pocket pcs hit the big screen!!

[jornadaholic]

I just got back from the movies and saw halloween resurection and it was great :D and to make it even better the leading laddy uses a pocket pc... bet u cant guess what it is...
if u answered an ipaq you were exactly 100% WRONG it was a jornada 5 not 60 but 40 8O and it plays a very important part in the movie but youll have to go watch the movie to find out what she uses it for

[Jason Dunn]

I doubt I'll ever see that movie, but it's cool to see them using Pocket PCs in ANY movie. Did they call it a Palm? :roll:

[jornadaholic]

nope....thank god
they didnt really make a distintion between the two...but everyone in the theater prob thought it was a palm and not a pocket pc

[sundown]

We saw two movies this weekend - Crocodile Hunter Collision Course (hey, we have 6 year old) and Sum Of All Fears and both featured pocket PC's in leading positions. On the Crocodile Hunter movie it was used for tracking a moving target (iPaq) and on Sum Of All Fears it was used as a secure messeging device and a top secret image viewer (using compact flash - not sure what make the device was. It may have been "made up").

Bill

[Dave Conger]

Remember the Jornada 430se in one of the more recent James Bond's? The device got some pretty good airtime in that movie. That is one of the first that I remember seeing a Pocket PC in.

[dcharles18]

I believe the SOAF device was a Casio EG-800

Didn't Laura Croft have some sort of Jornada in Tomb Raider?

[Thinkingman]

I thought she was using an Erricson device? because she was using it wihtthe blue tooth head set. WAsnt it the pda phone, i remember going to the Erricsons website and them advertising it there.

[Irlut]

I think it was some early version of the P800... that's the only Ericsson PDAish phone I can think of right now...

[ppc_addictted]

i just saw the new Sinpes film.

it's sweet.

they used a Casio Pocket PC, he used it mainly for receiving information about his missions and where to go for his debreifs.

[Dave Conger]

Just watch Austin Powers 2 again...anyone catch the PDA in the early scene? It isn't a Pocket PC but does run CE.

Give up? A Philips Nino is used as a remote control for the TV screens in the "NATO" building. They added a little thing on it that looks like an antenna, but it is Nino.

[dcharles18]

Remember the Jornada 430se in one of the more recent James Bond's? The device got some pretty good airtime in that movie. That is one of the first that I remember seeing a Pocket PC in.

Wasn't that the one where they used it to diffuse some sort of nuclear bomb? I guess if you can believe Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist, a Jornada diffusing a bomb is comparatively pretty realistic.

I wasn't sure about Tomb Raider, but I do remember the bluetooth headset.

Does anyone remember the commericial where the guy forgot his speech and had his assistant read it to him via video conference over his EM-500 (which he was holding upside down)?

[Dave Conger]

Wasn't that the one where they used it to diffuse some sort of nuclear bomb? I guess if you can believe Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist, a Jornada diffusing a bomb is comparatively pretty realistic.

Yeah, it was the World Is Not Enough. She also had it on a belt clip when we first meet here and then it is used to difuse the bomb in the pipeline.

[pixelator]

Charlie's Angels and the recent Eight Legged Freaks also feature Pocket PC's - namely the Cassiopeias (probably for their bright screens that read better on film).

With the new 3900 series iPAQ's superbright transreflective LCD, you might start seeing more of those.

b