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More on the Jackito Tactile PDA
Roland Piquepaille writes "A week ago, I wrote a column about a new Tactile Digital Assistant (TDA), the Jackito. Several Slashdot readers questioned the existence of the product and thought it might be an elaborate scam. I also had serious doubts. But as both the company behind this TDA, Novinit, and myself are French, I decided to investigate and contacted the company. And I spent several hours with the CEO and the CTO. I told them about the mistakes they made in their early announcement and asked what kind of corrective actions they were taking to fix the situation and build trust in their product. I also discussed their vision of this TDA, the history of the project and its possible future. But more importantly, I used an early prototype. I don't know if this TDA will be a success, but one thing is sure: it's real. Read this interview for more details."
add wi-fi capabilities, and rename it to Hackito, and your company will be a step closer to the PDA world domination :)
the PDA market (and Tablet PC market for that matter) isn't really going to take off (in the way it should take off) until we can give people more than the 72/100 dots per inch on the screen
What the hell are you talking about? PDA's were never designed to "convince people to completely drop paper". The functions that a pda serves has nothing to do with dpi of displays. PDA's are all about the three F's, functionality and form factor. Deliver a reasonable set of functionality in a "convenient" form factor. If the Sony Clie shipped with a 300dpi 3"x5" screen, do you think that they would have taken over the world? Bet not.
I did RTFA article. Don't assume, you make yourself look like an ass.
I could already use my PDA without a stylus - I have used a pen, keys, my fingers.
Handwriting recognition is useful and someone can be really practiced at it that the speed is quite fast. Also many PDA's have a keyboard feature. Removing front cover - ok this is about as cool as changing the faceplate on a phone (big whoop).
Multiple virtual keyboard? Is this anything like the touch-keyboard that PDA's have now a days?
No such thing as "totally reliable" if you believe that then i have a proposition for you - some money has come my way from Nigeria.
I backup my PDA everytime it hits the cradle.
So whats the big deal with this thing? The only new attraction is that it totally omits the need for stylus and lets you have two touch points at once....cute but not worth $600.00
-A
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
Still laughing at this joke when you have had ample evidence in these columns that M. Chirac was right on this Iraq thing (arguably for the only time in his career but still)? When will both of our nations cease competing for being the most stupid on earth? Sheesh.
P.S.: Roland Piquepaille is real, but don't trust me on that, use Google. Oh, and you misspelt "misspelt" by the way.
Oh Great! Now we are at the point where we have NO WAY to distinguish between a GOOD SPAM and a REAL Bussines. This is one of the next big issues on the internet: Credibility. I know it has been an issue all along, but it is slowly moving more into the forground of the battles fought out in public.
who | grep -i blond | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger; mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount; sleep
Now, if you wanted to trash 'mericuns, well, that's a different matter.