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@WinMo and Chumby

For that price you could buy one Albo, two chumbys or...

....erm....

A laptop? In fact, you could buy 2 netbooks.

FAIL.

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That Chumby

like all Yanks, fat and useless.

Paris - one out of two ain't bad

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Old idea

There were a brace of similar devices a few years ago and they never caught on e.g. the Siemens Simpad (also WindowsCE)

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Infrared

"It even has an infrared port, so you can zap over snaps taken on your phone."

Bluetooth would be more useful, my phone doesn't have an infrared port.

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Rollin Old Skool...

http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/Shustek/37-Xerox-Alto.gif

<insert additional slang I don't understand here>

Additionally, who else thinks "Albo" sounds like "Alpo" but for the Aibo? Anybody?

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