It depends on the person who asks, (specifically their tech-awareness), but within that, if I don't have time or don't want to get into a conversation, I call it a mini-computer; if I want to get into a conversation about it, I call it a mini linux box.

I too have seen some people get turned off when they hear that it doesn't have a phone, but you can mention that it does connect through a cel phone. Some people aren't really tech types and those people aren't ones who can see the value of carrying around a computer in your pocket, which, if you want to mention it, opens up lots of possibilities, so you can talk about adjusting your DVR from wherever, (that's lost its edge since these cel-phone commercials where a bank is being robbed and a customer decides to program his DVR while laying on the floor, so I'll have to come up with something else, but the point is made).

The next question -- from less techy types -- is, "is that like an iPhone?" to which I respond along the lines of: "Kind of, but the iPhone is much more polished whereas this device has far more capabilities, and all the software is available to be re-programmed or adusted in any way, which opens up more than you'd think at first. So it's a trade-off between consumerish-ness and capabilities."


Joe