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September 2, 2004

What would you want in a PDA?

Someone over at Slashdot posted an Ask Slashdot question asking "What is your Palmtop nirvana?" There are some intresting answers, and I just posted mine, but I wanted keep my ideas here as well. So read on for my palmtop nirvana.

Why hasn't any one asked for a PDA with a Hard drive? I currently have a Sony Clie NX60 that I love, but it would be sooo much better if it had a 40 GB drive in it. This way, I wouldn't need an iPod to play music, or a Archos AV Jukebox to play music and video. The screens on the newer generation PDA are beautiful, so we don't need improvment there to watch movies on it. So here is what I want:


  • All current Palm OS 5/6 features (i.e. all PIM features)

  • Ability to sync with my mac. :)

  • 40/60/80 GB harddrive (for current times)

  • better movie and music playing apps from the manufactor (not just 3rd party that i have to buy seperately)

  • GPS

  • GPRS/3G support - and ability to sync over it

  • bluetooth

  • WiFi

  • Very long battery life - especially when watching movies.

  • 1.3M+ pixel camera that can also caputre video. with integrated flash.

  • Probably not very realistic right now, but: It has a video projector on it that can project an image up to 30" wide. This would be very useful for a business person (as well as someone who just wants to project a movie on to a wall...hehe). You could just have a presentation on your PDA and project it onto the wall.

  • Able to make free VoIP phone calls like the Nintendo DS over WiFi

Nice to haves:

  • It runs Mac OS X

  • It is made by Apple...:)

  • Plugs into my head so I can just think and it will do what I want.

So that is what I want...what do YOU want?

Posted by Andrew at September 2, 2004 8:18 AM