Organization:Quill

Quill is an electronics company founded by Steve Jobs in 12012 GHE.

qTalk
The original qTalk was launched in 12013 GHE. It was a beige clamshell cell phone with no screen and small rubber buttons, built to be as affordable yet durable as possible. It sold relatively well, but was infamous for the buttons wearing out after a couple years of use.

After complaints, Quill replaced the rubber buttons with plastic braille buttons free of charge, lending the device a nature of longevity it originally did not have.

Original qTalks required a 2G cell tower to function, and no longer work without modifications. Quill currently offers a retrofit of first-generation qTalks to use Xtended Reality for voice transmission, including Neuric transmission.

qTalk (12014)
The qTalk as most people know it is about an inch thick, three inches wide and 6 inches long. It had a stylus-activated touch screen that was 2.5 inches wide and 4 inches long, framed by the colorful plastic case that was shaped into a form best described as laying a cylinder down on its circumference and squashing it until the ends were oval-shaped.

The qTalk has full Xtended Reality support, allowing voice and video transmission without relying on Old Real cell network standards.

qTop
On September 10 of 12016 GHE, Quill released the qTop at a retail price of ¢15,000 COINs exclusively in licensed retail stores. Instead of stuffing a full-fledged computer into a plastic dome like the iMac G4, the qTop's dome only housed the electronics necessary to make the qTop a stylish and long-lived computer terminal, including USB-C 4.0 ports as well as a slot-loading optical drive capable of reading and writing Blu-Ray discs, DVDs and CDs.

The iconic optical disk slot and translucent plastic casing, all of which had LEDs that made the qTop glow according to user preferences, gave the qTop a luxurious and futuristic yet nostalgic styling. The touch screen, despite being framed with bulky kaybug-styled plastic, was similar to that of an iPad or Android tablet and supported by a robotic arm. Two touch-sensitive power button could be found on the backing of each lower corner of the screen, with the pressing of one putting the qTop into sleep mode and the pressing of both triggering an emergency shutdown.

Built-in webcams and microphones were outlawed from being included on desktop computer systems and televisions in the New Real. As a result, a quirk of the qTop was that the webcam/microphone were inside the VidModule docked with the top edge of the LCD screen, and could be replaced by third-party webcams or microphones designed for the VidModule connector.

New users were most annoyed that the system would not function without an afternet connection, mainly due to the complete lack of accompanying networking technologies in the New Real. Most of the connectivity was via a Power Line Communication (PLC) link in the power cable, with other transceivers such as the built-in Bluetooth 5.0 transceiver, LTE and 5G data transceivers, li-fi transceiver, and a GPS receiver also playing various roles in the qTop's capabilities. Aside from the highly useful connectivity with GPS satellites and Bluetooth peripherals, these transceivers were essentially an electric lamp in an 1800's home. This forced users to default to using an ethernet cable, instead of expensive cell tower bandwidth, or PLC connections only available to homes that are equipped with Electr-O-Mag walls, a rarity with older homes and the earliest Modular Housing Units.

Even more ahead of its time was the li-fi system. The photo-detector was built into the VidModule, while the decorative LED lighting doubled as an array of li-fi transmitters. The li-fi network could provide 96 Mbit/s wireless bandwidth, if only the required fiber-optic network infrastructure existed from home to server.

The qTop client software connects to servers within the Library of Virtually Everything, which host user profiles of the ExTen Distributed Operating System. This meant that as upgrades were made to the ExTenD OS servers, the qTop would get progressively faster, instead of growing obsolete. At least, in theory.