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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