Comments on: Toshiba TG01. A Quantum Leap In Mobile Design (Thanks To Qualcomm) http://www.dotdust.com/toshiba-tg01-a-quantum-leap-in-mobile-design-thanks-to-qualcomm-451.htm An Innovation Weblog Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:00:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Chicago Web Design http://www.dotdust.com/toshiba-tg01-a-quantum-leap-in-mobile-design-thanks-to-qualcomm-451.htm/comment-page-1#comment-58156 Chicago Web Design Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:51:26 +0000 http://www.dotdust.com/?p=451#comment-58156 Nexus One is amazing, and has the Snapdragon in it; blows the iPhone out of the water Nexus One is amazing, and has the Snapdragon in it; blows the iPhone out of the water

]]> By: nighty http://www.dotdust.com/toshiba-tg01-a-quantum-leap-in-mobile-design-thanks-to-qualcomm-451.htm/comment-page-1#comment-51813 nighty Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:41:00 +0000 http://www.dotdust.com/?p=451#comment-51813 I just tested the TA01 (name of the TG01 in Japan) with Windows Mobile 6.1. 1) Toshiba delayed the shipping of units to shops because of a major bug that needs to be fixed (can't dial certain numbers in Japan LOL:) 2) Windows Mobile on that machine makes the TA01 touch screen unresponsive as hell compared to an Iphone (and this is not a bug it is just Windows Mobile), The icon look like they miss antialiasing and whoever designed the Toshiba cover interface has been learning design in Soviet Union during the cold war or something 3) the Interface is completely idiotic 4) If they do not put Android on it, it is just a waste of good hardware. I just tested the TA01 (name of the TG01 in Japan)
with Windows Mobile 6.1.

1) Toshiba delayed the shipping of units to shops
because of a major bug that needs to be fixed (can’t dial certain numbers in Japan LOL:)

2) Windows Mobile on that machine makes the TA01 touch screen unresponsive as hell compared to an Iphone (and this is not a bug it is just Windows Mobile), The icon look like they miss antialiasing and whoever designed the Toshiba cover interface has been learning design in Soviet Union during the cold war or something

3) the Interface is completely idiotic

4) If they do not put Android on it, it is just a waste of good hardware.

]]> By: Todd Hoff - FriendFeed http://www.dotdust.com/toshiba-tg01-a-quantum-leap-in-mobile-design-thanks-to-qualcomm-451.htm/comment-page-1#comment-45603 Todd Hoff - FriendFeed Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:15:07 +0000 http://www.dotdust.com/?p=451#comment-45603 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] February 1 at 11:54 am - youtube.com - via Reshare - Link Atul Arora and David Lynch liked this Innovative products developed by user community. Example is Mountain Bikes which are a billion dollar business developed by a community of bikers in Norther California that saw a need and had the skills and tools to succeed. MBs now account for 65% of all bike sales at $58 billion. This is a market that would have never been created by big companies as they wouldn't see the need or opportunity. - Todd Hoff 7 more comments Traditional corporate model thinks creativity is about special people, that come together in special places, think up special ideas that goes through a pipeline to passive consumers who decide yes/no to an invention. With this view policy is to just create more special people, more special places, build creative clusters, and make bigger pipelines. Closed organizations. - Todd Hoff Thinks this model is wrong. Creativity is highly collaborative and interactive. Ideas come back up the pipeline from consumers. Radical innovation is most often produced by consumers because the pay off is the least certain. Example: inventors though telephone would be used for live performances, and had no idea what SMS was for. - Todd Hoff The more radical the innovation, the more the uncertainty, the more you need consumers to use and work out what the innovation is for. More and more inventors will not be able to say what the invention for. It will be worked out through use. Patents assume inventors know what the innovation is for. - Todd Hoff In large organizations the pressure is to make a incremental change to existing product, with an existing channel, with a predictable sales. Selling radical innovation with an uncertain payoff isn't attractive. This is why organizational structure has a built-in tendency to reinforce past success. - Todd Hoff Emerging markets are the best breeding ground for passionate users. Example: rap. Would have never come from big companies. It was created by users. - Todd Hoff Professional amateurs (proams) who want to do some things they love but at a very high level. Example: astronomy. New technology has made it possible for amateurs to do some very professional work. New explosion of vast productive resources. Users can become producers. At work people don't feel very expressed. They don't feel like what they are doing matters. Now amateur users are becoming high quality producers. - Todd Hoff When the internet combines with passionate proam consumers who have the knowledge, tools, and incentive to innovate do use the explosion of innovation and creative collaboration. How do we organize ourselves without organizations? This is possible now. Open source. Intelligent closed organizations will move more towards open organizations. Companies built on communities that support, tools, resources, and platform that they can share. - Todd Hoff What we are seeing is a complete corruption of the copyright and patents. They are now being used to stifle competition. Old tries to stifle innovation of new through patents, copyright etc. Difficult to get VC funding without patent so competition to Outlook, for example, can only come from Open source. - Todd Hoff liked for title, haven't watched yet. - David Lynch Toshiba TG01. A Quantum Leap In Mobile Design (Thanks To Qualcomm) [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> Kramer auto Pingback[...] February 1 at 11:54 am – youtube.com – via Reshare – Link Atul Arora and David Lynch liked this Innovative products developed by user community. Example is Mountain Bikes which are a billion dollar business developed by a community of bikers in Norther California that saw a need and had the skills and tools to succeed. MBs now account for 65% of all bike sales at $58 billion. This is a market that would have never been created by big companies as they wouldn’t see the need or opportunity. – Todd Hoff 7 more comments Traditional corporate model thinks creativity is about special people, that come together in special places, think up special ideas that goes through a pipeline to passive consumers who decide yes/no to an invention. With this view policy is to just create more special people, more special places, build creative clusters, and make bigger pipelines. Closed organizations. – Todd Hoff Thinks this model is wrong. Creativity is highly collaborative and interactive. Ideas come back up the pipeline from consumers. Radical innovation is most often produced by consumers because the pay off is the least certain. Example: inventors though telephone would be used for live performances, and had no idea what SMS was for. – Todd Hoff The more radical the innovation, the more the uncertainty, the more you need consumers to use and work out what the innovation is for. More and more inventors will not be able to say what the invention for. It will be worked out through use. Patents assume inventors know what the innovation is for. – Todd Hoff In large organizations the pressure is to make a incremental change to existing product, with an existing channel, with a predictable sales. Selling radical innovation with an uncertain payoff isn’t attractive. This is why organizational structure has a built-in tendency to reinforce past success. – Todd Hoff Emerging markets are the best breeding ground for passionate users. Example: rap. Would have never come from big companies. It was created by users. – Todd Hoff Professional amateurs (proams) who want to do some things they love but at a very high level. Example: astronomy. New technology has made it possible for amateurs to do some very professional work. New explosion of vast productive resources. Users can become producers. At work people don’t feel very expressed. They don’t feel like what they are doing matters. Now amateur users are becoming high quality producers. – Todd Hoff When the internet combines with passionate proam consumers who have the knowledge, tools, and incentive to innovate do use the explosion of innovation and creative collaboration. How do we organize ourselves without organizations? This is possible now. Open source. Intelligent closed organizations will move more towards open organizations. Companies built on communities that support, tools, resources, and platform that they can share. – Todd Hoff What we are seeing is a complete corruption of the copyright and patents. They are now being used to stifle competition. Old tries to stifle innovation of new through patents, copyright etc. Difficult to get VC funding without patent so competition to Outlook, for example, can only come from Open source. – Todd Hoff liked for title, haven’t watched yet. – David Lynch Toshiba TG01. A Quantum Leap In Mobile Design (Thanks To Qualcomm) [...]

]]> By: Steven Leung http://www.dotdust.com/toshiba-tg01-a-quantum-leap-in-mobile-design-thanks-to-qualcomm-451.htm/comment-page-1#comment-44117 Steven Leung Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:16:03 +0000 http://www.dotdust.com/?p=451#comment-44117 This has every possible buzzword your money can buy, but I'm concerned it's tied to the boat anchor that is Windows Mobile. Don't get me wrong, I've used Windows Mobile through every name change, ever since the first Casiopeia with WinCE 1.0. With a 1GB microdrive in the CF sleeve, my original Pocket PC iPaq was the iPod before the iPod. That said, having used every version, up to an including my current HTC Mogul with Windows Mobile 6, I can honestly say that Microsoft hasn't fixed some fundamental issues for the last decade. Let's start with memory management. Years back I read a WinMo program manager say they wouldn't let people close applications manually (you can but it wasn't convenient) because they didn't think users should need to manage memory in a portable device. What that left users with was a machine that would hang after prolonged use because of memory leaks. It still does, even if you shutdown your apps. Today it hung while an alarm was ringing and I had to pull the battery to get it to stop. The second issue is the Windows GUI paradigm. It was amazing that they could fit a Windows 95 style interface into WinCE 1.0. That quickly became old as menu bars took more space than the actual application. Even with a new shell like the HTC Touch, applications outside the shell still revert to the Windows-style controls and menus. Let's not even get started about the phone, which acts like it's a bolt-on application to the operating system. This is something an MS exec recently admitted, which means no amount of spin could deny it :-) I credit the folks at MS for making Windows Mobile APIs similar to Win32 APIs so apps could be easily developed. But given the sea change in the market and where Windows Mobile is today, you have to wonder what could have been. This has every possible buzzword your money can buy, but I'm concerned it's tied to the boat anchor that is Windows Mobile.

Don't get me wrong, I've used Windows Mobile through every name change, ever since the first Casiopeia with WinCE 1.0. With a 1GB microdrive in the CF sleeve, my original Pocket PC iPaq was the iPod before the iPod.

That said, having used every version, up to an including my current HTC Mogul with Windows Mobile 6, I can honestly say that Microsoft hasn't fixed some fundamental issues for the last decade.

Let's start with memory management. Years back I read a WinMo program manager say they wouldn't let people close applications manually (you can but it wasn't convenient) because they didn't think users should need to manage memory in a portable device.

What that left users with was a machine that would hang after prolonged use because of memory leaks. It still does, even if you shutdown your apps. Today it hung while an alarm was ringing and I had to pull the battery to get it to stop.

The second issue is the Windows GUI paradigm. It was amazing that they could fit a Windows 95 style interface into WinCE 1.0. That quickly became old as menu bars took more space than the actual application. Even with a new shell like the HTC Touch, applications outside the shell still revert to the Windows-style controls and menus.

Let's not even get started about the phone, which acts like it's a bolt-on application to the operating system. This is something an MS exec recently admitted, which means no amount of spin could deny it :-)

I credit the folks at MS for making Windows Mobile APIs similar to Win32 APIs so apps could be easily developed. But given the sea change in the market and where Windows Mobile is today, you have to wonder what could have been.

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