actually .. Mazda says full scale production of the Hydrogen hybrid RX-8 with the Renesis engine is 5 years away. Rotaries are naturally very well adapted to hydrogen use due to the separation of intake, exhaust, and combustion chambers.

And in response, I'll assert that there are many contexts in which internet apps are better designed as locally installed, robust, high-performance desktop apps than as remotely deployed, hinky, inefficient browser-caged apps.

The term web application is not often applied to Java any more. The term "web app" these days often refers to AJAX (formerly known as DHTML) apps and, less often, Flash apps.

Google Maps Goes Java For Mobile Phones...

The "web programming" that we're discussing is a mishmash of all of the disparate technologies that, together, might get the job done. AJAX itself is an amalgam of Javascript, XML, and some server-side language like Java/Python/Python, all running against MySql and in an Apache environment... that's pretty messy. And, yes, if you want something more active than simple forms and Javascript graphics, then you're probably using either Java (terrible) or Flash (also terrible.)

...so use absolute positioning instead. You act like it doesn't exist...

Sure, it exists, but it's nowhere near as streamlined as positioning and sizing in modern desktop programming. If it weren't, web devs wouldn't still be struggling with DIVs and tables and invisible spacer graphics. But they are - they have to jam a half-dozen hacks into the page in order to get control placement to behave normally and uniformly on all browsers.

The sad state of affairs with web application GUIs is almost entirely Microsoft's fault. IE6 and its rather poor support for CSS2 and DOM, which weren't addressed for 6 years...

Do you really believe that?

Imagine what would happen if Mozilla came up with a truly easy-to-use, robust, predictable, high-performance, stable web programming language. Don't you think devs would flock to it? I would in a heartbeat! And what do you think would happen to IE's market share if Google Maps and a horder of other interesting web apps ran beautifully on everything except IE?

- David Stein

Engadget
Mobile Magazine (with video)

This is a HUGE problem, that, seemingly no one cares about.
A generation of pictures, information and general "stuff" becomes unrecoverable, worthless.
I stills shoot film for important subjects just for this reason (I'm so smart/broke - huh?)
I believe Hollywood had this problem with "nitrate" film, (most of that era's film is now dust) that's how we got "safety' film

I read something a while back about storage on crystals, I archived the info, a .pdf, oh-wait, it was on that DVD that .... nevermind.
- maybe it was this.

Holographic Storage

http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/13/7/7

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/102/C5313/

Internet Archive

http://www.archive.org/index.php

here

Just wait until they start using ARM Coretex A8, 1 GHz, quad core CPU, for the phone.

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/102/C4788/

We will be able to enjoy pr0n everywhere we go!

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/334/C3986/ Not now. But soon, sooooon.

How many people here believed the PSP movies wouldn't fly? Funny, now every Tom, Dick and Harry seems to be buying in.

Since you make it sound as if India is communications nirvana, I'll introduce a few elements of reality into the picture...

I spent a small amount of time in the US, and surprisingly the tarrif structure and the talk time etc., plans available in India are far better than in the US ... in case of cellular connections countries like India are way ahead of the US/Europe, and very soon 3G deployment will be mainstream

You know, you really shouldn't lump Europe with the US in terms of mobile penetration. According to some very rudimentary looking-up, India's looking at 30% penetration by 2009 (ref), whereas Europe is going to have near-100% penetration by 2007 (ref). Also, the US even with it's "dismal" record in mobiles has a penetration rate of 70% estimated for 2006 (ref).

On top of this you have other indicators, like the percentage of subscribers actually using GPRS (leave 3G aside for the moment because its uptake hasn't been huge anywhere), which is embarassingly low in India -- which is why Airtel has a Rs99/'unlimited' use GPRS plan: they're pretty much begging the market to use the service. This is analogous to their free MMS plan in non-Delhi/Bombay markets for a long time: they pretty much had to give it away because no one wanted to send MMSes at Rs 5 a pop.

Finally, most markets tend to reward staying consumers rather than random prepaid customers who use a cellphone for a few days. I'd say if you were living in the US for a longer time you'd have been pleasantly surprised with some of the offers available, including free night+weekend minutes, and free long-distance to selected numbers.

In broadband access developed nations have lot of lead over developing ones, maybe because to have good connectivity you require undersea cables as most of the servers are in west

While India definitely needs more fiber, it doesn't use what's available well -- I wrote this in 2002 and obviously things have improved since then (cf Anil Ambani's new FALCON cable) but the lighted capacity ratios haven't(check out how much of FALCON is unlighted). The net result-- even now, 256kbps seems to be the median connect speed for residential DSL in India, when even stodgy old UK gives away 2Mbps connections practically for free, and 16/24Mbps services are becoming common. I know telcos keep a certain level of unlighted capability but given India's population and demand, the sheer amount of unlighted fiber is wasteful IMHO.

Also, millions of people in India who've ditched their government-supplied copper-line phones for GSM/CDMA/WLL phones from private companies. This bites broadband growth in the back, because these technologies have a low data trasmission limit, which is shared by all subscribers in a given area.

Realistically, if you want good residential broadband you need decent copper wiring (a concept which MTNL's/BSNL's illiterate field staff don't understand -- which is why most of India's copperline phones cannot carry 8Mbps traffic even though theoretically they could do even more) or decent Ethernet/OFC wiring (and no one's done fiber-to-the-home in India just yet). And technologies like community wifi (and Wimax) are ill-suited to India's dense urban jungles.

Vespa has recently started making a gas-electric scooter. Why pay attention to this Dutch guy's pipe dream when there is a real production (sortof) model.

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/354/C7428/

http://www.retrothing.com/2006/04/introducing_two. html

http://2strokebuzz.com/index.php/?p=2758

After the recent reports that companies like Levis were testing RFID tracking in their clothes I started searching around to see what it'd cost to get an RFID reader if I wanted to start tinkering. Although self-contained hand-held readers are still quite pricey I did find an alternative. There are companies that are selling RFID attachments for Palm and Windows CE devices. For about $200-$400 you can buy an RFID device that plugs into an SD slot. Depending on how much you want to pay you can get just a reader or a reader/writer. With a little bit of software work it probably wouldn't be very difficult at all to whip up an RFID "skimmer" that you could just stick into your pocket. Just casually walk buy a security guard and steal his access card, walk around a store and reprogram prices, etc. and nobody would know it was you since you're just walking around and the device in your pocket is doing all the real work.

The could make it out of zero-relection glass.

Citizen Unveils Concept PDA
Development of the Super-compact PDA

It doesn't seem to have been released to the public, but with the smartphone market heating up at that point there might not have been much interest.

Other posters have covered the Intel/Xircom/Rolodex REX PDA series. I have a REX 3000 and it's really neat for what it is. Any modern cellphone probably has the same capabilities (except for fitting into a PCMCIA slot).

Whoops, forgot the link!

Of course it may just be other companies jumping on the bandwagon but I'm afraid to say that some Sony's latest Vaio laptops offerings are far "sexier" and/or "cuter" (I feel ill just typing that) than the Intel/Mac MacBook Pro's.

It's the SW that sets them apart. Even I'll agree that XP is still pretty ugly nad not very clean. Having said that I can't get my head round the Mac interface either... Now, where's BASH gone ;-D

I mean... this
http://www.mobilemag.com/content/images/6469_large .jpg
vs this
http://www.learningcenter.sony.us/images/article/N otebooks/FJSeries/img_features_screen.jpg

Do people (real people that is not hackers & geeks) even care about CPU's these days?

I like what one of our users said:
"To summarize:
RFID for inventory tracking ==> Good idea
RFID for security ==> Stupid idea"

Here below I copy parts a previous comment on another story (which wasn't moderated and thus, probably not read a lot):
Anyone interested in RFID could also start with the excellent wikipedia.org entry.

Of interest, Slashdot already discussed RFID production increases before. Yes, RFID can be scary, especially in a bank or in passports. Imagine, even Sun cares for RFID. MobileMag have a small article about a 100% organic matter RFID chip developed in Korea, costing only 0.5 cents.

And if RFID and geospatial tech seriously interest you, see my sig ;-)

Apple contracts out construction of their laptop, so in a way you're correct that it goes down the same assembly line. The difference is that they contract out to highly respected manufactures.

In fact, the MacBook Pro is actually produced by Asus Technologies, who have been in the x86 business for many years, and have been well known for producing high quality notebooks (albeit not very mainstream) for some time.

Oddly enough, Asus will also be producing Lamborghini branded notebooks.
I don't understand the reasons for wanting an auto manufacturer emblem on a notebook (I mean, is there anything really "lambo" about it?) but it's still very cool, especially when you can get OSX running on it.

Acer has their Ferrari notebooks, and I don't know if they are any better in quality than the regular Acer notebooks, but... I think I'd rather have a Lamborghini than a Ferrari.

Did I just go off-topic? Damn.

The real barrier is one of price.

Well, yes and no, last october:
MobileMag have a small article about a 100% organic matter RFID chip developed in Korea, costing only 0.5 cents. From the article: The new RFID Tag chip is able to function on the 30 kHz frequency by only using 100% organic compounds and an inkjet printer. By cutting down the price considerably it will allow for thee mass production through the printing process. The chip can also be printed on any paper, plastic and wood standard.

Of interest, Slashdot already discussed RFID production increases before.

Yes, RFID can be scary, especially in a bank or in passports. Imagine, even Sun cares for RFID.

Anyone interested in RFID could also start with the excellent wikipedia.org entry.

And if RFID and geospatial tech seriously interest you, see my sig ;-)

Treo, the new ones are based off of Windows Mobile and are pretty slick. Verizon has been pushing them:

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/353/C5864/

There are at least two Logitech mice I'm aware of that use dual sensors: mouseman dual optical and a much newer V400 laptop laser mouse. I only had a regular mouseman optical, so I never researched what could be done with two sensors. There might be a simple software hack to do what you describe... or not, and you'd have to tear apart the poor animals to get two outputs.

Not quoting the sources is one of PCWorld's specialties. I do not see any reason why PCWorld should be cited at /. at all.
Here is another announcement of the same product, half a year earlier: http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/104/C3994/ Of course the mobilmag article does give a link to Eleksen.

RFID tags are so cheap (or rather, will soon be, read below), I'm really seeing a flood coming, not only for passports, for anything the human mind can imagine!

Taken from http://slashgisrs.org/
MobileMag have a small article about a 100% organic matter RFID chip developed in Korea, costing only 0.5 cents. From the article: The new RFID Tag chip is able to function on the 30 kHz frequency by only using 100% organic compounds and an inkjet printer. By cutting down the price considerably it will allow for thee mass production through the printing process. The chip can also be printed on any paper, plastic and wood standard.

Am I wrong, or did they get Ms. Portman to pose with the new laptop?

...i'll take the Korean carbon fiber pixie.

Stonger, lighter, smaller my ass - it's all about execs who want to say 'I have that new Carbon Fiber laptop!'

The new Acer Ferrari 4000?

I agree, it could go wrong. Especially with the price of RFID tags falling down dramatically, it is reasonable to believe we'll be flooded by RFID in our not-so-far future. We will required strong laws. But the is those who don't care that much with about the law!

Taking from slashgisrs.org: MobileMag have a small article about a 100% organic matter RFID chip developed in Korea, costing only 0.5 cents. From the article: The new RFID Tag chip is able to function on the 30 kHz frequency by only using 100% organic compounds and an inkjet printer. By cutting down the price considerably it will allow for thee mass production through the printing process. The chip can also be printed on any paper, plastic and wood standard. The new chips from Korea will use the 30 kHz frequency.

When I can buy an English version of this:
http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/333/C2658/

at my local electronics store for under a hundred dollars.

And when I can download non DRM'ed books for a buck each to read on it.

Furthermore, Skype uses technology from the Global IP Sound, which announced availability of their VoiceEngine Mobile platform for the Symbian.

So it should be here Soon(TM)

I use it so much with a BT enabled phone (GPRS/3G). Remote Desktop is standard installed; connect to your desktop and have _all_ software at hand, always. SSH client also available for direct access without remote desktopping.

The Nikon WiFi support with the D2X does support standards, FTP and PTP/IP, which are both published and supported by Linux.

The ptp/ip protocol:
https://www.fotonation.com/
Linux support for digital cameras and PTP/IP in particular:
http://www.gphoto.org/
Raw image processing, including encrypted Nikon D2X images:
http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp? cid=7-6459-7213
http://www.photoreview.com.au/Articlexasp/90c83053 -0a7f-45cc-ba68-9560e9f3c061/Default.htm
http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/336/C3218/
http://dailywireless.org/modules.php?name=News&fil e=article&sid=3061
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jht ml;jsessionid=E0TTJLUSVT5NSQSNDBGCKHSCJUMEKJVN?art icleID=47204433&_requestid=171509

Digital paper has been featured on Slashdot before but I can't find the reference. Fujitsu's prototype from this 2004 article looks a lot more impressive than a thin digital clock.

The Samsung YEPP yp-c1 mp3 player plays Ogg Vorbis files fine (in my not-too-demanding experience), and works easily with Linux. If Ogg and Linux support are important to you (as they were to me), it's not a bad choice. I'm not sure whether it's readily available in the West, though; mine was bought for me in China.

Anyway, here are some pictures: http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/337/C3890/

Sorry, you'll still have to go outside now and then. Simple cheap displays obviously aren't going to be based on electron guns or backlit LCDs. Pervasive displays would almost certainly resemble paper.

AT&T Wireless did this a year ago. See http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/340/C2723/ for a typical summary