arvino’s posterous

 
We live increasingly connected, no doubt about it. And as we live increasingly connected, the internet become more central to our lives. It increasingly become the foundation of our interaction, social and work being.
In such circumstances, tablet form-factor (or slidephone form factor) might increasingly fit well into the new way we act, get connected, and interact.
 
I wish one day I can write, draw and annotate crisply also on it. With these, we got a "Perfect Tablet", where we can do so much things on it, and through it, in the most intuitive, effective, productive way, ever invented.

Is the perfect tablet coming soon?
 
It's portable, it's comfortable for browsing, it's internet connectivity ready, it has a batter that last long.
Add future ability to accept hand-gesture and pen writing on top of it, at $411 price tag, could this Korean-manufactured LLUON Mobbit PS400 be our ideal 'tablet PC' ?
 
 We shall see.

There'd be more and more Linux-based Nokia-smartphones in the market, Nokia says recently.
Linux, Android, ... Nokia , HTC, ...
 
Yikes!, Open Computing start getting real traction in the mobile market! 'everywhere' !! :-)

I seriously wonder why Palm is not making the 'modern' version of this device.
This is almost a perfect 'tablet' device we ever had. It's sleek, it's thin, it's pocketable, it's portable.
Even iPhone-- in many ways -- resembles what this device (once) had! -- in its design, simplicity, sleekness, hardware elegance, and software standout!
 
Perhaps palm just need to make it work 'like a piece of paper' even more, incorporate it's 'handspring-root' too make it phone-enable, and forget those cluncky complicated Windows Mobile interface all out! ...

Then we got our 'perfect palm' handheld (or 'tablet' ??) back.

Imagine what'd be possible to be done once this kind of tablet device appear in the marketplace:
 
- Presentation could be done fully persuasive and interactive -- we can draw on our slides, no longer just 'stare' on it. :-)
- Jot down on a note or on a glimpse of idea is a snap! -- no separate (physical) paper is required.
- Everything can be annotated -- which enable people to discuss, share and interact around digital document or digital files even more intuitive and even better than before.
 
Even better, on top of all these potential:
 
- Sharing is a snap
- and less and less paper-to-digital-document-conversion is required!
 
Of course, before we can do all that, we would like to have all that features again without the sluggish performance nor the 'hang' features that 'previous' Windows Tablet PC provides.
 
Without those 'annoyances' tablet device is actually extremely superbly useful, powerful and practical.
More: if the the annoying physical keyboard could be removed removed, and the thickness of the screen could be made super thin (e.g. the way the Macbook Air does), the we would surely had something truly excellent in our hand.
 
These are our 'hopes', 'expectation' and 'dreams' for now. We'll see how next Tablet device's real form factor would be.