Microsoft turning PPC's into just PC?

BigDiesel07 · #1 (**permalink**) 01-29-2009, 05:21 PM

Here is an interesting article about a patent Microsoft recently applied for... It details turning a phone into a full-fledged computer?

psiphi · #2 (**permalink**) 01-30-2009, 10:46 AM

Makes sense they way things are going, especially the way size and cost of laptops keep coming down... Did you see the unveiling of the $10 laptop is happing Feb. 3rd?

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/I...ow/4049914.cms

Here's hoping the economics times don't hurt tech innovation...

BigDiesel07 · #3 (**permalink**) 01-30-2009, 10:58 AM

Your right PSI... Hopefully it will come to fruitition...

demonlordoftheround · #4 (**permalink**) 01-30-2009, 01:46 PM

Laptops and PPCs are generally starting to become very similar in hardware and software. Cheap MIDs are starting to use the same processors and software as PPCs.

**lawmangrant** · #5 (**permalink**) 01-30-2009, 09:47 PM

While this seems possible...I just could not work on my Touch like I could on my laptop.

I know, my career field (law enforcement - yes, I'm the Fuzz), they are talks of going away from the laptop in the car, to a WM device....
I just do not think it would work for any intensive task.

BigDiesel07 · #6 (**permalink**) 01-30-2009, 09:58 PM

The biggest issue I have with using my Touch Pro over a PC is the screen size and lack of mouse..

**schettj** · #7 (**permalink**) 01-30-2009, 10:02 PM

Hey, they've already got laptop-like battery life with the Touch Pro (lol)

DJx79x · #8 (**permalink**) 01-30-2009, 10:08 PM

well like the phone that i have (the saga) and the epix and omnia they have optical mouses and they work great its only a matter of time before they perfect them and add them to htc devices

**syrguy1969** · #9 (**permalink**) 02-01-2009, 09:46 PM

I can see the laptop/PPC union being quite easy and no too far off. I have been reading the articles about the flexible/fold-able screens, there is already a projector PPC out there. BT virtual keyboards.....the list goes on.

So in the next few years why can't there be a PPC with a fold-out 13" screen, a virtual BT keyboard? Or the projection screen idea?

A quickie though...something like Palm's failed folio..a basically blank tablet of a laptop that runs while synced with the PPC (basically a larger screen/keyboard extension of the PPC) or with a plug to pop the PPC into to run the laptop 'shell'.

The future isn't that far off!!!

jadesse · #10 (**permalink**) 02-01-2009, 10:08 PM

Look at the HTC Advantage & shift. Now granted niether is exactly cheap.