Comments on: A whole new meaning to your “flexible friend” http://www.3dmarcomms.com/blog/2009/01/epaper/ 3D MarComms blog - Recruitment & Marketing Communications, Digital Developments & a bit of life thrown in Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:46:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: 3D MarComms » Enough to Kindle a new interest in e-books? http://www.3dmarcomms.com/blog/2009/01/epaper/comment-page-1/#comment-89 3D MarComms » Enough to Kindle a new interest in e-books? Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:55:06 +0000 http://www.3dmarcomms.com/blog/?p=62#comment-89 [...] Tony McNulty on A whole new meaning to your “flexible friend” [...] [...] Tony McNulty on A whole new meaning to your “flexible friend” [...]

]]> By: Tony McNulty http://www.3dmarcomms.com/blog/2009/01/epaper/comment-page-1/#comment-56 Tony McNulty Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:23:03 +0000 http://www.3dmarcomms.com/blog/?p=62#comment-56 This is the really clever stuff that I can't wait to hit the markets. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aNO19PoQOI0 As someone who reads books/newspapers/feeds/emails/etc on mobile devices, I'd be thrilled to own a device like that. Nice and small form factor, screen rolling out to A5 size. Put some wifi/3g access on there with an open development platform and you got a winner. I think perhaps one of the problems with devices launches so far, or planned to launch, is that they're all suited for specific narrow purposes. Look at the Kindle book reader from Amazon for example. You can read books and listen to music, and do some very basic web browsing. It's only a few steps from being a lovely rich-media device, but its low processing power and cheap construction turn it into a heavier version of a book. What the market (us geeks for now, but the rest of you eventually!) really wants is a glossy, sexy, portable (flexibly unrollable, but firm-when-extended-for-iphone-style-interaction) multipurpose, hi-resolution screen. Let me take it out my pocket and do some google mapping, book reading, newspaper browsing, youtube watching fun. This is the really clever stuff that I can’t wait to hit the markets.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aNO19PoQOI0

As someone who reads books/newspapers/feeds/emails/etc on mobile devices, I’d be thrilled to own a device like that. Nice and small form factor, screen rolling out to A5 size. Put some wifi/3g access on there with an open development platform and you got a winner.

I think perhaps one of the problems with devices launches so far, or planned to launch, is that they’re all suited for specific narrow purposes. Look at the Kindle book reader from Amazon for example. You can read books and listen to music, and do some very basic web browsing. It’s only a few steps from being a lovely rich-media device, but its low processing power and cheap construction turn it into a heavier version of a book.

What the market (us geeks for now, but the rest of you eventually!) really wants is a glossy, sexy, portable (flexibly unrollable, but firm-when-extended-for-iphone-style-interaction) multipurpose, hi-resolution screen. Let me take it out my pocket and do some google mapping, book reading, newspaper browsing, youtube watching fun.

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