Sanyo intros 'iPhone-on-a-stick' home internet terminal
Japan's Sanyo is to offer locals an internet access terminal looks like a giant Jesus Phone on a stick. Sanyo's Albo: iPhone on a stick Dubbed the "Albo Home Network Viewer", the unit's designed to connect to a home's Wi-Fi network and allow users to hop online and check email, run webcam sessions, send instant messages, …
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How much?
Wouldn't it be cheaper to put a JesusPhone on a stick (well, an iPod Touch at least -- but I'm not sure what biblical term for the latter piece of kit is).
Paris, 'cos I've seen her in the biblical sense...
On a stick ?
Does it come with a jalapeño shaped cover ?
On a stick.
Mine's the one that talks on its own.
Japanese text...
..don't think it'll sell well in the UK. ;)
Re: how much
Wouldn't it be cheaper to put a JesusPhone on a stick (well, an iPod Touch at least -- but I'm not sure what biblical term for the latter piece of kit is).
surely that should be a jesusphone on the new iStick.
Retro cool yays!
Isn't this what things in the future are supposed to look like?
@ Re: how much
The stick for a JesusPhone should be an iCrucifix.
webster phreaky should like it!
They absolutely crucified the iPhone.
Erm
Doesnt the stand make it unweildy and table-requiring? Design fail perhaps.
At long last...
The smartphone that doesn't have a phone function is finally out! I knew it would happen!
Joke aside, this is a good old last-era terminal, web 2.0-style. I tend to prefer keyboard over webcam-and-mic, but I might be a bit old-school. I can see that gadget finding its hypster target though. It makes much more sense than cramming a wannabe-entertainment center in a tiny device with no proper display or audio.
Windows Mobile?
Windows Mobile? I'd rather be shot in the face.
Besides for the same price you could get TWO Chumbys. (http://store.chumby.com/) The Chumby certainly *looks* nicer.
Oh, I thought you said
ASBO on a stick; and I'm thinking - AHA! a new kind of clue stick.
What a disappointment.
Odd One Out
1: Jesus Phone
2: The Forth Rail Bridge
3: Margaret Thatcher
4: Windows 7
Answer:
4 - The rest are getting Really Old, Really Fast. Just call it a bloody iPhone and be done with it.
Rollin Old Skool...
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/Shustek/37-Xerox-Alto.gif
<insert additional slang I don't understand here>
Additionally, who else thinks "Albo" sounds like "Alpo" but for the Aibo? Anybody?
Infrared
"It even has an infrared port, so you can zap over snaps taken on your phone."
Bluetooth would be more useful, my phone doesn't have an infrared port.
Old idea
There were a brace of similar devices a few years ago and they never caught on e.g. the Siemens Simpad (also WindowsCE)
That Chumby
like all Yanks, fat and useless.
Paris - one out of two ain't bad
@WinMo and Chumby
For that price you could buy one Albo, two chumbys or...
....erm....
A laptop? In fact, you could buy 2 netbooks.
FAIL.
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