Spotted this new PDA over at Brighthand today. The Jackito’s (gotta love that name) spec sheet reads like a Palm from the late 90’s … 2.5mb of RAM! 16mb of ROM! Black & white screen! $600! It’s as if the past 4 years never happened.
Of course, what the manufacturers are banking on is the simple fact that this little johnny-come-lately doesn’t require a stylus to operate. *collective gasp*
… no, it can’t read your mind. What it does, in fact, is let you operate it with your finger tips, something that I didn’t know anybody wanted (although obviously, everybody must want this thing, otherwise, why would they make it right?)
Yeah, you read that right: your fingertips. You know, like people are already doing with their display-protector-enhanced PocketPCs and Palms. Hell, you could even go all-out and buy one of these wonders, for like what, $5.
But wait! They made a whole new OS for the Jackito (and no, it ain’t called the Pockito), that is “oriented around allowing the Jackito to be used with the fingertips.” Yeah, well, at 600 big ones for a PDA with prehistoric specs and no third-party software, it better be.
This is some serious vaporware we’re looking at, kids. And with its release anticipated to be within the next three months, they’ll have just enough time to realize their mistake.
Or so one would hope.