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Pictures in Our Heads
- bdfh42 17y agoHowever there are still two seemingly fundamental limits to the small portable device. 1. Battery power - every time you are doing something interesting you get the message saying that power is low and it's time to find a socket and plug in. Every month it seems we see posts on HN and elsewhere telling us that "super dooper" battery technology X is on it's way and will revolutionise our lives - they just never seem to turn up. 2. Data input technology. We are talking keyboards, stylus, finger gestures etc etc but at the end of the day you just can't create any appreciable volume of input using any sort of mobile device. OK - I take that back in the specialised arena of video. Maybe a twittering generation could cope but for "meat and potatoes" applications mobile devices can't meet the need.