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Nerds and aesthetic design don't mix.

Get some artists involved! Please!]]>Dec 7th 2006 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/Dec 7th 2006 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/
Whatever, it looks a bit of a brick but i have to say there is deffinitly a market for it. For me that screen or a psp sise screen is the minimal that i will allow my self to spend a significant amount of time looking at, for aesthetic as well as comfort and health reasons.
A UMP is too big to carry around casually and a pda is too small a screen to excite me.
I'm willing to pay around $1,000, for a device that size that can do most things.
I think these companys think wifi etc is the new internet. By that i mean it's a buz word and everyone thinks the customers are desperate for it. I for one would never need it. I think the bubble on wifi being a feature in everything will burst at some poing. Also, companies love it cause it allows them to create afte sales services such as downloads that they can charge for. I just wanna upload everything i might need to do via my home pc and not pay some company for stuff i already have on my home computer.

Anyway, as soon as a company brings something like that out, maybe a bit better looking and slimmer, then i'll be ready with my $1,000.
I won't buy a zune or ipod cause i dont want to be beholden to the company that sold it to me for how i use it. I won't buy a psp or ds cause it wont let me do other stuff. And i won't buy a collection of gadgets cause i dont wanna carry a whole load of crap around.
I want one converged, open device about the size of this thing that can play mp3's, games, movies, take photos, make phone calls, be a pda and other things. When it's in a shop window i'll open my wallet and hand over a grand.]]>Dec 7th 2006 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/Dec 7th 2006 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/Dec 12th 2006 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/Dec 7th 2006 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/Dec 7th 2006 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/Dec 7th 2006 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/
Check this out. http://www.gp2x.co.uk

It's another Korean gadget. the GP2X is a bit like a psp except you can do anything on it. Upload movies and it automatically re sizes them. MP3S, photos, games whatever you like. It's also a bit ugly but it uses up to a 4 gig SD card and the company just sells it and that's it.
you pay about 180 dollars and you can even emulate just about any games machine in the past so it has thousands of free games essentially.
The device i'm waiting for would look a bit like the Nintendo DS for a nice clamshell protection. Open up and have a psp size screen on the top and a keyboard/game controller interface on the bottom, be like the GP2X: an open system and do just about anything i want.
The only thing stopping this product from happening is that all the differing companies what too bigga slice of the pie so they won't collaborate enough to game a truly convergent device. So what we get is a device that is great at some functions but very poor at others.
Oh well, my credit card will wait till the killer device is revealed.]]>Dec 7th 2006 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/Dec 7th 2006 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/Dec 7th 2006 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/And I shure hope that those goldish buttons aren't for playing games or something like that...
Wow... just wow. Win for worst design ever. I mean, if I glue up some digicam, with a UMP, cellphone or whatever, I think it will still look better.]]>Dec 8th 2006 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/mius-m-free-all-in-one-never-looked-so-bad/Dec 9th 2006 6:52PM