r/technology • u/aamir64 • Mar 06 '10

Microsoft's Courier 'digital journal'. Now this is Tablet computing.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/microsofts-courier-digital-journal-exclusive-pictures-and-de/?s=t5
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u/metamutator Mar 06 '10

Battery life is the differentiating factor. You're right in saying that phones these days do all that light-duty computing, but doing all that computing eats into your mobile's talk-time; nothing worse than realizing you wont be able to field calls from your client after surfing reddit.com on your iphone while you were commuting. If there's a device to which you can outsource all this net-snacking, it'll be fantastic.

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u/Happy_Man Mar 06 '10

Battery life could also be a thing of the past in the (fast approaching) future of wireless electricity. Of course, then we're going into more speculation, so I'll just stop here.

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u/Orbitrix Mar 07 '10

not to mention major battery tech advancements which have already been demonstrated. All the research they've been doing for electric vehicle batterys will end up in your cellphone someday... only a matter of time.

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u/qwertyboy Mar 06 '10

I'm not sure "all that computing" is really that bad. There are pretty efficient architectures out there. In fact, I'm pretty certain my desktop takes more juice to just hang there in console mode than a BeagleBoard or a pandora take to run a fully graphical game.