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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. 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

    --

    "Study your math, kids. Key to the universe." -The Archangel Gabriel
  2. Someone tell me again... by ChristianBaekkelund · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Someone tell me again, why are we trying to achieve "convergence"?...

    I mean, really, what's wrong with specialized devices that are really good at what they do, instead of trying to throw it all into one device which is not as good as the specialized devices at any given task, but just amalgamates them?

    For example, I personally have so far steered clear of those printer/fax/copier/scanner all in one jobs, because I just have a sneaking suspicion that if I bought one, I'd regret it...Can't quite put my finger on why, though.

    With regards to cellphones/pagers/PDAs, etc., I am actually far more in favor of "convergence", but this seems to almost have gone too far?...

    Or am I just paranoid?...heh

  3. Nokia Phones by jeriqo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Both Nokia 9110 and 9210 have a keyboard, a few PDA features, and of course, cellphones.

    They're pretty expensive, and probably not as powerful as regular PDAs, but they may fit your needs.

    For more info, check the nokia website:
    9910
    9210

    The 7650 is pretty interresting too, but has no keyboard.

    -J

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    Alexis 'jeriqo' BRET
  4. 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?

  5. Err... it already exists in Japan!! by nikko · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dude, check out the latest DoCoMo phones. THey do it all. They have built in keyboard, built-in PDA, run Java, built-in tiny digital camera. They send email, they browse the web (well at least i-mode sites), they can attach pictures to your email.

    Oh yeah, as an added bonus the mobile phone service actually works!! (unlike in the U.S.).

    Unfortunately they're only available in Tokyo (looks like a decent place to live). I don't think people in the U.S. realize just how far behind our mobile communications infrastructure has fallen.

  6. Re:this is a conceptual device only by bluescreen · · Score: 4, Informative
    In addition to being uninformed, you also didn't bother to read.


    They are funded pretty well, and I can tell you
    that I've personally seen real and working danger devices. I beleive they also did a working demo at comdex.


    I know this may seem like flaimbait, but I cant stand it when people post armchair assertions as fact from a quick skim of a site..