Post some interesting devices which never took off but deserve some recognition.
I always wanted a N93 so bad. 16 year old me thought OMG IT LOOKS LIEK A TINY LAPTOP
I just want my damn Android flip phone, dammit.
FUCK YOU STEVEN ELOP
The Modbook Pro. Current ones cost a fortune because of it.
N950
This form factor was sexy as fuck as well. 21:9 ratio.
>>52123278
>Modbook Pro
Came close to buying that but 2009 financial crisis fucked with my money.
>>52123192
this plz.
But with qwerty.
I'd still buy an old BB Style today if it was available for GSM networks, even with its outdated OS and old hardware.
>>52123236
Steven Elop is literally Satan reincarnated
>>52123152
>>52123236
>>52123291
Why did nokia fail? Symbian?
>>52123830
Nokia failed because they got infiltrated by one of Microsoft's corporate spies
>>52123510
i would have loved to get that, but fuck being a sprint exclusive and having no GSM counterpart
>>52123830
no elop, he was an ex-microsoft employee, who got the job as nokia's CEO and then sold the company to microsoft, he royally fucked nokia and didn't even the common decency to lube up first.
>>52123510
I just want a god damn Blackberry Classic style Android phone.
FUCK YOU ELOP
Too bad this tech is dead.
More of a toy than tech but I still loved mine. Would've been cool if I knew anyone else with one though.
i wish nokia didn't rush symbian S60v5 and caused a huge cluster fuck, but that is the time when they should have tried to develop a proper touch version of symbian or adopted android .
>>52124062
I had two of these. I tried to buy an updated Extreme model when they were on close out, but every single one of them was defective.
>>52124062
Damn, how ugly is this 90s melted plastic style.
>>52123979
Minidisc is so fucking cool and I'm still upset it's dead
>tfw no blu ray mini disc
>>52124150
>no finger prints on data surface ever
>no scratches
>don't need to store them on a spindle
>don't need to worry about fragile jewel cases
>can stack them up without worrying about them
A BD mini disc would be awesome. I'd love to have a mini disc drive with M Discs for permanent data archiving.
>>52123291
damn thats sexy. Why did physical keyboards fail so hard?
I would love a thin iphone with a physical keyboard
>>52124236
> ten times more expensive to produce
This one reason is why there will never ever be minidiscs any more.
And actually hdds are now fucking cheap and incomparably faster and more convenient to use.
>>52123978
>>52123921
>>52123866
>>52123830
Let's adopt Android and sell trillion of devices!
Googleshill pls
UMPC gave birth to the modern smartphone.
We now have a good compromise between features and ease of use.
>>52124150
>>52124367
>>52123979
>the sound of loading a MD into the player
>>52123927
They might allow you to downgrade the OS to android later on (there were some tests with android for Passport but nothing official) - but why would anyone want to do this?
>>52124448
I'm using Sailfish.
Your move.
>>52124673
I like clean Android + Fdroid
>>52123830
>Why did nokia fail? Symbian?
Elop.
>>52124448
>Q1 2009
>that graph
God damn I'm old.
>>52124736
The only reason to ever choose android over BB10 is when you need some apps that rely on google services. If you don't use google play then I don't get it even more.
I'm surprised internet radios aren't found in every house given how crappy DAB Is in UK.
I quite like the idea of camera-centric phones like this monstrosity. 10x zoom!
Just bought one of these and a Chromecast Audio and loving it. Sounds awesome in my medium sized bedroom.
>>52123830
Apple iPhones are just simply the superior product.
>>52123192
You can find a Chinese one, but they're kinda big
>>52123102
Used this bad boy all through college for taking notes
>>52123192
LG Wine Smart
>>52124769
Or apps that require root to run properly.
I miss pocketPCs.
Sure, phones work the same, but no one wants you to use it.
>>52124341
Physical keyboard? You don't want that goy, that's for old people! The touchscreen is newer and therefore better. Just ignore anything you hear about them being cheaper and easier to manufacture, that has nothing to do with us forci- I mean, encouraging you to buy one.
Now that its possible to have 5mm phones and bendable components, I hope they bring qwerty and flip phones back.
>>52129325
Would've happened years ago, but everybody's waiting for Apple to do it first
>>52129376
but Apple already did that :^)
>>52124341
Keycaps + hinge for the two halves = lots of parts and more possible points of failure
Fixed keyboard means you need to keep an inventory of multiple keyboards for the different markets you hope to sell the device in. Worse if any of them have a different shape to the keys.
All for a device you're hoping people will upgrade from to your new device in a year or two.
>>52123830
dithered on maemo and hired elop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmIgNfp-MdI
>>52129796
Don't remind me. It could have prevented all this Apple shit.
>>52129822
We could be fucking living on the moon by now if that had come to the market
>>52129219
>Sure, phones work the same
I hate using phones for most of the stuff I'd use a PocketPC or Palm device for desu
>shitty UI design everywhere, not even the "it's the 2000s and mobile displays have color now!" novelty design that was so awful it was endearing, just straight up half-assed shit that makes it obvious it's just a cheap money grab written by hipsters with no idea what they're doing
>everything is a web front-end or overly dependent on the meme cloud, shitty "social" features abound
>everything for free has obnoxious ads for shitty products
>inaccurate, shitty touch interfaces and keyboard-only input methods that take up half of the fucking screen
>afterthought filesystem access
>no expansion capabilities whatsoever
I'm playing around with the idea of grabbing a Tungsten T3 or some high-end PocketPC, I tried DDing a Tungsten E2 a while back and it wasn't a bad experience at all
>>52130102
I don't mind most of what you said but the half-assed file system is annoying.
>>52123291
Why can't there be another phone like this?
>>52130225
Smartphones just treat you like a retard I guess. Lots of old PDAs and early smartphones treated you more like a professional, they were oriented more towards improving your life instead of plastering it all over the internet, they weren't trying to pander to people who base their sense of self worth on how many meaningless trends their plastic abides by.
Sure, there's a little nostalgia google bullshit talking there, but honestly, I don't really care anymore. There's something about the "feel" of modern smartphone operating systems that just really put me off.
>>52130476
>nostalgia google
I'm clearly in way over my head, here. I'll just fuck off now.
>>52124062
Holy shit, these were amazing. Me and my neighbour use to sext on these.
>>52130102
>>52130225
I got one of the later arm based palm pilots for Christmas and plan on trying to put linux on it. I've cross compiled linux before (and it looks like I'll have to here since all the binaries for /everything/ where hosted on people's home servers that went down years ago).
Does anyone have any advice?
>>52129179
What was it like being gay before it was cool to be gay?
>>52129179
go to bed Phillip
>>52129179
I hate Apple stuff as much as the next guy, but I wanted a Newton so bad back in the day.
>>52123979
I got a minidisc player back when hard drive MP3 players were still expensive, and flash-based players topped out at 512 MB. The prospect of having upwards of 5 hours of music on a $1.50 reusable was very appealing. And it ran seemingly forever on a single AA battery. If it weren't for the beyond full-retard software, I might still use it to this day.
>>52132424
Isn't this also an android tablet? or is that another device?
>>52130530
did you try using the wayback machine to get the binaries? if it's for palm devices they probably have the software archived as long as it's under 2 or so MB in size
I rather enjoy raw Palm OS, lots of great freeware applications. I'm thinking of using one with a folding keyboard for an ARM assembly course I'm going to be taking next semester.
![hqdefault[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/elYDA2S.jpg "hqdefault[1].jpg")
>>52132450
There was a dual screen android phone a few years ago, heard it sucked though
Those meme devices were interesting and all, but honestly touch typing had grown in me and CM13 with F-Droid software and no Gapps feels great.
I wouldn't mind having a hardware keyboard and desktop Linux in my pocket, but it's not utilitarian and not quite comfy to use with one hand.
If you're that much if a hacker and WiFi-cracker cyberpunk goth, get a small laptop with a real full-size keyboard instead of a gimmicky phone.
>>52129477
>Keycaps + hinge for the two halves = lots of parts and more possible points of failure
I've had two phones with slide keyboards and literally everything else broke on them before the keyboard.
>>52123830
It's failed way before they sold it to microsoft. Neither symbian or winphone couldn't compete with the popularity of android and ios.
>>52129179
i got given one of those by my school as i was in special classes.
>>52123830
First they fell behind the development when the rest of the industry followed iphone's example.
Then when they were about to catch up, elop came.
The media went full retard here in Finland
>what Finland needs to develop are leaders from other countries, because Finland doesn't have good leaders
>Finland needs to internationalize their companies
>elop will lead Nokia to new heights
>Microsoft will lead Nokia to new heights
>Nokia will become the third largest phone manufacturer instead of the second largest, which is great because the market for shit phones is so big
>Nokia will surely survive by selling map and gps services. Finland is the leader in digital maps technology!
It was both fun and sad to see happen.
Too bad that Sony won't pay their employees enough to love/support the products they create.
>>52133387
I didn't even think of the wayback machine! Thanks!
>>52123192
I'm currently using a lenovo A588T and it is quite nice
>>52124236
Cartridged optical media is the best technology
It's a shame flash memory is cheaper
>>52130476
It's fucking retarded how you need to root android to have sd card write access
You can do it at a computer, why not on the phone?
Best phone keyboard/trackball experience I've had.
>>52132424
thats fucking beautiful
>>52123192
This never failed because it hasn't hit the market yet
>>52130102
You'll laugh at me for saying this but the primary reason palmpilots and the like never took off is because their UX sucked in a lot of ways, particularly if the user wasn't technically inclined, and they were terrible at handling any kind of visual content (web, documents, books, etc).
A big success factor that people don't cite when speaking of the rise of the iPhone and smartphones was how these devices handled the web. They were really the first instance of any sort of hand-held web browser that wasn't a miserable joke, and as it turns out, people liked that.
On the upside, thanks to the prevalence of smartphones handheld mobile tech has improved quite dramatically. If someone tried creating a modern PalmPilot/Treo, they could a hell of a lot better job than anybody prior to 2007 could have even imagined. We now have super-efficient ARM SoCs that challenge Core 2 Duos, beautiful screens, and tiny, ultra-efficient wireless chipsets. All the pieces are there.
>>52141185
Underrated post
>>52138164
Had one of those, was a pretty great camera
>>52130102
If I lose or break my phone I'm probably going to replace it with a Newton MessagePad
>>52141185
top level alternative posting here
muh moon races
kek
>>52138738
I still have mine.
I had like one of those special coloured supporter/backer versions of the console, that you got from donating to the project on Kickstarter or wherever it was (I don't remember), however I sold it off and bought a Samsung Galaxy SII to replace my broken Nexus One.
>>52138738
I still have mine with a custom ROM somewhere around. The screen is slightly cracked, and some of the back is peeled off, due to daily use in somewhat questionable conditions (I remember I had it with me while I was hiking on a mountain in Germany, good times) but it was really neat.
I had the developer's edition with those neat patterns and the little Android on the back, it's kinda cute.
>>52141185
They definitely took off.
Some just never landed.
>>52141185
I still think the space shuttle program was really neat
It's too bad that hitching a ride with Russia is cheaper
>>52140810
I don't really disagree with that at all actually. Web browsing was something of an afterthought on those when you think about it, they were always optimized more for offline personal organization jobs.
Palm OS' UI isn't too technical though if you ask me, it's quite like modern smartphones, just made with a stylus in mind rather than touch.
>>52140810
Considering there's been over 40 models made by Palm (and much more made by other makers,) they most definitely did "take off." Its eventual downfall ironically was what made it initially great.
Everyone was trying to cram a full computer into a handheld touch screen device, resulting in a technically capable, but overall shitty device. Palm said fuck that, we're stripping this down to perform a handful of core functions, and perform them extremely well.
Problem came in that over time, technology got to where you really could cram a full computer into a handheld device that ran pretty well.
One thing I never really got though is for a device that's imagined around a notepad motif, it did not come with a doodling application. You'd think that would be an obvious thing to inlclude. Unless they were worried people would forego Graffiti and just write their notes directly.
dumping some of my photos
>>52145580
What is this?
>>52143026
They've been bought by Razer and they are relaunching the ouya, if you didn't know.
>>52145803
I think it's one of the Pandoras.
They're also having a new incarnation called Pyra,
>>52145580
I kind of wanted one of those.
>>52145536
>it did not come with a doodling application.
Palm OS 5 features one, the screen resolution is too low to use it effectively over graffiti, even on a modern device it would probably still be just plain awful.
>>52145580
Gorgeous
Colour me jelly
Still the best Controller for people with big hands
>>52146996
How the fuck did the Gamecube "not take off"? And people talk about that fucking controller constantly, usually in the context of Smash Bros.
>>52147042
Not really on the PC, which is what I use to play my games.
>>52146604
>They're also having a new incarnation called Pyra
More like that delusional German faggot wanks himself to the impossibility of it ever being real. They have no capital to mass produce and the Pandora was such a clusterfuck that no one in their right mind would buy from those twats anyhow (besides retro fags who are too dumb to just emulate on a normal computer like everyone else).
>>52123102
Literally a steaming pile of shit.
>>52147042
I have no idea. They were tough, they were super portable, their discs took up less space, and devs were able to squeeze amazing graphics out its little 400Mhz PPC G3. I was always amazed at how much better the GC version of RE4 looked than its PS2 and PC counterparts for example.
IMO it was a far more practical console than the Xbox ever was. I still think had Microsoft not slurped up Bungie and changed Halo from being a Mac game (like all Bungie stuff preceding) to being MS-exclusive, the Xbox would've flopped hard and Microsoft would still be a boring office software company today.
>>52129850
*tips fedora*
>>52147364
I wasn't saying "how is it that the Gamcube wasn't successful?," I'm saying that the Gamecube was successful and the anon posting the GC controller in a thread about technology that "didn't take off" is wrong.
The GC wasn't nearly as popular as the PS2 and even lost out to the Xbox in a lot of places, but it was still very successful and very well-known.
>>52143923
Not cheaper, safer. Space shuttle is the most dangerous space vehicle so far, not even the Soviets could come up with anything that created more body counts.
>>52147042
No dvd player
You couldn't pirate the games
>>52138164
I heard real estate people love this thing, why?
>>52126940
What brand and model is that?
>>52147329
>he doesn't appreciate super-portable x86 computers
>>52123152
My first phone was a samsung alias which was pretty much this but with a full sized keyboard
Actually was a pretty good phone. Shame flip smartphones aren't really a thing outside of asian countries
I had one of these and made the fucking horrible mistake of plugging a usb hub into it and watching it smoke out and die. I WILL waste my god damn money to buy another one if I can find one again. Rollercoaster tycoon was the SHIT on this little dude. and for a few weeks it was my substitute phone which worked pretty good
>>52147042
3rd party support wasn't great cause of lower capacity discs along with less buttons on the controller
>>52123102
>>52138694
i had this thing. took crappy pics, video was eh/crappy, but mp3 player was alright. used those large compact flash cards; i had a couple 64mb ones.
the little screen was not backlit but it at least lasted a decent amount of time on batteries and could take quick pics/vids.
i was one happy kid when i got it back then though, was fun to use
>>52148231
>>52148104
great hardware desu
Why hasnt the sidekick style hinge not shown up on any phone? Is it because of patents or something because I don't remember hearing any kind of issues regarding it and the hinge seems to work very well.
>>52145580
wow, actually forgot to dump the pics
>>52148348
>>52141185
Challenger had 9 successful missions. To say that it never took off would be inaccurate.
>>52148367
18650s! Best battery ever!
![Samsung_Galaxy_S6_1000[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ceUCgqB.jpg "Samsung_Galaxy_S6_1000[1].jpg")
>>52148392
It's pretty good
>>52148473
>>52148473
>That small right shift key
My autism
>>52148538
Yeah, was a dealbreaker for me. Sold it the other day for like 30€.
>>52124128
Looks kewl to me...at least it's not the same shit over and over again. It's got personality.
>>52137194
I thought about getting one. But the fact that it doesn't support US 3g, and US 2g is getting the kill on my carrier in 2 years doesn't make it a good idea for a replacement phone.
>>52124485
Oh yeah? Then where the fuck are the keyboards?
>>52129179
Was thinking about getting one. How do you transfer the notes off it, and say to another computer? Is that possible?
>muh DoF
I guess they took off okay, but promptly crashed back into the ground
>>52138164
The problem with that is what if I want to make a copy of my home movie with a floppy disk
>>52138164
My grandma used one of those things forever until we got her a smartphone.
>>52148673
The 300 included IR, serial, and a PCMCIA slot that could take all kinds of network/storage cards
>>52145580
They're making a successor to this which has an ARM cortex (and runs linux). Sorta interested in how it goes. Might be a cool pickup if it isn't fucked.
For the curious the device in the picture is a dragonbox pandora.
https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/
>>52148800
>dragonbox
When they first created the Pandora Handheld ("OpenPandora") there was no such thing as DragonBox. However, EvilDragon is a cool guy and I'm going to buy the Pyra, no matter what.
>>52140810
>PalmPilots
>Never took off
PalmPiloots were pretty huge back in the late 90s/early 00s among business-types.
>>52148812
You're late.
At least read the thread before posting.
>>52148104
>>52138738
I would kill for a decent Android phone with a trackball and keyboard
>>52148999
ps keitais are gay as fuck
>>52148999
dat fucking mouse.
>>52149025
Say that to my face and not on the internet and see what happens
>>52148473
>Digimon
>Pokemon Crystal
You're living the dream, anon <3
>>52141241
Hahahahaha, what a completely fucking stupid idea. I can just picture a massive warehouse full of these things.
>>52149023
Why do you have a condom?
>>52149196
He doesn't, he has the package cant you see?
>>52148686
lol at the text in Pokemon having too few pixels/ being at the wrong aspect ratio that it looks like fucking Arabic. Rockbox is seriously amazing, though. I wish that there was a build for my Walkman.
Sansa Clip wasn't a failure at all, though; it was extremely successful and has had many more iterations like the Zip and Sport. They still hold their price really well on sites like Amazon, too.
>>52149208
Where did the rubber go then?
>>52149196
Too lie on the internet
>>52149211
>looks like fucking Arabic
It is Japanese however.
>>52149226
That my friend, is something that we may never find out.
>>52148819
I think I want one too.
>>52148382
Even then, it still achieved liftoff before being torn apart.
Still fuckin sad though. I wish the american people would stop being pussies and fund space exploration again.
>>52149227
Jesus Christ man your keyboard
>>52146996
I like the DS3 a lot better compared to the game cube controller
It also feels cheap since it's so light
This thread is making me nostalgic, pissed that none of these caught on more and hopeful for more new weird shit at the same time.
>>52148392
love 18650s!
>>52137194
I just ordered one and I'm pretty hype. is 2g bearable?
>>52148823
True as that may be, things that are mostly restricted to the business sector tend to not have much staying power. You've gotta get in on the consumer market if you want to last.
>>52144681
>just give me a nexus 6P sized webOS device that can dual boot marshmallow.
I'd honestly be set for life.
>>52148673
It's possible yeah. I used a custom serial to USB cable I rigged up iirc. There's mediocre programs for Linux to do it, I remember using NCX for OSX most of the time though. I also remember the notes not always translating well when you used the drawing features of the note app. Text and basic formatting worked fine though.
>>52148776
Heh yeah. I remember getting my messagepad on the net with a PCMCIA wireless card and some hacked driver packages. Was a huuuuuge pain in the ass just to be able to load some shitty tiny websites. Still felt cool to have an old machine like that that wasn't designed to get on the modern web, least of all through WiFi, chugging along doing its thing.
>>52148819
>>52145580
I still want a Pandora.
>>52148367
phone looks neat, didn't think i would like white backing with back screen.
good choice mate, charger too is neat too
>$20 new in box
>originally meant to be a AIM/etc chat client for poor teenagers who couldn't afford a phone and plan to sit in places with public wifi also mp3 player
>700mhz arm
>battery
>backlit keyboard
>320 x 200
>wireless lan card
>SD card slot able to boot linux
>capable of running emulators and dosbox
>can mod to have USB
>>52153112
That's fucking awesome
>>52124448
"Burning Platform" was early 2011. Elop picked the wrong fucking platform, ruined Nokia, and sold it to Microsoft instead of adapting Android like every other fucking smartphone maker. NOBODY else was Windows phone exclusive, and it sunk Nokia.
Burning platform? You're still standing on one, Microsoft/Nokia. Burned plenty of bridges with consumers on the way there though.
>I actually bought one
It made a pretty good handheld emulator once it was cracked.
Nowhere near the PSP, but that was expensive.
>aqua knockoff UI
man that shit was everywhere for a while
>>52146996
Most comfortable controller ever
>>52147495
This more than anything else.
>>52130102
>everything for free has obnoxious ads for shitty products
This is what saddens me the most abouy modern mobile devices. I had a ton of fun little games and useful programs for Palm, almost all of it was free, and absolutely none of it had A(I)DS. People then actually cared about having something useful and/or fun. Today's devices are little more than handheld billboards.
>>52153650
but senpai, if you're not a tech illiterate normie you can easily block the ads, and have an xposed module that removes the ad elements so there's no wasted space.
>>52137512
Viruses.
>>52145580
God, I remember when these were first being hyped.
I wanted one so much it hurt.
Then I got a PSP for Emulation and that need sorta died off.
>>52123102
man, even now i still want one of these. too bad they're still expensive as fuck.
i learned something about the vaio p the other day. it doesn't use a sata connector, it uses ide, which is extremely strange considering that by the time the vaio p was released, sata was quite common and was out for 7 or 8 years already. such a shitty decision by sony.
>>52147104
>besides retro fags who are too dumb to just emulate on a normal computer like everyone else
Retrofags buy this for the UMPC feel, not to replace their PC to emulate games.
6/10 made me reply.
sony xperia play phone.
Happend way to early in the android life cycle, doublt we'll see another one.
>>52123291
I cry everitym. My N9 was by far the best phone I ever had. Only problem I had was that the sound level was rather low and that the GPS stopped working after two years or so.
>>52147773
Apple iPod Hifi. Otherwise known as the A1121.
>>52126940
>>52147773
Release Feb -06 and discontinued Sept -07.
Sold for like $399 and aimed at "audiophiles".
It really fills the room but obv can't replace a stereo because of the speaker distance.
>>52126940
Why Apple stopped making that speaker? It looks awesome. Does it sound good?
>>52155359
I had one and the Super Nintendo Emulator worked treat on it.
Needed more software support though; I don't think I even used those stick/pad things once...
>>52123236
My host-dad ehile I was in finland had one of these. It was really a nice phone.
>>52123102
>2002/2003
I'll never forgive Microsoft for having discontinued their pocketpcs and having turned their mobile OS to shit.
>>52146567
just like razer relaunched game booster
another thing to fail again
>>52146996
i had small hands and used to love it
>>52156206
If Google had required Android branded phones to come with root access and unlocked bootloaders instead of the opposite, it would be a worthy successor to WinMo6.
>>52146996
>>52147042
Gc controllers took off so well they started making them again when smash 4 hit
>>52156206
Still got one
>>52155359
we got a nvidia shield, that
>>52148473
THAT IS FUCKING USEFUL
I want one desu :(
>>52156365
Yeah me too
>>52156206
I have an HTC Wizard that runs Windows Mobile 5.0 and feel the same way about what they did to the software afterwards.
>>52156030
Sounds great. It was made to compete with Bose sounddocks.
I have a Chromecast Audio with an optical connection between. Thinking about getting an old iPod Nano to chuck in because it's easier to play music on that than Chromecast.
>>52156376
There are plenty of Android tablets with controllers, phones are a different story.
>>52133431
Oh boy did it suck. Still have mine kicking around somewhere.
Basically, they screwed two phones, each with their own processor, together to create the illusion. Then, they used to fold together in a way where they were just stacked. Not clamshell, but actually stacked.
Then, the "two apps at one time" thing was of course limited to only 10 apps. Luckily youtube and messenger were included, but onlybthe shitty stock email client.
Furthermore, these individual phones were underpowered, and the overall unit suffered the delay of communication/synchronization between the two. Not a fun experience.
You also have that extended monitor issue. Would the app run on one large, virtual screen where the seam is like a window frame that cuts off content? Or will the screen disorient you by pushinc content to eother side of the seam, cutting content in half. Will the weird double screen resolution work eith the app display resolution?
This can only be known by trial and error. Guess how many developers decided to support this device?
I had one of those in high school back in the days. It was amazing! The only problem was the heat which was resulting in reboot once in a while. Annndd the weight. Yet as my first tablet/multimedia player this was amazing! I really liked the how simple the interface was and how solid the build was. I do remember that i was downloading porn directly from the webplayer with no prob. The screen was so bright and colorful. Mine burn after 1year but it was worth. 10/10
>>52158635
Oh fuck forgot the pic
>>52158651
>>52158635
Archos has some cool shit. Blew my mind when I was rocking a tablet with a 250GB HDD back in 2011
iomega jaz drive, 2 GB of portable storage at a time when most ppl had 8 GB of storage in their HDDs.
Some guy who worked at Sony one showed me what looked like an ordinary USB stick. It was an USB stick + a small camera to take pictures.
But it didn't even get released, it was just a prototype and they thought it wouldn't sell.
>>52158680
I don't know about their stuff right now but their old stuff was legendary. I got an ipod touch with the same capacity 64gbit) even if it was quite nice i still missed my archos for the quality of it. It doesn't need shitty apps n stuff on it.
>>52159532
Mayve they thought it'd be bad press when japs would eventually start using it for panty shots
>>52123102
I always. always. wanted one of these as a kid.
>>52126652
>given how crappy DAB Is in UK.
as in actual signal? It's fine mate
There aren't that many channels though
>tfw you will never have this with ips panels
>>52123102
:c i cri
>>52148999
Whats that white stylus thing that you like having in your shot? Is that that thing people spin?
>>52160249
It's tragic that SEGA is just a pachinko machine company now
>>52123102
>the only usable EMP protected data medium made by humans
imagine your yaoi sh0ta collection still viewable after the nuclear holocaust
best mobile PC ever made
>>52160465
n-no what makes you say that?
>>52157272
Nvidia shield portable mate
>>52160530
>not the viliv n5
>not the umid mbook
Those things were literally "pocket pcs" (running Atom x86)
>>52160581
>>52160581
Just google it, that's worse than I thought. It's fucking massive.
>>52129796
Why was that not a thing?
Also didn't sony show that they were also working in a dual screen tablet kind of thing?
surprised it hasn't been posted yet
>>52123921
>who got the job as nokia's CEO and then sold the company to microsoft, he royally fucked nokia
Sure, if you ignore reality and pretend Symbian hadn't went down like the fucking Hindenburg. He sold a flailing company whose strongest asset was their brand, and he did it for a solid block of hard cash. And that was on top of the promise that they'd get the Nokia trademark for Smartphones back down the line. I don't think you get how good a deal that was.
RIM/Blackberry _wish_ they could have gotten that sort of hail Mary. A lot of companies wish they could be in a position to say "Our platform and core offering went from 50% of the market to less than 5% in two years, let's cash out and buy Alcatel fucking Lucent".
>>52160606
HTC shift x9500 is also running an x86 CPU - Intel Stealey A110. Fully x86 compatible CPU with GMA950 gpu
UMPCs
>>52160822
some of those HTC devices did run a core solo.
>>52160806
this post sunshine>>52124078
also nokia' infrastructure business is huge and didn't experience the problems of their cell phone division, as they still power most of the worlds telecommunications backbone
No HP Touchpad and Pre 3 on the list? I'm surprised.
Amazing OS, amazing devices. Got impressed by the idea of integration between those two devices. Touching FRONT (not back, another unique thing) of the tablet with phone - exchanging data, eg. current website.
Anyway, I loved that OS. However, without apps and popularity the OS is easily forgotten.
Shit, this made me cry a little.
>>52160576
Well, what is it.
>>52160576
Damn, that's autism incarnate.
>>52159549
>implying that wasn't its intended use
>>52160249
It was criminal the power the Dreamcast had when put against anything else at the time and yet still failed.
>60hz ha ha what is that
>Internet enabled multiplayer, who needs that?
>Bah Shenmue, flop of the century, no one will care about that shit in fifteen years time......right?
>>52160530
Seeing these tiny pc make me wish Microsoft would just make a phone that can run normal windows, even if it is the size of a note 5 I would buy it instantly.
>>52162867
Same. Or at least a company that can release such a device.
>>52160530
How about the Surface Tablets? There pretty good right?
>>52163687
Yeh if they were half the price.
>>52130509
Did he finally get arrested for being a pedo?
>>52153112
Traded mine away. Not sure if I should have kept it. If was a fun little box.
![Sega_GameGear_003[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/0gOvlUz.jpg "Sega_GameGear_003[1].jpg")
>>52123830
Symbian was a definite dead end. But their Linux based OS was starting to see potential.
The worst part is adopting Windows phone so early, i mean, win mob 7 was a mess.
>>52155359
doesn't help it looked like an incomplete device without markers of where the analog touch parats were
also lack of software selection
Lads, I have the possibility to acquire one of these
>>52123236
>>52123291
What is the coolest thing I could do with it?
>>52123192
>>52137194
Aren't android flip phones fairly popular in ching chong nip nong regions?
There's 2 LG-brand ones, a whole line of Samsung ones, and two by Sharp.
>tfw I'm probably the only one who remembers of the existence of this thing
>>52166880
If you want to count software, BlackBerry 10 OS in general
>>52149196
boiled a sausage for his anis, couldn't take it raw bcz AIDS and stuff
>>52148723
Cameras back then were specialized, it either did video, or still images. Are you 12 or something?
