This stoopid product is going in backwards direction. I don't need another computer (or even radio...sat or terrestrial) in the car as I'm mobile and AM THE COMPUTER.
Built-in car stereos should go the way of the dodo-bird with more reliable 3g infrastructure, pervasive wifi/wimax, and only slight tweaks to current PDAs/Smartphones/UMPCs.
As sirius said they were experimenting with video delivery...you may find your next umpc with a sirius radio or a dongle option made available.
I should just plug into DC power my WM5 Hermes or Fujitsu ST5111 with WWAN/WIFI and can stream on bigger screen, have nav with voice...and it goes with me...not locked into the car.
We need umpcs (even phones) with video out (hdmi) so they can better "merge" into whatever your current environment/context is.
I can already use bluetooth to get new input (keyboard/mouse) and audio output...but not for video alas.
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Mike Klein @ Jul 10th 2007 9:44PM
This stoopid product is going in backwards direction. I don't need another computer (or even radio...sat or terrestrial) in the car as I'm mobile and AM THE COMPUTER.
Built-in car stereos should go the way of the dodo-bird with more reliable 3g infrastructure, pervasive wifi/wimax, and only slight tweaks to current PDAs/Smartphones/UMPCs.
As sirius said they were experimenting with video delivery...you may find your next umpc with a sirius radio or a dongle option made available.
I should just plug into DC power my WM5 Hermes or Fujitsu ST5111 with WWAN/WIFI and can stream on bigger screen, have nav with voice...and it goes with me...not locked into the car.
We need umpcs (even phones) with video out (hdmi) so they can better "merge" into whatever your current environment/context is.
I can already use bluetooth to get new input (keyboard/mouse) and audio output...but not for video alas.