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Review of the Cybiko Xtreme
Levendis23 writes: "We've just posted our latest review: the Cybiko Xtreme. Pretty slick little gadget, with RF networking and ability to set up bluetooth-like clouds so that other units can talk to each other, play games, or swap files. You can can even use another unit at as a repeater to bounce your message to another unit out of your range."
The article is one big freakin' advertisment for this stuff. Is slashdot gearing up for Christmas, or what?
The Gardener
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Although it would take a week or better to make it. Their little SMS service doesn't have routing capabilities, so the message would bounce around with all the other lost messages.
And somebody has to say it, so "Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these...."
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
I can't wait for the day when this sort of technology (the ability to communicate with/through other units) comes to the PDA. Palm Pilots and Visors are on just about every desk here at the office and the ability to schedule meetings, send messages and (play games) over wireless would be very useful and widely used.
Wooden armaments to battle your imaginary foes!
I was somewhat disappointed with the article, it has no mention on what the device can actually do. Sure, the buttons here and there are great, yada yada, but what happens when you turn it on?
From what it sounds like, you can send and recieve text messages between devices, maybe play games, *maybe* send and recieve mp3 files from your friends if you both have that expansion card. Am i missing something? I guess I can say that in the town I live in, I really doubt anyone would have one of these, and those willing would probably rather have one of those motorola 2 way radios, much longer range, and if you just needed to 'talk' to someone else, that would do the trick.
Ah well, maybe it does some other stuff im not aware of.