New Quark on the block

[ka jowct]

Nvidia is using the 3GSM World Congress to demonstrate the Quark, a smartphone which bears no small similarity to the Apple iPhone. This is because of the controls, which are managed almost entirely through the Quark's three-inch touchscreen -- only the power/hold switch is a physical object. Likewise, the phone is particularly focused on media playback, with the ability to run music, photos and videos in a graphically rich environment. A three-megapixel camera actually tops the model found in the iPhone. The Quark as a whole exploits Nvidia's recent GoForce 6100 chipset, which combines GPU and CPU functions, as well as audio and 802.11b/g/i/e wireless. The phone is unlikely to make it into production, but Nvidia technology is already in third-party products.

Does the choice of name seem odd to anyone else? Maybe it doesn't matter, if it's really "unlikely to make it into production".

[laarree]

I for one am looking forward to the InDesign phone to come out,
which will only take one touchscreen button push to do what the
Quark phone needs three pushes to accomplish.

[ka jowct]

for one am looking forward to the InDesign phone to come out,
which will only take one touchscreen button push to do what the
Quark phone needs three pushes to accomplish.


Diehard Quark Phone users will sneer at the drop shadows and transparency in the InDesign Phone's user interface, and complain that they can just dial faster on the Quark Phone.

[laarree]

The Quark phone will require you to dial a 64-digit activation code
before making a phone call.

[the_poochies]

[quote laarree]The Quark phone will require you to dial a 64-digit activation code
before making a phone call.
LOL...Brilliant!

[ka jowct]

The InDesign Phone will only let two authorized persons use it. You will have to deactivate one person if a third person needs to use it.