A man called David has posted two mockups of future Palm devices which are impressive indeed. The first is for the mythical Palm C40 which features a super slim design cleverly split diagonally through the centre. The 4.3″ capacitive screen sells it for me alongside the 1800mAh battery, but alas it is not real.
Next up is the Palm Tablet which is basically a bigger iPad with a Palm logo on the back. Nice try though.
All of this brings back memories of a competition we held on PDA-247 in 2006 when PeeNutt developed a mockup of a LifeDrive II. If Palm had made something like it, things could be very different now.
Pre is now free on all O2 contracts. Either means the C40 is just around the corner or the Pre wasn’t selling? Wonder which…
I like the idea. It’s beautifully done!
“Either means the C40 is just around the corner or the Pre wasn’t selling?”
Not selling is my guess – I haven’t seen a single Pre in the wild and I work in mobility!
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What I desire is a phoneless Android PDA the same length and width as the LifeDrive, but thinner.
Give it more RAM and bigger internal storage. WiFi and Bluetooth of course, plus a full size SDHC slot and a USB host port.
The screen could be higher resolution, bigger and with a higher pixel density by pushing it out further towards the edges of the case.
Camera? Maybe. Make it an option.
It’d much rather have a resistive touch screen than a capacitive one. If it *must* have a capacitive screen then include a stylus that’ll work with it, even when the user’s wearing gloves. If need be, make it an ‘active’ stylus with onboard electronics and a tiny rechargeable li-po battery. The stylus battery could charge from the mains adapter or ‘vampire’ the internal battery when not connected to AC.
Such a battery wouldn’t be anything really new, except for being li-po. Years back some outfit made a combination stylus, ballpoint pen and *laser pointer* with the same diameter as standard Palm styli.
But what market would a no-phone, no-camera Android PDA serve? One would be people who work in secure areas where cellphones and cameras are not allowed.
Another would be geeks like me who just don’t want their phone and PDA in a single device.
Yet another would be education. Such a PDA would be ideal for electronic textbooks. Kids mostly already have their own cellphones, most of them with cameras. No need for schools to be providing either to the students. The kids get into enough trouble with camera phones, sexting with their textbooks would be just more trouble.