what we want (to manufactures)

[spzero]

post any accesories that you want hopefully some manufacturer will read this as as yet there is little avaiable except screen protectors so heres an idea

how about a case that protects the shift but heres the clever partwith a solar panel built in so it will charge and thus extend the battery life of this amazing machine?

any other ideas ?

[Pawel062]

post any accesories that you want hopefully some manufacturer will read this as as yet there is little avaiable except screen protectors so heres an idea

how about a case that protects the shift but heres the clever partwith a solar panel built in so it will charge and thus extend the battery life of this amazing machine?

any other ideas ?

how about also shrinking it to size of athena and when bac in use makes it same size. would make it pocketable though

[fatouraee]

i dont know if any one is fammiliar with the company called incase...
they have great cases for iphone.. hard rubber silicon. I hope they can come out with something like that for athena....
or most phones.

My family own a plastic manufacturing company in middle east. i might have to check with them to see about manufacturing some accessories....

[Madhadder]

i dont know if any one is fammiliar with the company called incase...
they have great cases for iphone.. hard rubber silicon. I hope they can come out with something like that for athena....


Or do what the rest of us Athena Owners have done, get yourself a
"Tuff as Nuts" case.. Much better build quality.

[n646464]

how about a case that protects the shift but heres the clever partwith a solar panel built in so it will charge and thus extend the battery life of this amazing machine?

any other ideas ?

Hey about that solor panel, you may want to check out this...

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/voltaics-new-generator-solar-bag-can-charge-a-laptop/

[spzero]

Hey about that solor panel, you may want to check out this...

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/voltaics-new-generator-solar-bag-can-charge-a-laptop/

HOW MUCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mlalahoi]

First, there has got to be a slick docking station similar the one for OQO 2. Lan port, 3 usb, optical drive, vga out, PCMIA slot, and throw in a big ass battery to charge the Shift from when the onboard goes dry. Long trips you can bring the docking/charing station. A shoulder bag for this would be great as well, 7" screen isn;t going to fit in the pocket so nicely, but a minimal stylish shoulder bag could work pretty well.
Of course, accessories won't matter if nonbody buys it cause the GPS and voice are disabled ;) Really, without GPS, voice, and the ability for both OS's to access all the storage resources you are going to have to carry a phone anyway so why would you buy this and not a cheap mini-laptop for half as much?

[mw65719]

a car charger
a car cradle

[dinscurge]

how bout a hard case with a flat bottom and holes for vents and ports on sides so its usuable on lap, and solar panel not so much to get it 12volts id have to cover the whole screen and even then id tske hours to chage like 6 or 7 so id basically be usuless in less u sit outside in bright sun all day and dont want to see anything in less it flipped up that might work then i block sun out too to cut black glare,

[nicolas.maigne]

i would love..

a battery around 4000 ma even with a bigger cover.
...maybe an official upgrade of wm side, by paying the full licence but with a good implementation of qualcom grafic drivers :)

finaly.. if ppctechs could provide a 256 ram update , plus a micro sd slot . they can do it

[YannR]

I believe HTC Shift will have probably a short life cycle... As this is their first "rather mature" product of this kind. They are surveying the market, know the design flaws and specification mitakes. The next one should be now specified at 80% already.
I'm confident we will see lot of improvements on the device itself (but this is not the topic of this thread). Let's focus on accessories as this is also a weak area when comes to HTC Shift offer. From HTC, I just see the following:
- Extended Battery (for heavy user and because... this is a great margin generator. :rolleyes:).
- Docking Station (more USB ports, VGA output, Ethernet).
Third party manufacturers can take care of the rest (Car Craddle/Charger, Cases, ...) but they will do it only if the next product has good sales or benefits from strong HTC support. Due to short HTC SHift life cycle, I dont think HTC is pushing hard for having partners making accessories.