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My Ultra Mobile Computing Wish List

The New York Times published an article today about Intel's drive to push mobile computing to a new level. Dubbed Ultra Mobile Computing (UMC) or as Intel prefers to call it "Mobile Internet Device" (boring.) Qualcomm's chief operating officer, Sanjay Jha used the even less imaginative term "pocketable computers" all of which to describe a class of mobile computers that promises to do everything.

I personally would love to see real UMC's on the market...the only catch is it needs the following and should be almost small enough to fit in my pocket.

My UMC Most Wanted:
1. Ultra high resolution OLED touch screen
2. Fully integrated GPS (antenna inside device)
3. Mobile Phone (2G and 3G fully supported)
4. Digital Camera
5. Digital Video Recorder
6. Analog and Digital HD T.V Tuner
7. Digital FM, FM, AM and Satillite receivers
7. Wi-Max, Wi-Fi (802.11a - 802.11n), Bluetooth and IR
8. BlueRay and HD DVD RW drive
9. 1TB HDD or SSD
10. Supports all standard multimedia formats and document formats
11. Live synch capbailities
12. microphone

The device I envision should be able verify the owner by voice and retinal scan and then obey commands via voice recognition to produce live video that includes current location information and have GIS data superimposed that can then be uploaded as a live stream to a Web page regardless of my location in the world.

Things to add in ver 2.0
Personal Area Network Connectivity
acceleration/force sensors
gyroscope

With all of the integrated devices this thing has got to be completely programmable.



What's on your wish list? Did I leave anything off the list besides price

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