Re: [NTLK] [OT] iPod and Newton engineers

From: Ed Kummel (tech_ed_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Nov 28 2001 - 15:37:05 EST


if you want to talk interfaces, take a look at
E.Digital's MXP100.
It's all voice activated. Forget the GUI, go with
what's natural!
Ed
web/gadget guru

--- James Witte <jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us> wrote:
>
> > QuickTime player, and email device. It's also
> reported that a bunch of
> > engineers from the old Newton group worked
> directly on the internal
> > workings of the iPod.
>
> *Very* interesting.. Although for a PDA, the
> iPods screen seems
> awefully small for anything more than a phone book
> (think REX) If it had
> a touchscreen built-in, I might just buy one now,
> knowing that they could
> release a firmware upgrade, or maybe someone will
> figure out how to hack
> it (unlikely, the Newton was more documented
> internally than the iPod is
> AFAIK, and it hasn't been hacked substantially)
>
> Jim

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