Comment by Cloudef

2 days ago

Can't find it from this archive, but the concept appears on this PDF

"Pocket office"

"Phone, computer, television, video, all are becoming one"

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Cloudef

http://twitpic.com/btc934 "Taskuterminaali 2002", the concept is from 1996 envisioning what would be released in 2002.

I guess the technology components were not yet on that level by then.

Fnoord 2 days ago

SGI Irix was ahead of its time, and so were the Nokia Communicator.
Battery quality/video quality wasn't up to par for mobile devices. Some DVB-T smartphones were released. Also, WWW wasn't made for touchscreen (where capacitive touch requires more modification than resistive).
I'd say on the Linux-side, Maemo and the internet tablet (NIT) were ahead of their time, still limited given power efficiency, but better than Intel.