Jenn of Mid Moves, embarking on a blogging tour using devices like the new OQO model 2+, takes a side in the long-running religious war over whether these things should have world-facing cameras.
I am sitting at a cafe near the entrance of Magic Mountain wishing the OQO Model 2+ I’m typing this on had a camera. And not even a very good one. Just *something* that would allow me to take a quick picture and add it to this post. … The Model 2+ doesn’t have a memory card slot … Expect more micro blogging and text-only posts than anything else today. *sigh* Not a good day so far.
There’s a class of UMPC user who gets offended when this point is made. In that view, wanting a camera on a UMPC is impurely proletarian: why not leave such functions to smartphones such as Apple’s iPhone or Sony’s Xperia X1? How dare you blog on a handheld computer? It is for work!
Screw those guys: the lack of a camera, or at least an SD card slot, is the OQO’s principal failing for precisely these reasons. And yes, utilitarian quality is just fine, too!
This could be fixed with an accessory, at least for those UMPCs and MIDs that have appropriately located USB ports: a rigid camera, the size of a small thumbdrive, that plugs into the slot. I can’t actually find anything like this (they all have long cords and other flaws) — anyone know where to get one?
Do MIDs need cameras? [MID Moves]
UMPCs / MIDs are supposed to be a single device that replaces needing both a smartphone and a laptop.
So of course it needs a camera; hell, make it 8 megapixels while you’re at it.
They do exist: Volvox USB webcam key (Posted on 2006-12-19)
Thank you!
This is one of those rare occasions where the forum troll taunt “QQ moar” is oddly appropriate.