andrewducker | Visions of The Future

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andrewducker

Mine survived having water spilt on it the other day - but it wouldn't survive real punishment. I know there are laptops that will - but mobile phones really don't do that well, so far as I've seen.

Interesting idea though.

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I think the whole idea of modern technology is that it's office based and never has to go into the big bad world. I have a small field laptop that's ancient (I think it has windows 2000!), is compact and appears to be made of titanium, but the battery hardly lasts so I have to carry three with me.

My work mobile phone (a Nokia 6310), which is fairly useless functionality, but the best model of the ones I was offered for surviving reality. I want one that lets me get my emails, but I just don't think it would last five minutes outside.

(the rest of my field kit geekery: Garmin GPS, Spot Tracker, and an O2 Meter :> Actually, my garmin is f*cking awesome, last week everyone had flashy big GPS with OS map displays but couldn't get a signal and had to work out their locations with bearings; my little yellow thing with a monochrome display was getting 4m accuracy under total tree canopy. ha! ha! ha!)