back to article 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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  1. RichyS
    Paris Hilton

    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...

  2. Goubert
    Coat

    On a stick ?

    Does it come with a jalapeño shaped cover ?

    On a stick.

    Mine's the one that talks on its own.

  3. James

    Japanese text...

    ..don't think it'll sell well in the UK. ;)

  4. Martyn
    Joke

    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.

  5. Jon Double Nice
    Happy

    Retro cool yays!

    Isn't this what things in the future are supposed to look like?

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    @ Re: how much

    The stick for a JesusPhone should be an iCrucifix.

  7. Craig

    Google 'chumby'

    Already out in the US, much cheaper!

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    webster phreaky should like it!

    They absolutely crucified the iPhone.

  9. Charles Manning
    Thumb Up

    iKeg

    iBeer scaled up!

  10. Martin Lyne

    Erm

    Doesnt the stand make it unweildy and table-requiring? Design fail perhaps.

  11. Pierre
    Joke

    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.

  12. Steven Hunter
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    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.

  13. Anonymous Coward
    Unhappy

    Oh, I thought you said

    ASBO on a stick; and I'm thinking - AHA! a new kind of clue stick.

    What a disappointment.

  14. Richard Kilpatrick
    Stop

    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.

  15. Pete "oranges" B.
    Happy

    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?

  16. Michael Warburton

    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.

  17. JohnG

    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)

  18. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    That Chumby

    like all Yanks, fat and useless.

    Paris - one out of two ain't bad

  19. Anonymous Coward
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    @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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