RE: [iPAQ] so, um, what was Compaq thinking?

On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 11:38, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Hicks, Jamey writes:
> > > Now we have the product development folks, who go and create what
> > > certainly *seems* to be a production version of the itsy. It's got
> > > one flaw: it has no accellerometer. The CRL folks have already
> > > demonstrated the usefulness of having an accellerometer on a handheld
> > > device. They've even written a white paper on it. Does the H3600
> > > have one? No.
> >
> > The iPAQ H3xxx series was inspired by Itsy, but is not a direct descendent of Itsy.
>
> So how's come an accellerometer wasn't inspired by Itsy?
>
> > There are many customers who have expressed an interest in the LCD,
> > frontlight, buttons, etc. I myself find the buttons to be quite
> > useful.
>
> :-) But how many customers even know that solid-state accellerometers
> exist? I never did until I heard that the itsy had one. People
> aren't going to ask for things they don't know exist.

That's true, but the applications of a CPU fast enough to do video
decompression and speech recognition were easy for the marketing team to
imagine. However, justifying the cost of an accelerometer has been a
tougher sell.

Jamey
Received on Tue Aug 20 01:12:29 2002