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  • tpryce93
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    Originally posted by OrangePeel
    by 2010 , analysts are predicting that all mobile devices will have wifi, bluetooth, high resolution cameras with video, Mobile OS, full phone to computer integration, high capacity flash memory, streamlined audio playback, and a one of a kind ID tag
    for a plethora of uses as well as other things.

    sounds too good to be true? Well the truth is sometimes...well awesome.


    ------------Imagine, you wake up to your phone's alarm that you have picked yourself from an unlimited library of music, you pull it from it's docking cradle that is hooked up to your computer, which allows it to download the latest edition of your favorite newspaper, and pull times for important times of that day like a baseball game of your favorite team which it has learned to do based on your programming history. You plug it into your car's stereo so that the stereo can playback your tunes on your way to work. On your way there, your phone is updated that there has been an accident 3 miles up the highway you're on, and shows you the quickest route around it. After arriving to work on time thanks to your phone, you check in to the receptionist's desk and swipe your phone's ID tag across a scanner that brings up today's agenda at work, along with other notes that have been programmed to be sent to all employees. During work, you are assigned to deliver a presentation in an offsite building, you download the presentation directly to your phone which allows you to transport it seemlessly.

    ------After work you head to the big game at Mile High, monday night action, the tickets which you happen to have ordered with your phone via the ticketmaster mobilephone service a few weeks earlier while at a bar discussing plans with your friends. At the stadium, you have a great oppurtunity to take some pictures with your phone which has an amazingly revolutionary zoom option that allows you to zoom in as close as you want by using new technology that takes digital zoom and enhances the image to an amazingly sharp quality. You can see Champ Bailey's nose hairs for god's sake, after the game, you show your friends your pictures, and they tell you they would like them as well, so with the bluetooth on your phone in seconds you have transferred your photos to all of your friends at the same time.

    ----You go home, and out of exhaustion you place your phone in some arbitrary location, when you realize that you just passed out, you find that you lost you phone. But you don't panic, because you know that you can head to your computer and with the phone's ID RFLocator tag, the phone will start beeping intensely which allows you to find it without a problem.
    You dock your phone, and go to sleep, so you can do the same thing again tommorow.

    Alright not word for word, but paraphrasing a 30 minute presentation a guy from some influential phone technology firm (can't remember the name), and completely blew us away at my dad's office.
    Hopefully they will be better then the gizmondo


    anybody remember gizmondo?






    exactly

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  • str8jacket
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    J Allard is a funny dude

    anyways, i love my 30 gig ipod, and theres no "Ipod killer" that would make me feel differently about it

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  • OrangePeel
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    by 2010 , analysts are predicting that all mobile devices will have wifi, bluetooth, high resolution cameras with video, Mobile OS, full phone to computer integration, high capacity flash memory, streamlined audio playback, and a one of a kind ID tag
    for a plethora of uses as well as other things.

    sounds too good to be true? Well the truth is sometimes...well awesome.


    ------------Imagine, you wake up to your phone's alarm that you have picked yourself from an unlimited library of music, you pull it from it's docking cradle that is hooked up to your computer, which allows it to download the latest edition of your favorite newspaper, and pull times for important times of that day like a baseball game of your favorite team which it has learned to do based on your programming history. You plug it into your car's stereo so that the stereo can playback your tunes on your way to work. On your way there, your phone is updated that there has been an accident 3 miles up the highway you're on, and shows you the quickest route around it. After arriving to work on time thanks to your phone, you check in to the receptionist's desk and swipe your phone's ID tag across a scanner that brings up today's agenda at work, along with other notes that have been programmed to be sent to all employees. During work, you are assigned to deliver a presentation in an offsite building, you download the presentation directly to your phone which allows you to transport it seemlessly.

    ------After work you head to the big game at Mile High, monday night action, the tickets which you happen to have ordered with your phone via the ticketmaster mobilephone service a few weeks earlier while at a bar discussing plans with your friends. At the stadium, you have a great oppurtunity to take some pictures with your phone which has an amazingly revolutionary zoom option that allows you to zoom in as close as you want by using new technology that takes digital zoom and enhances the image to an amazingly sharp quality. You can see Champ Bailey's nose hairs for god's sake, after the game, you show your friends your pictures, and they tell you they would like them as well, so with the bluetooth on your phone in seconds you have transferred your photos to all of your friends at the same time.

    ----You go home, and out of exhaustion you place your phone in some arbitrary location, when you realize that you just passed out, you find that you lost you phone. But you don't panic, because you know that you can head to your computer and with the phone's ID RFLocator tag, the phone will start beeping intensely which allows you to find it without a problem.
    You dock your phone, and go to sleep, so you can do the same thing again tommorow.

    Alright not word for word, but paraphrasing a 30 minute presentation a guy from some influential phone technology firm (can't remember the name), and completely blew us away at my dad's office.

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  • The Dark Knight
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    You can expect to see alot more of these combo gadgets in the future.


    It makes more sense to combine alot of these technologies as they get smaller.

    Alot of people years ago said combining a camera with a cellphone was asinine.

    Well, it'a practically standard equipment now.


    Take my PSP for example,

    Occasionaly, I have alot of downtime at work. So I like a wide variety of things to do to pass the time. So the fact that the PSP can play games, music, video, and surf the internet is a HUGE plau for me. With a big card and an internet connection, it's hard to stay bored with the thing.

    After getting the 1GB stick, I'm able to get nearly 8 hours of video on the card. I'll have all sorts of stuff on there from Bronco highlights, movies, tv shows, SNL skits. ect ect. I have about 5 albums worth of MP3's, 100+ pictures, and not to mention, 5 PSP games.


    Anyway, This is thing is just the tip of the iceberg.

    There were be many more of these multi funtional handheld media devices pretty soon.

    Hell, the newest cellphones practically do alot of that now.

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  • silver_black
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    Originally posted by tpryce93
    Microsofts "Ipod killer" gadget thingy
    right. an ipod "killer" from micro$oft......


    does it come with viruses preloaded? and multiple crashes and insane number of security patches. wow cant wait.

    how many drivers will i need to download for it to be recognized by the OS....



    pfffft.

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  • aberdien
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    man i'm still waiting to get an ipod....


    need more space than 512 kbs

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  • AZOmae
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    My guy can take that girl out any day.

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  • xX-Bronco-Xx
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    Originally posted by anton1287
    thats not a knife..

    THIS IS A KNIFE TO KILL AN IPOD WITH!!!!




    Thats a gun


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  • anton1287
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    thats not a knife..

    THIS IS A KNIFE TO KILL AN IPOD WITH!!!!




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  • xX-Bronco-Xx
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    Sounds like crap


    Actually I didn't read it because anything microsoft tries to copy isn't that great.

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  • OrangePeel
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    ipod for me too, but i'm intrigued by what MS could do with this, and if it could have compatatbility with the Xbox. This will also round out the WMP and Urge Trio if it's any good.

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  • tpryce93
    started a topic Microsofts "Ipod killer" gadget thingy

    Microsofts "Ipod killer" gadget thingy

    A report from Bloomberg.com says that a J Allard-produced “iPod rival” will be out by this Christmas; Next-Gen asks Xbox expert and journalist Dean Takahashi and Microsoft itself about any possible videogame capabilities.
    ImageRumors of a portable Xbox-branded multimedia/gaming device have been circulating the Web for several months now. Today’s Bloomberg report claims that a “portable music and video player” headed up by former Xbox bullhorn J Allard would be made available by this Christmas.

    The article doesn’t refer to any videogame capabilities of the supposed iPod-killer. However, because of J Allard’s prominent role in the past with the Xbox brand and prior rumors of his involvement with an Xbox portable device, the story deserved a second look.

    Microsoft went ahead and gave Next-Gen the following rather predictable response: “The story you reference was based on speculation and rumors and, as such, we didn’t participate. We don’t have anything to announce at this time.”

    San Jose Mercury News’ Takahashi, who has made a name for himself in the games industry by digging deep into the inner workings of the development of the Xbox and Xbox 360 (see his most recent book, The Xbox 360 Uncloaked), offered the following: “I think [Microsoft has] been prepping the music industry about a launch, but they have not been talking to the game industry. That may mean that this product is aimed just at the music industry. What I don't know is if there is any game functionality, or if downloadable games are part of it. And I don't know if they would try to do something else for the games industry.”

    While not 100 percent certain of Microsoft's plans, in Uncloaked, Takahashi said that a team of Microsoft engineers is working on a handheld entertainment platform.

    Xbox chief Peter Moore and even Microsoft chairman Bill Gates have both hinted at Microsoft’s desire to get into the portable gaming space.

    In addition, earlier this year, analysts at The Diffusion Group said that it expects Microsoft to launch a PSP and DS rival in late 2007/early 2008.

    Also of interesting note in the Bloomberg article, accompanying Allard in this new hardware venture is Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft, the division that houses Xbox and Games for Windows operations.

    Microsoft is keeping a tight lid on its portable plans, but judging by teaser comments made by Microsoft executives and those in the know, the question of a handheld Microsoft games system isn’t a matter of “if,” but “when.”

    Industry watchers can also speculate on the possibility of two serious portable entertainment platforms from Microsoft--one with gaming capabilities and one without.













    this looks cool but i think i'll just stick with my PSP and Ipod. link
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