Android PMPs

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> writes:
>
> An agent or agents purporting to be Tom Buskey said:
> > > 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...)
[...]
> > 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.

Yes.

> I just call them "tiny computers" or "portable computers".  And one
> day, that will sound as strange as "electronic computers" does
> today.

Looking back..., I think they were actually called "palmtops"
(or "palmtop computers", if you like longhand) when they were
first introduced in the late 1980s.

Maybe we can try that, again.

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