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Danger's Mobile Device - The HipTop

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the incredible-converging-technology dept.

A random reader writes "All the "convergence" devices I've seen so far are great, but they all miss a feature or two. Cellphones with PDAs but no keyboard, PDAs with keyboards but no phone, etc. Has anyone ever heard of the HipTop? This little baby has a screen the size of a gameboy advance, runs Java, has a cellphone, keyboard, PDA functions, a camera and even an 8-voice MIDI synth... " Excluding a color screen, what more could one want in a toy?

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  1. What more could people want in a toy? by yatest5 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ummm, variable speeds?

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    • Mod parent up! [a] by Anonymous Coward (Score:5) Thurs, June 31, @13:37
  2. Since you asked... by Talisman · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Excluding a color screen, what more could one want in a toy?"

    - GPS
    - Hologram projection device
    - Grappling hook
    - Uranium energy cells (no need for batteries. ever.)
    - Death ray (add pistol to list of things i can stop carrying around)
    - Interfaces to every type of gaming console in existence
    - Quake 3

    Santa's gonna get a shakedown unless he produces the goods.

    Talisman

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  3. another tricorder wannabe by kaoshin · · Score: 5, Funny

    It doesn't look like it has enough lights. How are you supposed to analyze the atmosphere on an alien homeworld without rows of blinkin LED's?