Asia loves 'em some electronic dictionaries. Some even feature
mobile TV,
MP3 playback and
FM tuners. But it's not everyday one comes along sportin' an old iBook clamshell and WiFi. This WinCE 5.0 Pro device from HANNURI BIZ brings a 5-inch touchscreen and oddball QWERTY which looks nicer than it will likely feel to a touch-typist. The in-house named Nurian Z1 comes pre-loaded with IE naturally, which students are meant to use for "streaming audio and video education content" from the Internet. Yeah, and bypass all that YouTube goodness, right. In fact, with the ability to download and install any application, we've got a funny feeling that this will be everything
but an electronic dictionary once the kids have their way. Shipping sometime in February to Korea.
posted Dec 7th 2006 9:46AM
actually i dont mind having this , provided it can read documents and PDF
I think i just found my substitute for not being able to have administrator rights on my own laptop here at school. I can buy it and say it's just for a dictionary while i do whatever the hell i want to it. Haha, screw you IT!
The eMate lives again!
What, you mean these aren't super-secret spy pics of the new iBook mini?
How is this a dictionary rather than what it appears to be: a fully-functional laptop?
"How is this a dictionary rather than what it appears to be: a fully-functional laptop?"
My guess is that it comes preloaded with dictioary software and appropriate IMEs in order to be called a dictionary. As for it being a fully functional laptop...
It doesn't look at all touch-typeable, it has no internal harddrive, and it doesn't run a Desktop OS. In my book, those three things would disqualify it aa a "fully functional laptop".
But your point it well taken. I've been using HPCs as my denshi jishos whaile I've been over here in Japan, and even HPC2000 gives your device abilities far beyond that of simple dictionary. Let alone WM2003/SE/WM5.0...
Woo! Its a real H/PC! (Or at least the closest modern device we have had since the NEC/NTT Docomo Sigmarion 3) It would be a bit better with a keys shaped more like a normal keyboard, though.
Bah... Why do all the cool devices have to be asian only. :( All we ever get here are boring old Pocket PCs of which OEM's have very little freedom to innovate hardware-wise(though, MS is getting better...Windows Mobile for Pocket PC OEMs are still only permitted to use a few "supported" resolutions)
At least with the (now dead) Handheld PC 2000 Platform or a custom Windows CE OS, the OEM has the freedom to do whatever the hell they want. Damn compatability, I say! Most Pocket PC programs will run with hacks anyhow. If there was a MS supported standard platform for Handheld PCs again life would be so much easier... but oh well... I can live with hacks. They are half of the fun anyhow. :P
I can at least hope we get some easily hackable WinCE PNAs with keyboards in the states someday.... (Hey, a keyboard would make inputting addresses easier! Or, at least that is my excuse for having one.)