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Janak Parekh
04-03-2003, 02:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.dpreview.com/news/0304/03040202epsonp1000.asp' target='_blank'>http://www.dpreview.com/news/0304/0...2epsonp1000.asp</a><br /><br /></div>This is a really neat-looking device. It's a compact device including a 640x480 3.8" transflective screen, 10GB hard drive, and a CF slot -- to support photo viewing and organization. It's such a disappointment, therefore, that they didn't integrate full multimedia into the device -- could you imagine a CE solution built on top of this?<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/parekh/news/20030402-Epson-PhotoPC.jpg" /><br /><br />If you read Japanese, the specs are <a href="http://www.i-love-epson.co.jp/products/photopc/p1000/p10001.htm">here</a>.

ricksfiona
04-03-2003, 02:09 AM
Just wait a couple of years.... They'll have 10GB SD cards..

michael
04-03-2003, 02:56 AM
Looks strangely like a Media2Go prototype shown at CeBit

Sheynk
04-03-2003, 03:17 AM
Looks strangely like a Media2Go prototype shown at CeBit

I have to agree with the fact that this device almost screams "Media2go" with the specs presented

David C
04-03-2003, 04:30 AM
It's a compact device including a 640x480 3.8" transflective screen

Take that screen, and build a Pocket PC around it. Common, where have the manufacture's brain been? Are we still going to be using 240x320 10 years from now?

billb
04-03-2003, 05:05 AM
There is only ONE reason Epson is interested in bringing a device like this to market and that is to sell more Ink Jet Printers so that they can ultimatley sell more high-margin ink. The only way they can accomplish this is to increase the size of their market (ie increase the rate of conversion of film to digitial) which today is constrained by the requirement to own a PC for storage. Personally I think their marketing/strategy with the device is spot on.

This however, does not mean that I wouldn't love to see HP take this form factor and turn it into a PocketPC with a 10GB hard drive. Just keep in mind that such a device as a PocketPC would cost at least $1000 imo given the different margin requirements that HP would have for a PPC as they aren't selling ink jet printers/ink cartridges with a PPC that might make up the margin difference.

-Bill

Jafar
04-03-2003, 05:15 AM
Hmm, a pocketpc platform with a large screen and that's a bit bigger than today's pocketpc's. Wait a sec, I got it. Isn't that what an HPC is? :P. I hve an intermec 6651 that has now been discontinued. Problem with $1000 pda's is people would rather spend $1000 on a notebook or subnotebook than a PDA. Don't get me wrong, I know an HPC has a keyboard but this particular unit that I'm using folds over into tablet form and is quite small. Oh well, let's hope the next round of HPC like devices make it.

Jafar

PhatCohiba
04-03-2003, 05:26 AM
It's a compact device including a 640x480 3.8" transflective screen

Take that screen, and build a Pocket PC around it. Common, where have the manufacture's brain been? Are we still going to be using 240x320 10 years from now?

Don't they realize how much better web browsing would be with pocket ie 5.5 and 640x480.

I mean way better. And how about word & Excel.

felixdd
04-03-2003, 06:33 AM
As of today the only HPC's on the market are the Intermec (non-consumer targetted devices) and the NEC's. Personally I think NEC's move to the ARM processor will be their downfall (not much ARM software for HPC's compared to the old MIPS and SH3 processors -- since people don't make new programs anymore).

What's the battery life on the Epson -- that's what I'm curious about

kidA
04-03-2003, 06:50 AM
i've been hoping for oh, a year and a half now (since the ipod came out) for someone to make a PPC with a built-in HD of at least 2 or 3 GB. HDs come pretty small these days so you could get one in a pretty reasonable form factor, and it would finally make multimedia use on a PDA useful.

midtoad
04-03-2003, 07:15 AM
Just wait... within 6 months some geeks will have a version of Linux hacked into this thing. I mean, it got's to be way easier to do it with this device than it was with X=Box, for which there already is a version of Linux.

Daimaou
04-03-2003, 07:17 AM
Well I would like to add

got also CF I/II port, USB port(PC or Printer USB DIRECT-PRINT), Video-Out put. And for the screen it is more a "Photo fine liquid crystal" like we can find on Sharp Zaurus 700 (Polysilicon)

http://akiba.sorobangeeks.com/news_2140.html ;) a bit earlier than everybody :oops: and with a nice little picture.

Will cost less than 600 US$ and available this summer

David C
04-03-2003, 10:28 AM
Hmm, a pocketpc platform with a large screen and that's a bit bigger than today's pocketpc's. Wait a sec, I got it. Isn't that what an HPC is?

Having a 640x480 does not mean the screen have to be big. This is a prime example where 640x480 can be 3.8". I mean, look at the toshiba 550, it has a 4" screen, and it's still a pocket pc. I have a Jornada 720, and I gave it up for a pocket pc even thought the Jornada 720 has 640x240 STDN screen. That screen is no better then a discolored 256k screen even though it claims to be in 65k color.

Don't they realize how much better web browsing would be with pocket ie 5.5 and 640x480.

I agree. It's almost pointless to have wifi and IE when you can only do it on 240x320. Even the palm is gaining up on the resolution.[/quote]

sponge
04-03-2003, 12:49 PM
I sent this link in as news, it's a VERY interesting Media Pocket PC:
http://www.ldlc.fr/fiche/PB00016715.html?origine=670014

The specs on it are as of yet unseen in really any other handheld device I've ever seen.

Daimaou
04-03-2003, 01:41 PM
it was an april fool... ;)

saljamex
04-03-2003, 03:55 PM
WHAT FOR?, THEN YOU WILL HAVE A DESKTOP, NOTEBOOK, A TABLETPC, MP3 PLAYER, PICTURE PLAYER, AND SO ON. WHAT WE ARE ALWAYS WAITING, IS FOR A REAL "ALL IN ONE". THE PROBLEM IS THAT THIS GUYS ALWAYS GIVE US THE TECHNOLOGY IN LITTLE DROPS SO THEY WOULD GIVE US A REASON TO CHANGE FOR THE NEW STUFF!!! 8)

dMores
04-04-2003, 10:29 AM
Just wait... within 6 months some geeks will have a version of Linux hacked into this thing. I mean, it got's to be way easier to do it with this device than it was with X=Box, for which there already is a version of Linux.
the xbox has a far greater distribution than this thing.
the only hacked linux pda is the ipaq running "familiar". none of the other pdas out there have been linuxed.

which is a shame, really. i't love to install linux on my loox.