Origami Report: Saturday, March 4th 2006

Several interesting posts today:

• ActiveNick has a lot to say. He’s under NDA, but he talks about the priorities Microsoft revealed, on the record, in February. (his 2/13/06 post is great, too!)
• Martin of Tablet UML News reports that he knows something, but he’s under NDA.
• Paul Mooney has notes from a Microsoft presentation (presumably the same presentation that ActiveNick saw in February). Good stuff!
• Scoble and Dennis Rice are trying to manage their own expectations. I’m definitely guilty of pinning all kinds of hopes and dreams on this thing.

I’ve given a little more thought to what I want out of the device.

• 1 GB of Ram (or expandable to that)
• 30 GB Hard Drive
• Docking Station with SVGA out or SVGA out on the unit
• PCMCIA slot
• Touch screen that works with fingers. Don’t laugh – some screens only respond to a special stylus.
• Wifi, Bluetooth
• Ethernet port
• At least one USB port
• $900 or less
• Gyro sensors
• Basic 3d graphics
• Basic protective case
• At least 1024 pixels in longest edge of the screen
• Screen rotation – portrait / landscape
• Available in March or April

What am I willing to give up?

• Kick butt 3d graphics
• Battery life – I can live with 3 hours
• Ultra high resolution stylus input with pressure and tilt sensing
• Buttons
• SD/CF slots
• Built-in VGA port
• Built-in camera
• Built-in microphone
• IR
• S-Video Out
• CD/DVD drive – leave it out of the unit and the docking station

You can see other posts about Origami on my blog here.