I promised myself I'd pull myself away from the digihubverse whilst I was on vacation..but my wife is asleep, I'm wide awake and our hotel has access included in the price, as well as I having brought along a couple of i-capable gadgets..sigh It makes it hard to stay totally disconnected. :/
Anywho, it will be interesting to see what the price-point of this item is. It's not going to be the cheapest or the smallest, but the power consumption versus capability ratio is nothing to scoff at. The nearest comparable product i remember off-hand (It's been a couple of years since I've discretely researched for a similar form-factor device. An Atom/Tegra combo might blast this out of the water, I don't really know...yet) was the FitPC - a AMD Geode powered device, which ran at around half the speed of this device and was about the same dimensionally along the two longest edges and a smidge thicker.(About 20mm for the Firefly and 30mm for the FitPC slim, so about 2/3 the thickness and roughly double the horsepower - not bad for a little over a year. Some progress. ;) )
The Cobra Tag may help you win that losing battle, acting as a Bluetooth device that attaches to your key ring and connects to your phone, it gives you the opportunity to find the missing item if it's less than 30 feet away.
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I promised myself I'd pull myself away from the digihubverse whilst I was on vacation..but my wife is asleep, I'm wide awake and our hotel has access included in the price, as well as I having brought along a couple of i-capable gadgets..sigh It makes it hard to stay totally disconnected. :/
Anywho, it will be interesting to see what the price-point of this item is. It's not going to be the cheapest or the smallest, but the power consumption versus capability ratio is nothing to scoff at. The nearest comparable product i remember off-hand (It's been a couple of years since I've discretely researched for a similar form-factor device. An Atom/Tegra combo might blast this out of the water, I don't really know...yet) was the FitPC - a AMD Geode powered device, which ran at around half the speed of this device and was about the same dimensionally along the two longest edges and a smidge thicker.(About 20mm for the Firefly and 30mm for the FitPC slim, so about 2/3 the thickness and roughly double the horsepower - not bad for a little over a year. Some progress. ;) )
Here is a spec comparison between the two:
http://www.inhand.com/images/pdf/firefly-web.pdf
http://www.fit-pc.com/fit-pc1/fit-pc-slim-specifications.html
And here is a unboxing of the FitPC Slim model to get an idea of the dimensions of these devices. :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0XpoFlGDI0