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Comments on: Sanyo intros 'iPhone-on-a-stick' home internet terminal

How much? 

Posted Wednesday 29th October 2008 15:45 GMT

Paris Hilton

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 ? 

Posted Wednesday 29th October 2008 15:53 GMT

Coat

Does it come with a jalapeño shaped cover ?

On a stick.

Mine's the one that talks on its own.

Japanese text... 

Posted Wednesday 29th October 2008 15:59 GMT

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

Re: how much 

Posted Wednesday 29th October 2008 16:07 GMT

Joke

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! 

Posted Wednesday 29th October 2008 16:16 GMT

Happy

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

@ Re: how much 

Posted Wednesday 29th October 2008 16:23 GMT

The stick for a JesusPhone should be an iCrucifix.

Google 'chumby' 

Posted Wednesday 29th October 2008 16:25 GMT

Already out in the US, much cheaper!

webster phreaky should like it! 

Posted Wednesday 29th October 2008 16:38 GMT

Joke

They absolutely crucified the iPhone.

iKeg 

Posted Wednesday 29th October 2008 17:27 GMT

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iBeer scaled up!

Erm 

Posted Wednesday 29th October 2008 17:34 GMT

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

At long last... 

Posted Wednesday 29th October 2008 18:54 GMT

Joke

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? 

Posted Wednesday 29th October 2008 18:55 GMT

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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 

Posted Wednesday 29th October 2008 19:20 GMT

Unhappy

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

What a disappointment.

Odd One Out 

Posted Wednesday 29th October 2008 20:56 GMT

Stop

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... 

Posted Thursday 30th October 2008 01:13 GMT

Happy

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 

Posted Thursday 30th October 2008 10:27 GMT

"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 

Posted Thursday 30th October 2008 13:22 GMT

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 

Posted Thursday 30th October 2008 15:22 GMT

Paris Hilton

like all Yanks, fat and useless.

Paris - one out of two ain't bad

@WinMo and Chumby 

Posted Friday 31st October 2008 15:16 GMT

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For that price you could buy one Albo, two chumbys or...

....erm....

A laptop? In fact, you could buy 2 netbooks.

FAIL.