Android PMPs (was: Qi-Hardware Nanonote group purchase?)

David Rysdam david at rysdam.org
Thu Sep 9 09:10:30 EDT 2010


An agent or agents purporting to be Tom Buskey said:
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
> > <rozzin at geekspace.com> wrote:
> > > (Oh, and: is there a better shorthand than "PMP"? I keep reading
> > > "android pimps", and it just... doesn't sit right...)
> >
> >   PIMEED.[1]
> >
> > -- Ben
> >
> > [1] Portable Individual Media Experience Enablement Device.  Now
> > available with Genuine People Personalities!  Only from Sirius
> > Cybernetics Corporation!
> >
> >
> MID - Mobile Internet Device.  See SmartQ, CrunchTablet, even the Archos
> devices.
> 
> PMP is a Portable Music Player.  Most MIDs can do music.
> 
> If the Palm PDAs had WiFi, they'd qualify as MIDs. 

Which kind of proves that's not the right name for the category.  I
just call them "tiny computers" or "portable computers".  And one day,
that will sound as strange as "electronic computers" does today.


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