Loox

[JMountford]

I can't wait to see this new PPC in person. It certainly has an elligant understated class of it's own. This thing is styled like I would style my very own machine. If any one gets any additional news please post it ASAP.

[renz]

Hi, can´t wait to see one myself. Luckily I will be able go to CeBit here in Germany. :D Perhaps I can post some more info then (March 13-20).

Find some info here: http://www.infosync.no/news/2002/n/1380.php

[Jne]

Fuji-Siemens rules :)
This is the perfect tool as of today's Pocket PC technology... I hope it will arrive on may as their PR told me by email !!

[msmasitti]

I dont think I am going to get one. Hopefully this will encourage the bigger companies to hurry up (not rush, ;)). It looks too "rubbery".

[disciple]

It looks awsome for me but when .... :(

We all get to love the new stuff but by the time we could put our hands on one sthg else will start to look better :x

[James]

We all get to love the new stuff but by the time we could put our hands on one sthg else will start to look better :x


Indeed - perhaps the biggest pain in keeping up is that big hole in the bottom of our wallets. I bought a 3870 a couple months ago, and am realizing that I'll probably be buying at least one perhaps two more devices this year. I doubt this will be the infamous "year of the pocketpc", but I think we'll be seeing quite a few new and innovative designs coming out. As always, the hard part will be finding the one that has everything you want.

[spg]

We all get to love the new stuff but by the time we could put our hands on one something else will start to look better :x


I agree, just like it has been for the past few years with PC stuff. You buy a new computer one day, only to have it obsolete within a year.

[JMountford]

I was reading Somwhere, Probably here on "Thoughts" that Casio has an Xscale device in the works... I would love to see Xscale devices with USB Master built in as well as Bluetooth and WiFi.

As a matter of fact I designed a devices a while back and spent a couple of months trying to get funding to make a prototype and get some financial backing for a possible production run, but when you are on your own with little money to spend no one takes you seriously.

I love teh Style of this Loox Device. I would like to see it hit the States, but we never get the really good devices that hit Europe and Asia.

[James]

but we never get the really good devices that hit Europe and Asia.


So true, and I've never been able to figure out why. Obviously, some are incompatible technology issues (cell phone systems for example), but that doesn't explain things like stereo's, TV monitors, CD players, etc.

[spg]

but we never get the really good devices that hit Europe and Asia.


So true, and I've never been able to figure out why. Obviously, some are incompatible technology issues (cell phone systems for example), but that doesn't explain things like stereo's, TV monitors, CD players, etc.


They are afraid we will like them to much and they will have a shortage over there! :lol:

[James]

They are afraid we will like them to much and they will have a shortage over there! :lol:


:twisted: Oh. well, in that case, I say we start a mass purchase campaign and cause artificial shortages and then sell everything on eBay at obnoxiously high prices! just kidding! :lol:

[JMountford]

Maybe we can get together with Andy or Marlof or someone and like have them purchase massive amounts of the devices that we Americans have paid for and saturate the American market with Foreign devices and then demand a ransome to get them off the market.... A ransome of "one million dollars.... mwa ha ha ha..."

[Dave Conger]

Maybe we can get together with Andy or Marlof or someone and like have them purchase massive amounts of the devices that we Americans have paid for and saturate the American market with Foreign devices and then demand a ransome to get them off the market.... A ransome of "one million dollars.... mwa ha ha ha..."


I have seriously thought of having my friends in Japan buy me products that never made it to the US (expansions and such). Sometimes they are pretty cheap when you do the conversion to USD.

[JMountford]

I would certainly be doing that PDA except for two things, 1. I have no friends... 2. I don't speak Japanease. :wink:

[spg]

:twisted: Oh. well, in that case, I say we start a mass purchase campaign and cause artificial shortages and then sell everything on eBay at obnoxiously high prices! just kidding! :lol:


Hey, that isn't a bad idea! Expect for one thing, wouldn't that kinda be like cheating? :evil:

[JMountford]

I don't think it is cheating. I would say supply and demand... The American Way. 8)

[spg]

I don't think it is cheating. I would say supply and demand... The American Way. 8)


Hey, that works for me :wink:.

[James]

I don't think it is cheating. I would say supply and demand... The American Way. 8)


Hey, that works for me :wink:.


Me too, but we'd better be careful, 'cause heaven forbid we be too successful, 'cause then the guys that weren't will get the government to beat the crap out of us.

hmm...perhaps I'm letting my current pet peeve get the better of me today.

[JMountford]

We can always get OJs lawyers and lose the evidence!

[philfp]

I agree, just like it has been for the past few years with PC stuff. You buy a new computer one day, only to have it obsolete within a year.


In a whole year? Wow... the market must be moving pretty slowly. I'd hazard a guess that whatever you buy will be obsolete within 4 months at the current rate of product release (at least, that's what they want you to believe).

Phil

[spg]

I agree, just like it has been for the past few years with PC stuff. You buy a new computer one day, only to have it obsolete within a year.


In a whole year? Wow... the market must be moving pretty slowly. I'd hazard a guess that whatever you buy will be obsolete within 4 months at the current rate of product release (at least, that's what they want you to believe).


Within a year, not a whole year. But more likely that it is not obsolete, just not anywhere new the nearest thing. I have a 800MHz machine that was very close to top of the line when I built it a year ago, it is still my main machine although the latest is more like 1.8 GHz. But I get the point you are trying to make, this is a very, very fast market.

[JMountford]

You buy and Buy just to stay ahead. It is the nature of the beast.

[wrevans]

At last a faster unit, been waiting for one that is faster then the current 206 mhz. Did not want to upgrade to Pocket PC 2002 till the new faster unit came out.