Knowledge Brings Fear

Blog hardware

I get the feeling that it is time for some small portable blogging hardware that can be used in the train, while waiting or whereever. I have the best ideas then. But wrestling the notebook from the backpack under the prying eyes of the greedy youth next to me seems not the wisest choice. Plus I carry the notebook often, but not allways.
Assuming that I wont have the necessary spare money for a bloggers luxury item for some months to come, I opted for a slow and determined process of reviewing the current and future aviable hardware for the purpose.

Requirements

Desireable requirements from my point of view would be:

Hardware

- form factor of max 15 x 10 x 3 cm
- a not too flimsy keyboard,
- a display of at least 640x240,
- builtin or plugable WLAN,
- Bluetooth (preferably builtin)
- a Cam of at least 640x480 pixel
- battery lifetime of 72 days under expected blogger use patterns
- non-volatile memory in case the battery fails
- at least 128Mbyte free memory
- some port, slot or connectivity to add GPS (of course builtin would be preferable)

Software (does not need to be part of the product, availability for the device is sufficient)

- a ssh2 client
- a SSL 128bit capable webbrowser
- a blog software that allows for preparation of entries including pictures, to be synched when WLAN is available or via Bluetooth and GPRS in emergency
- IM client that supports AIM and jabber
- a IMAP4 capable e-mail client
- a WebDAV client

Of course I would prefer to buy such a device from Apple, but given their negative past experiences with PDAs I dont hold my breath waitng for the wonder.