If judged only on cell phones, we've been living in the third millennium (although some other indicators of hanging out in the late Middle Ages). Look around. Take a look at passers-by. This is what is happening, my mother dear! Work comes from the night shift - at the waist cell phone. The old woman moved to the dairy shop - string bags of peeps mobile. Many children milf walks noisy family - herself while gossiping with a girlfriend on the phone. Hooligan "pionery" rush like a madman - in their hands stained cell phones ... That's "pionerah" and we'll talk. Not for everyone there, "raving together" (talk about them - just imagine the brains powder), and the younger generation in general. More precisely, a special phone for the young user. Produced the same and such. That is not quite available yet (and it is not clear - whether or not produced at all). But first things first ...
Eaten, darling, sweetie
An attempt to release the equipment exclusively for any one age group of consumers a dangerous thing. Of the successful projects (in the "high tech"), you can remember except that SMS-LIMITED "nedokommunikator" Motorola V100. Everything else - the projects known to fail. Take, for example, once actively promoted children's graphics tablets. Remember, these were toys - bright, lurid, intended for users of primary school age? Calculation of producer (and these plates are produced by anyone who is not lazy), was the fact that dityate priglyanetsya pink-orange plaque on his desk. And he, this young hooligan, will sit for hours behind a computer at home, painting by tablet unthinkable scribble. But the producers were wrong (or have never had children). Should not be kept small for the user a complete idiot. Both he and his parents, we must first properly working machinery - functional, reliable, convenient. Bright coloring? After the ubiquitous marmalade style a la iMac "to create something brighter (and gaudy) is very difficult ... and children's plates did not. But the adults have gone plates on which to draw and a pink house with a green pipe, and a pen-foot-ogurechik, and architectural diagrams for the thesis. On the other hand, some toys suddenly become a bit of work tools, is clearly contrary to the idea of designers. Example - electron microscope from Intel, which already seems to be no longer available (available - other manufacturers), but here and there, in Moscow and the Russian hinterland, for sale. Microscope that is essentially the attached video camera with an increase from 100 to 400 times. With good optics, an acceptable resolution with a convenient object table with stable performance, high-quality software support. Over a hundred dollars with a small (depending on the model of price jumps up to 450) than non-microscope agronomist, a veterinarian, doctor? It all began with toys for inquisitive teenager ... However, this is an isolated example. In most cases, a competitive tournament wins universal technique. Do not become the same every time reconnect the same tablet, replacing a home PC its offspring play too? And what would then have to buy "smart" things - computer, VCR, CD player, all in two versions - for adults and children?
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| Cybico Communicator |
That's when it comes to personal devices that are intended for personal use, a different matter. The same PDA can be an unusual shape, fun, like a toy (for example - Gaming Communicator Cybiko and his older brother Cybiko Xtreme). Or phone ... Yes, a cell phone in this strange category - appliances, toys - gets. In contrast to wired devices, which can come with mom and dad, and grandparents, children's cell phone belongs to the only child in my pocket and that "lives". So let's look at the sweet baby I-Node production Japanese companies InternetNode Inc. Gizmo fun and very attractive. Moreover, not only for the modern teenager, but for anyone who appreciates a portable digital equipment.
When poNODim?
Indeed, when? I purposely put the cart before the horse, trying to understand the prospects of the new device, and then to look at its technical features. On the Web site that yaponoyazychnom that in the English version, on the I-Node is no positive information. Silent, as if partisans ninja. Caught only brief mention vague. (Or am I again not looking there?) Staff presented to the public last spring (March 2002) and briefly described on the websites of mobile communications. And then everything - molchok ... Really, again, a stillborn concept? Or a model designed exclusively for the Asian market? It may well be - most described the news of new products outside of Japan - Korea - China will not come out. Polutoramilliardnoe population (the continent), millions of readers - what more do you want? Plus America, which will absorb and pay for everything. Plus Europe, capricious and conservative woman (although Psion in Europe flourished and flopped it in the States), which is something like it, but something - no ... Where in this list are we? By good to get used immediately. We are already accustomed to the fact that any technical novelty gets to our stores for a few days. And in the case of the Palm m130 account was not even on the days and the hours and minutes - because of the difference in the waist of time ... and long delays, and absolute misses new products on the Russian market became noticeable and very sorrowful. Although at the time of it, we could not dream of any technical refinement, and the pages of glossy magazines looked like the Martian Chronicles - so it was inaccessible and unreal. (Just think - send a VCR cost along with the domestic car!) So should we expect I-Node we have in Russia? Hardly ... Let this sad conclusion is empty hysterics. Let stone me if I would be wrong. (However, the stones can be replaced with roses and lilies, I will not mind).
Small but smart
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| I-Node Smartphone |
So, details about the device I-Node ... To begin with, it's not a phone, a smartphone. More precisely - a full PDA-based operating system MS Windows CE 3.0 (presumably, in her phone edition, Partner code for details). Gizmo is very small, I would even say - tiddly. Its dimensions - 80h48h17 mm, weight 89 grams. Imagine this microscopic little box ... It fit color TFT screen at 2.2 inches diagonally with a resolution of 176x220 pixels, displaying 262,144 colors. Entering information touch - on the unit there is only one navigation button that performs many functions. Then - the processor family StrongARM (for one data standard for Pocket PC 2002 dvuhsotshestimegagertsovoy modification, on the other - the model of the processor is not specified). Memory in 16 or 32 megabytes. Installed a slot for flash memory card format MMC / SD, as a new Palm `s. Battery unexpectedly powerful - Lithium-polymer battery, 1000 mAh, ensuring continuous operation of I-Node in standby for 200 hours in PDA mode for 10 hours. Very good performance. No microphone or speaker in the I-Node no. Can speak only through remote headset. Sound capabilities are also very limited, the recorder in the machine either. But full support GPRS, have an infrared port for wireless connection to your computer and plug the USB to connect to the wired. The most remarkable thing - a range, which runs I-Node. It is "our home" GSM 900/1800. So it's not so bad, and this machine can reach up to us. If it is done, of course ... about software compatibility with the Pocket PC platform speech, of course, is not. And the small screen resolution and hardware features of I-Node that does not help. But if the program filling the communicator will be on the level, the trouble is small.Tamp SMS-ki, browse WAP-page (there is a built-in browser - again, consider the HTML-page on this screen is problematic - two), and finally, in the usual way to talk on the phone - that computerized boy want? Youth positioning device eliminates the problem of using the touch keyboard. The fact that the speed dialing through a virtual keypad is extremely inconvenient. With a normal telephone is operated by one finger - pressing the protruding hardware buttons. And on the I-Node will have stylus, aiming at a tiny picture buttons. In short, nonsense ... But the young user problems, do not feel it. Thing-a stylish and very unusual. And it is so tender age of first case. On the other hand the presence of an alarm clock, phone book, calendar - simple tools for planning personal time - allows you to use I-Node as an electronic organizer. Yes, and a full-fledged handheld computer - to read from the screen device, you can just as with any Pocket PC screen (if you sight allows). Here you have a universal device that may interest the child and adult. Made fun of, do your thing. Japanese, that they take ...
A few words after
Hungarian site TeleBox briefly, two or three sentences, describe the communicator I-Node, and the plate specifications refers to another machine with very similar parameters - from Philips. What is this error colleagues? Or do I clear discord with the Hungarian? Or maybe they know something I do not know yet? (And I, alas, I do not know too much what the publicly confess) ... If "Filippok" does not let you down and release the same toy as the I-Node (or become the OEM manufacturer of a Japanese company? "No, hardly, not a royal deal - change every serve), the situation on the market of cellular communicators (okay, smart phones - the same Bayda, only in profile) is significantly changed. In the sense - the choice will increase by so much, even for technology to advance so much, and our wallets still lose weight on so much. Notice that they did not come up with, and affected by this unfortunate our wallets. And let him suffer. If anything, change them on canvas bags - in what collectors tolerate other people's money. And what I saw in your shop, a new smartphone, pour out of the bag kilo bucks, and you're in the board happy ... until the next new smartphone. The authors, translation:
Nikolai Yakovlev