Bring on the Mobile Pants
Yes, I admit it. I hand a pair of Mobile Pants. I carried a handspring visor in them. Strangely, the add for them still exists: http://www.dockers.com/mobilesitelet/flash/mobilePantFrame.html even though the product does not appear to. This web ghost site must be about 7 years old.
Anyway, I think the mobile pant is needed again and also the mobile shirt. Have you seen a UMPC? They really are NOT ultra mobile. They range from a Samsung Q1 to the Nokia N800. The Nokia is less than a quarter the size (easier to use, too). Even so, neither fit in a shirt pocket. And that's the problem.
If you carry the UMPC or the PDA in your pocket, you will scratch the screen with your keys. Shirt pockets are not deep enough. If in your jacket, you will leave it behind when you need it. Every now and then Motorola tries fashion and helps make mp3 sunglasses or such for a ridiculous price. Perhaps the vendors could get hip and team up with a young company to make real clothing so that real people could actually carry the devices they hope you to use.
This is not a joke. If you cannot easily carry and access a UMPC, you won't use one. The whole point of them is for use on the go (powered by wimax, of course, not that inferior nomadic cousin called wifi)- "always on". Let's keep the whole picture of the user in mind when developing products and make them really usable.
