Ignore those that obviously haven't got a clue. I applaud your efforts to "knock around" potential schemes for the use of this n-hand technology...what better way is there to make sense of the potential for this stuff anyway? I can't imagine what user of any "high-tech" product today wouldn't see the usefulness of a small $10.00, 20MB disk for storage. If Iomega can get it to work in a PCMCIA casing or shell, well, then it's obviously going to have a great impact potential. PDA's will without a doubt need to have some way to store data, move data, and access data..if they plan to ever be useful and usable. Have you ever had the pleasure of backing up your data from one of your organizers to a linked PC? Its not exactly a pleasant experience...it takes anywhere up to an hour to back up 256K using a PC link with a Sharp organizer. What about all the other possibilities...web tv's,internet phones, "books" on disk. You could distribute a respectable amount of content on a 20MB disk...it just wouldn't be feasible to do that in flash rom. Storage solutions like these are the future...small, portable, cheap. Keep up the good work, Cameron, you're right on the money....
From what I understand, the major issue with PDA's and the like is power consumption...particularly when using additional cards and accesories. This is where we need to dive a little deeper in our study of the n-hand. What kind of power consumption are we looking at for a hypothetical "n-disk in a PCMCIA slot" situation?
Any news you get on n-hand technology, or any competing technology, would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
JAD |
