The Future of Daily Computing
It seems that my love affair with all things i-whatever is over in a hurry. As some of you can remember and reference from previous posts, I have been a big fan of its fun factor and coolness just like everybody else. But that was before other mobile platforms and hardware combinations started to evolve to where the old apple tastes somewhat a bit off.
When it comes to being productive and having my devices allow me to be productive on the road, meaning when I am not at my desk, then both the iPhone and iPads have let me down. For several years until recently, I have been using the Blackberry’s but found that it was lacking in a few areas that I will address shortly. So when the apple apps came about and with it the promise of increased entertainment and limitless business productivity beyond emails and simple browsing, I finally became a convert 2 years ago.
Times have changed. Like most folks who juggle a very busy life, 10 minutes waiting for your ride or on your way to a meeting and so on can be an oasis of opportunity. This is when you can write an article, do some research. On your day off and enjoying a latte or beer by the café, I imagine that it could be a good time to organise and sort your holiday pictures and videos. All you need to do is drop it on your Micro SD or via Wifi on your phone.
Well all of this is possible unless you have an i-phone. First to get all your stuff in there, boot iTunes and if you use windows 7, it crashes every time in my case. Then no editing is possible of images as they are securely ensconced into their libraries unless you use another App like Abobe Express. Then all the edited pictures go to your camera rolls. Not a problem if you have 3 pictures but a massive organisational challenge if you have 5,000 prized but neglected images from the last 5 years of slaving away at your job.
If you keep sorting, cropping, renaming images from 10 folders and then have them sitting in the camera roll, you would need nothing short of a DNA Scattering re-sequencer to find out which edited pictures came from which folder. Find, out them back on your PC or MAC and then delete the edited originals.
Ditto for your vast music library, your “for reading” various articles and pdf documents. At one point paid USD 18 for quick office fix only to find the 1 Gz CPU could not code with that level of multi-tasking having to use so many apps one for storing.
The iPhone is too small to read anything while typing away unless you write a max of 1-2 lines per message and the iPad is too big to slide in your pocket which means I need to slug my laptop bag around to get some of that oasis of opportunity on week-ends or on my way to somewhere.
Anyway, had enough and traded the iPhone for a Dell Revue with 4.1 inch of high end feel touch screen and Android 2,2. Would have gotten the Sony Ericsson X10 at 4.0 Inch and sporting Android 2,3 but it not on the shelves as yet. Then again sample the LG Optimus 2X with 2 CPUs running at 1 Gz each but again found the screen too small for typing and checking what I am writing. Might wait it out till the Optimus 3D comes out though can’t see myself walking around with those silly 3D glasses and staring at my screen on my way to meetings now can I?
After lots of frustration, I came up with the following conclusion. A handheld computer phone with about 5 inches of usable screen and a soft touch screen keyboard so you can write, read, edit on the go is what I want. Micros SD capacity of 64 – 128 Gigabyte, a 205 gPU and 2 x 1 Gz CPU. For power I will have the 3,500 mAmps battery for power usage all day long. Also need a solar panel on the back to top up the battery plus a kinetic energy generator that can use your motion to generate electricity. Then I want an extended scondscreen that I can roll out like a sheet of paper for presentations or watching my videos on vacation.
Yes, I will keep on dreaming but you know what those Kinetic Generator already exist. They create electricity as you walk and move around. This one is a bit big and will not fit in my phone or pocket.
But this one as a sample prototype is only 1 Cubic CM and will surely git into my 5 Inch PDA phone on Steroids.
