Many Gadgets All In One
from the convergence! dept
People keep talking about the convergence of PDAs and cell phones, but here's the first attempt I've seen that actually looks pretty creative. It's call the PC-EPhone and it comes in two pieces. One is the main PDA, which is about as big as a discman (too big). The other is the "pen" part which is bigger than a normal PDA pen and works as the cell phone - which communicates via Bluetooth with the other part (acting as the base). I like the concept of having the two parts, but it's not clear that the two connect in any way, and the base part is definitely too big to be useful. Also, the company distributing it used to be a oil and gas exploration company (?!?!) and they're estimating the price to be around $1500 - which seems a bit pricey to receive any sort of market acceptance. Still, it is good to see people are trying creative ways to solve the convergence problem.
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