iPhone Netbook Coming? Yes Says OLO
Got an iPhone? Well, a company called OLO wants to change the way you use your iPhone. If you’ve been itching to pick up a small netbook for mobility and you have an iPhone (or want one), OLO is working towards integrating the iPhone into a netbook. According to the company, its netbook shell allows an iPhone to be integrated and used as a laptop-like device, with a large LCD screen and keyboard.
Netbooks are hot and many of the top manufacturers are coming out with them. The iPhone is an extremely versatile device, so it’s no surprise that OLO is working on a netbook shell.
On OLO’s website however, the company displays a picture of a netbook with an iPhone slotted in where a trackpad would normally go. This works out well since the iPhone’s screen is touch sensitive anyway. However, the larger LCD in the picture displays a screen of Mac OS X Leopard for desktops — which is not the same user interface on the iPhone.
Apple has touted the iPhone as an OS X device, but even so, the video output on the iPhone displays what its screen displays and nothing else. It will also be interesting to see if the resolution of the OLO device will be the same as the iPhone. The iPhone has a screen resolution of 480-by-320 but its video output is capable of 576p, which isn’t actually up to standard high-def 720p yet, but it’s better than a DVD.
If OLO ships the device, it will be no bigger than an Asus EeePC.
There’s only a "Coming Soon" message on OLO’s site, but we suspect the shell isn’t difficult to develop, since all the computing hardware is on the iPhone itself.
Google’s Android platform may be suitable for something along the lines of what OLO is doing as well. We wouldn’t be surprised to see an enterprising modder come up with a similar concept for Android phones.
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I have a friend who bought an EeePC to run MS Office 2000, Photoshop, CorelDraw released before year 2000 for his small publication business.
I don't think that he'll be looking at shiny rich-kid toy since his revenue is diminishing due to shrinking consumer market.
Only Cheapo crap that can leech money from all sources can win in any near future. Android will win while iPhone will go extinct. That's called natural selection of consumer market.
pretty cool. i wonder if it will extend battery life
So what does picture saying "your PC is out" has to do with this article ? toms continuing apple's get a mac campaign ???
who pays for this ?
So what does picture saying "your PC is out" has to do with this article ? toms continuing apple's get a mac campaign ???who pays for this ?
The picture is from OLO's website, geez
I dont think this would be a good idea though, because of the low resolution of the iphone... and then i bet it would cost a lot of money to get this notebook thing and you will have to have an iphone ?
just too expensive, id rather buy a more versatile notebook for cheaper....
One of the biggest issue (to me at least) is that using this method this Netbook can only surf websites which does not support Flash, since the iPhone currently does not support Flash.
I think the number one goal for a Netbook is that it has to display all websites... thus browser compatibility is a must.
I sorta don't see what this netbook is going to do. It looks nice in theory, and Apple could make it. A netbook that can share the iphone's internet connection, and perhaps even processing power could be extremely useful. I just don't see OLO making anything other than a netbook with a glorified dock.
Isn't this just what Palm attempted to do with the Folio?