if what kormac is predicting is correct, this will be possible (and may well happen). he's talking about frameworks for a home network, which i imagine allows for devices to connect in a seamless way -- think Rendezvous.
Imagine the phone re-engineered with PDA like savvy. BT syncing with contact info. Display with virual rolodex. iPodeque user interface. Call by address or Call by IM. Texting, Email delivery in homes with RendezVous. Free VoIP calls.
Want one? Want one enough to pay $150
It is quite quite doable by a company like Apple....
It was done, by Siemens, and was built around a Newton design. Very few are known to be in existence.
I've often asked, Why are phones, and phone systems, so stupid? The only answer appears to be, that's what buyers are expecting.
Whoa - museumtastic! John Logie Baird was one of the first to market with a commercial television. It had a 40line 4" screen. The rasterization was performed by a gigantic rotating mechanical disk. Not many of those were sold either.
I think a more modern design of phone (and television) could still catch on.
If you did want to make a smart deskphone which could work independently of a PC then the right place to start would be a network aware OS running on an Arm chip or similar. From an engineering standpoint, the project would not be a million miles from PDA development.
no. no. no. it would only be a 4gig so... that would put it right at the 300 mark? beating out the palm?? But what about WiFi???
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Originally posted by iDunno
Using Australian prices here, but an iBook is $1695, and the 40gig iPod is $799, so should we assume the PDA would fit in between? If so, I would rather just the iBook. It would be much cheaper and easier to just carry around a little pencil and notepad.
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Originally posted by Carniphage
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Imagine the phone re-engineered with PDA like savvy. BT syncing with contact info. Display with virual rolodex. iPodeque user interface. Call by address or Call by IM. Texting, Email delivery in homes with RendezVous. Free VoIP calls.
Want one? Want one enough to pay $150
It is quite quite doable by a company like Apple....
It was done, by Siemens, and was built around a Newton design. Very few are known to be in existence.
I've often asked, Why are phones, and phone systems, so stupid? The only answer appears to be, that's what buyers are expecting.
Originally posted by cubist
[B]It was done, by Siemens, and was built around a Newton design. Very few are known to be in existence.
You mean this: http://newted.dyndns.org/gallery/notephone/0005.html
Whoa - museumtastic! John Logie Baird was one of the first to market with a commercial television. It had a 40line 4" screen. The rasterization was performed by a gigantic rotating mechanical disk. Not many of those were sold either.
I think a more modern design of phone (and television) could still catch on.
If you did want to make a smart deskphone which could work independently of a PC then the right place to start would be a network aware OS running on an Arm chip or similar. From an engineering standpoint, the project would not be a million miles from PDA development.
Carni
Originally posted by iDunno
Using Australian prices here, but an iBook is $1695, and the 40gig iPod is $799, so should we assume the PDA would fit in between? If so, I would rather just the iBook. It would be much cheaper and easier to just carry around a little pencil and notepad.
Les.