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- student69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6To watch the video. Go to: http://www.d-kitchen.com/main.html
Then navigate the flash site: Enter > Work > BrandTheatre > Microsoft Origami - xpack10, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Wow, that can totally fit in your pocket if your a clown
- dracula7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4pdas have been around for awhile : i know nintendo made touch screens cool and all :-)
but still . . .
all i got from this was : incredibly attractive, hip young people use this HUGE pda that syncs up w/ windows media center & cell phones to draw / write stupid things digitally - mancat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So... Only rich hipsters will be buying this? That's what the video seems to be communicating to me.
- allenu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I don't think I'm attractive and fashionable enough to use this product.
- kleepklop, on 05/01/2009, -0/+2Here's the direct link: http://www.d-kitchen.com/flv/msorigami.flv [19.6MB]
- staticten, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@clarencepk
"eave it to MS to release a totally new product.
http://www.oqo.com/
The OQO has been around for about three years now. I don't see what's so great about this Origami crap."
OQO is their freaking partner numbnuts!! Your making sound like they stole the idea!! And besides, OQO really sucked!!! Didn't they file for bankruptcy already! - jackmaninov, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes, this seems fairly cool, but I just can't see Microsoft delivering on the software side. We see the actors snapping a photo, and then immediately scribbling a note and sending it.
What do you bet that when this comes out, you'll have to:
1) Snap your photo
2) The device will have to detect your camera (minimum 15 seconds)
3) Run the import photo wizard (which will require 5 or 6 button clicks)
4) Write your message.
5) 5 or 6 button clicks to save your handwritten message with the file
6) Click 3 or 4 times to access Wifi
7) Another 30 seconds to send the picture off in an email
8) Have to eject the camera (2 button clicks and at least 30 seconds). If you don't eject the camera, the Origami will bitch the next time you use it.
Microsoft just can't do simple user experience! - ZogDog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'd buy that for a dollar
- h2d2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's not too big... as a college student, I hate carrying a laptop around... but I would love to carry one of these.
- buss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think Microsoft's grand vision behind this, and most likely their marketing strategy, is easy coordination between all of your devices. There was a guy with a digital leica camera who seamlessly sent the photo he just took and modified to a friend, a girl who controlled her desktop, and another guy who took a picture with his cameraphone which then sent the picture to his origami which he used to email the picture. I think its cool, but it does seem to be between a laptop and a pda in size, which isn't really a good form factor: too smal for using comfortably on a lap, too big to hold comfortably in one hand.
- BillyBobMac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Poor Microsoft. They so want to be hip. The truth is the only folks who will buy this thing are IT types who want to clip another device to their overpopulated geek belts. It's just ridiculously big. Sure it appears to have some nifty features, but why not just tote an ultra-portable notebook/tablet computer instead? As usual, MS and partners will release a bloated, clunky utterly style-less device that does too many things and confuses consumers; Apple will release a video iPod/tablet that will actually get it right.
- jguy584, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Its to big to become popular
Its just a smaller tablet PC
this is gonna flop
(unless it has insane system specs) - t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Knowing it's Microsoft, it's going to be very hyped up, and then suck when it comes out.
- MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Is it me, or did they use the word free an awful lot?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
I will put $200 down that:
1) It has lots of built-in DRM so the "rights" of Microsofts croneys in the media are protected, no matter how much it screws the people who actually buy their products.
2) No non-DRM media formats supported.. no MP3, etc. only WMV, WMA files. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Love how some one just 'happened' to find this on the marketing co. website. 'happens' to use WMCE WME 5 and just can't wait to get his hands on this little puppy. If you as me they are 'leaking' this on purpose. Love the viral marketing.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hahaha that thing is so big! Microsoft must have forgot to realize that people like to put their phones and mp3 players in their pockets. You need a backpack just to carry that thing around. And who wants to use a phone that's bigger than their face?
It needs to be half its current size to be successful. - Macattack15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah, here is teh video incase the other server goes down
http://creativecoremedia.com/mso.swf - mosigma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i think its cool. i love microsoft and just about all of their products. they keep IT people like me in business. troubleshooting and repairing stuff is my bread and butter.
yippy! another toy to learn how to tinker with and fix.
i bet its horrible on batteries. - ArchAngel21x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/24/microsofts-origiami-project/
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This fake. as i6koi said. The orgami thing keeps changing. What's the point of it anyone, I mean it's like twice the size on a SEGA GameGear, you might as well just get an iBook or a Tablet PC.
- kelly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think it looks too large and cumbersome to to be used at the same frequency and daily use as the video shows. Its probably real... because that's how Microsoft designs these types of devices.
- h3dru5h, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lame
- nullvector, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2How else can MS beat the Ipod? Mp3 player territory is already taken. The only way they can get people to ditch Ipods is by coming up with an all-in-one device, and making it open for development (i.e. windows).
People who say this is too big, this isnt a PDA. Its more of a smaller laptop for people who dont mind carrying around bags. It's not a "carry me grocery shopping" type of system, its more catered to people who use laptops, who want something smaller that can do email and most basic computer stuff, without having to deal with a CRAPPY input method that most PDA's have.
I think its a good idea actually...if you can't beat ipod with a similar mp3 product, come out with a product that beats ipod on functionality, appealing to the same audience, and make it affordable.
Affordability is key for this product. If its $900, it wont go anywhere. Make it $500, and this will be HUGE. - groovytasticsam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1but it runs windows...
- Kenotic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Has anyone stopped to think this might be Microsoft trying to enter the personal server market hyped by IBM a few years ago. It seems to me to be what they are trying to do. The idea is that you have constant access to all of your information anywhere.
- dominowrecker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1well I agree with a lot of people about the price. I think thay will be the main factor.
To other people saying its too big, well all I can say is anything smaller and using the internet (and most applications) is useless. Which imo is why most palm. and CE devices never really take off. The oqo had the resolution, but the screen size itself was too small and the keyboard wasnt all that great either. But of course the biggest problem with the oqo was the price. Thats why it never took off.....same thing can happen here if origami is $$$$$. - dominowrecker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Something like this will HAVE TO make it big sometime soon. Apple might do it, once they see everything that Microsoft will do wrong with it."
Well if Apple were to release a product like this...it would have to use some flavor of windows to work (and that wouldnt happen). Otherwise most of the population wouldnt buy it. So as much as I think Apple could make a great device, they can never get past that hurtle. - btipling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hate how marketing types think people will relate to young rich and hip types. People who work in marketing have skewed sense of reality, and if there's any justice in this world, there's a special circle of hell just for them full of old and sick people who have no money and dress badly.
- mtvkilledusall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Also, that leica camera he used is not wireless capable.
- FishyJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1All the micro notebooks/pentops have been lukewarm at best, why would this be any different?
- Waredgo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Something like this will HAVE TO make it big sometime soon. Apple might do it, once they see everything that Microsoft will do wrong with it. Something bigger and more powerful than a PDA, touch screen, expandable with perhipherals, a remote desktop to yur home computer. It HAS to come out sometime! I think that the XY dimensions are O.K., they just need to make sure that it is thin enough to slip into a backpack. Battery life has to be darn good too, maybe thin polymer and optional battery pack.
- charge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it could be cool. right guys? right?
besides, this could be an old ad! i didn't really snoop for a date produced or anything though. it's a nice concept at least. - niai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB7HIPKF1OY
- ross., on 10/12/2007, -0/+0LOL at the Microsoft Athens thing on that page..it's called an iMac and its been done already, microsoft!!
- mrdennmann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh, C'mon. Did any of you watch the video for "Microsoft Spot"? at the very end of the video about this magical watch, apparently with a telepathic interface, the text reads "Coming 2003".
Could Orgami also be Vapourware? - icematrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've been asking for a device like this for YEARS, a lot of you are saying things like "too big, get a laptop" but, if you were a tech who is on the go all day then you will realize the need for something in-between a big laptop and a tiny pocket PC.
This is a device with a usable keyboard, a display which can show more than 15 characters across and properly render a web page, yet can be thrown in a sack with your other equipment or zipped in a jacket pocket. Genius. - etx313, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"The OQO has been around for about three years now. I don't see what's so great about this Origami crap."
Hey *****, the oqo is $2200+. I doubt this thing will be half that much... - ross., on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I hope this gets better before they release it...look like it has potential.
Hopefully Apple will beat them to the punch and it will flop. - Lacrossedragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1""Knowing it's Microsoft, it's going to be very hyped up, and then suck when it comes out.""
You can replace Microsoft with the following: Apple, Sony, Bungie, Nintendo, Sirius, Nvidia, IBM, Toshiba, Toyota, Honda, GM, Ford, Dell, and of course Infinum. - pampusik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It looks like an Apple Newton MP2000 mildly updated with a color screen and integrated 802.11x --especially with the keyboard. It's so 1990's...
*snore* - vertigoblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sick!, he was playing Halo...
thats all i have to say. - ductoogle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'll have to see more to say a price but I would buy it.
P.S. the phone the pic was taken with and sent to the origami with is a verizon so It couldent be bluetooth because verizon restricts there bluetooth so it sucks. - dlichteman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How much you wanna bet it will be something like:
"To come out in 2020"
Rolfs cool
dugg
OQO is cool though saw one at work - Zipp425, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Its microsofts solution to the Apple Ipod... I have a feeling the size will vary, and so will the specs...
- appletalk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've seen many comments critizicing OQO.
I've never seen one, but what's so bad about it? - mrtibbs309, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0awesome
- LaCamiseta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If this does everything in the video (including playing X-Box games), and is a reasonable price point, with a decent battery life (I'm at school up to 14 hours some days and prefer to be untethered), I'm in. It'd be a lot easier to take notes (especially to diagram some of the lit. notes in my lectures).
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1looks like a nintendo DS
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