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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."
How do we know Roland Piquepaille is real? Having a blog you like to link to from slashdot is hardly proof of identity.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
I hate to be the harbinger of bad news, but 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.
Its hard to convince people to completly drop paper when any standard laser will spit out printouts at 600dpi (or greater) yet the best displays are still only pitched at 100 dpi.
If you had a choice, which would you pick ?
The same applies to the sensitivity of the touch-screen.
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The submitter is a long known troll.. I don't trust this for one minute.
I can't believe that Slashdot would run this story without some type of vertification from multiple sources.
When it gets proven that this is a total fraud, don't say I didn't worn you.
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
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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.
Funny thing...not long after reading the original article about this PDA, I was at the city bus transfer station waiting for the bus...and I happened to see a fellow fiddling with something that looked a lot like that Jackito PDA illustration. At least, it had a similar form factor and the braille strip in the same place, even though it wasn't identical. So, I can't speak for the Jackito PDA--heck, I'm not even entirely sure that what the guy was fiddling with was a PDA--but I can say I've seen someone using something that looked a lot like the picture of that thing. Didn't get to ask him about it, because he put it away and went to catch the bus I got off of.
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