I like the UMPC too!! See, I go to the bathroom to do the "#2 necessity" every day in the morning and I am addicted to reading something while I'm doing it.
Usually I read newspaper and magazines, and that is the only reason I still have those "paper things". If I have an Origami I can read my news from anywhere without having my eyes hurting because of the small fonts on devices such as PDAs or cell phones.
I think it's great!!
But they should put some DVR device on it. That would be so cool!! An Archos AV-500 like device.
The buzz-pop-fizz of Microsoft's (don't lie-Intel's) UMPC toy was unfortunate. I saw something in the videos that I imagined being pretty useful, given a second generation. What it LOOKED like they were going to have was:
GPS and location-aware services.
A neat gaming device (especially if two licensed owners of the apps at home could bluetooth fight it out.
Wireless broadband internet, for rich media messaging, but also for remote office niftyness. (And VoIP would work just fine there, right?)
Okay, honestly, when I see the Origami, I think of the "decks" from Neuromancer, and I want that badly. Couldn't this be the device that most closely resembles a deck? (The Nokia 770 would be a close runner up, but I imagine that'll die faster, because it only has linux diehards behind it).
Last word, I KNOW it won't last, because I can't imagine Bruce Willis pulling out his Origami to flick a little catty message to Demi at the Oscars. It's no Blackberry.
--Chris of [chrisbrogan.com]

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