06-22-2002, 03:00 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Everyone wants to be a Hollywood star - even the Pocket PC!
I received this message today from Robobeat, and I thought it was pretty neat (SEMI-SPOILER ALERT):
"I watched the Sum of All Fears the other night and I noticed that it featured a Casio Pocket PC. It was an industrial device, I think some sort of modified EG-800 model that was waterproof (like the EG800) and also had some sort of wireless GPRS connection built-in or something. It was cool. It was used in the movie a lot to show detailed satellite photos and to send email messages and to chat when the cellphone wouldn't work. It was actually a useful part of the plot. He used it to try to communicate to the President in the climactic scene of the movie (after the nuke blew-up and all sorts of stuff is on fire and stuff and he's trapped in his car...). I really liked the scene where the main head CIA guy gives the main character a secret disk when they were in a car with rain poring down outside... It was a CF card in its little plastic case that had the top-secret satellite photos in it! We've come a long way, baby."
I just saw this movie on Wednesday night, and loved it! It's deeply frightening though when you consider how plausible it is. I was impressed with how they used the Pocket PCs as well - it was fairly realistic. Although I had to stifle a laugh when Jack Ryan was using the Casio Pocket PC in an instant messaging chat with the ex-KGB guy and he somehow managed 100 WPM with a mystical input method that we couldn't see. Maybe Microsoft has created a version of Transcriber for the CIA that works far better than what we're using.  I can see it now - Jack Ryan writes on the screen with Transcriber "Stop the attack, we've been tricked!". The message that the ex-KGB guy reads is "Popped my back, weary as heck!" Actually, I'm being generous with Transcriber - the message would make far less sense, and words that aren't really words.
Have you see the Pocket PC in any movies, TV shows, or media ads lately?
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06-22-2002, 03:31 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 115
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David Caruso/CSI Maimi
David Caruso in recent CSI: Maimi previews is using an older, dark grey HP 54x Pocket PC to take notes at a crime scene.
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06-22-2002, 04:12 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 95
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Actually, what I'd really like to know if how Jack Ryan's Pocket PC was able to get a wireless signal in the near Baltimore right after a nuclear explosion. Those must be quite some heavy duty cell towers they have there 
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06-22-2002, 04:32 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,468
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The Tarrantino episodes of Alias where on the characters sent an e-mail to the CIA on an iPAQ.
Several presenters on BBC News 24 (digital TV/satelite news station in the UK) use Pocket PCs on air - presumably for quick updates.
Oh and that video on www.theloox.com - is going to be on TV soonish as an advert!
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06-22-2002, 04:35 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 381
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I remember in "Tomorrow never dies" (James Bond) there wase a Palm Size PC, the Jornada 420.
Also, I can't remember the name right now, but the was one where this one type of CIA agent was saving people from China and stuff like that; he was using a Cassiopea E-105/115/125 (couldn't tell due to proprietory software, even the Casio logo was erased). I'll try to think of the name, He used it to download video clips and for IM.
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06-22-2002, 05:17 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 630
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24, Tomb Raider
In the TV show 24, the bad guys used a combo PDA/Cell phone (model?) to talk to the traitor inside the good guys headquarters.
In Tomb Raider, the movie, Lara Croft has a combo PDA/Cell phone and a PDA. The PDA never gets used, it's in a cradle on the right side of her steering wheel in her Land Rover.
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06-22-2002, 05:42 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 6,878
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I recently saw a Wesley Snipes movie (Can't remember the name), he had a Casio he was using to play back some Chinese dialog for translation....
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06-22-2002, 06:48 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 360
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Big Fat Lier and 24
First of all in the series "24" the PDA was a Samsung I300 it is a CDMA Palm Hybrid. Samsung has two new Palm OS Handsets Coming out soon.
I saw a Frankie Munez movie (Big Fat Lier) with my daughter a few months ago and the two kids stell this Movie Producer's PDA. It is a big part of the story and the PDA which happens to be an iPaq is featured quite prominintly throughout the movie.
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06-22-2002, 07:18 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 784
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"ER" had an iPAQ cameo a while ago....I don't remember the plot of that episode though.
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06-22-2002, 07:48 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 105
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Undercover Brother
Undercover brother features an iPaq held by eddie griffith's girlfriend when they are on the golf course, I also saw the wesley snipes movie it was in his car inside a tonnel where he had it,
The Half-Ling
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