Full QWERTY keyboard for enhanced messaging and social networking Increased screen resolution to QVGA clarity 1.3 megapixel camera with 2x digital zoom Sprint PCS® Picture Mail to shoot, share and print high-resolution digital photos instantly Built-in productivity tools such as planner and scheduler, task list, world clock, alarm clock, calculator and more.
A spinoff from Royal Philips Electronics, iRex Technologies, sells a "work in progress" called the iLiad, which uses the same E Ink technology but offers wireless networking, a bigger screen, 16 shades of gray and a touch screen for scribbling notes, for $700.
For example, 45% of employers reported in a June 2009 CareerBuilder survey that they use social networking sites to screen potential employees.
Mira, another Microsoft initiative, adds wireless networking to computer screens.
But computer monitors don't make great TV screens, networking won't be included in the first version's Christmas release and Microsoft's past TV-in-computers initiatives have failed dismally.
Think of it as social networking without the computer screen or smartphone although the Knowhow twitter feed does help get the word out.
Previous examples include video games, online porn, social networking, anything with a screen, the internet in general, television, books, typewriters, the printing press, the internal combustion engine, carrier pigeons, and that hot orange stuff you get when you rub sticks together that makes raw food dangerously edible.
Short Version: Here we go again: another impressive 7-inch Android tablet with a Gorilla Glass screen, 4G networking, and a suave interface.
Where neonatal screening programmes for sickle cell and haemoglobinopathies are available then networking to obtain neonatal screening results for babies that have undergone prenatal diagnosis, will negate the need for requesting a cord blood sample.
And the beginnings of such a transformation are there, in the consoles' approach to social networking, connectivity, and second screens.
