Wow, Origami, an ultra mobile computer. It’s small, it has a touch screen, it’s wirelessy connected everywhere to everything. Sounds rocking!

Sadly the teasers and ‘viral marketing’ (lame as they were) can do nothing now the (mangy) cat is out of the bag!

If you thought the ‘leaked’ video proto’s were bad you are in for an unpleasent suprise - boy do the prototypes suck! They look like really bad mid 80s mobile phones, or the original PDA’s or a cheap plastic techno picture frame. But unlike old phones there’s no reason. Old phones and the like looked looked crap partly because they had to be huge and run off car batteries gaffer taped to your brief case. This time the technology is not the problem - it’s the industrial design. You can see why Apple keep it in house. iPod phenomenon this is not.

And talk about non specific. One button states ‘accomplish tasks’, huh, what, how? It never really says. Antoher says ‘communicate’. Sounds good. But how? With what? Ah, yes a mobile phone is required, that’ll be a great experience. Nevermind, at least you can download the software patches with your phone when the damn thing bluescreens!

To paraphrase the website: *Be Effective On The er Job* (snigger!)

I am so underwhelmed. The website doesn’t even work properly on anything I’ve tried apart from Internet Explorer on a PC - no Mac browsers, no Firefox, no Opera. Smart move guys.

So to sum it up, it’s a thing, made (badly) by third parties, running some non specific sub version of windows that magically (most likely badly) connects to the internet and vague things.

Hmm, so this will be better than my 12″ Powerbook how? I have put wallet away.

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