Hands-on with modu: it's real and plenty fantastic

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Anthony @ Feb 12th 2008 12:49PM

Long, long ago & a land far, far away (Texas) I sat on a panel where we saw prototypes of something very similar for televisions where you bought plugins to make them computers, game consoles, phones, etc like PCI cards.

That never caught on because various makers didn't want to cut into their profit, I believe.

Could this be the same for Modu? Why would Nokia want to provide "jackets" when they can sell you the whole suit @ a higher margin?

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shakman @ Feb 12th 2008 1:14PM

This rings a bell...

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe ARM were also involved in these discussions. It was some time around 1994 if I remember correctly. I remember discussing the possibilities with an Acorn Computers engineer (Acorn were heavily tied in with ARM back then - the Acorn RiSC PC was a powerhouse desktop based on the StrongARM chip) whilst I was fortunate enough to do some work experience with them in Australia during my schooling years.

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