Comment Improve the phone side (Score 1) 301
I see what he's going for... this is basically the old Apple DuoDock concept applied to a phone, where the phone is the core device and you can use a bigger, less-conveniently-sized device to extend the utility a bit. [And yes, as I was writing this I noticed this comparison has been made elsewhere by now]
Great.
How about instead of obex and proprietary and this and that, "they" start making cell phones that "just appear" within one's device landscape? For example, when I place my cell phone near my computer, shouldn't I be able to just sync it up [didn't Palm get that ball rolling, and didn't SyncML un-motivate universal device sync...], share the display [ala those little sidecar lcd screens popping up on the outside of laptops and messenger bags now for Vista] and in both directions, have the phone keyboard appear as another UID, storage mounts as a disk, etc etc etc.
I know some of this is possible if you're running Windows and you've installed the right proprietary warez, but for those of us unencumbered by Microsoft OS products, it's catch as catch can.
How about a smart phone that implements wireless USB and the appropriate device class stuff so that I can use my future Nokia N10K or Treo 999l or whatever for all that stuff above. Hell, just mounting the filesystem when my phone and desktop or laptop are near each other without jumping through hoops would be sweet. I would buy that phone yesterday if it existed. Until then, it's openobex and quirky bluetooth connections and mild disappointment with the state of the "smart phone" world.
Great.
How about instead of obex and proprietary and this and that, "they" start making cell phones that "just appear" within one's device landscape? For example, when I place my cell phone near my computer, shouldn't I be able to just sync it up [didn't Palm get that ball rolling, and didn't SyncML un-motivate universal device sync...], share the display [ala those little sidecar lcd screens popping up on the outside of laptops and messenger bags now for Vista] and in both directions, have the phone keyboard appear as another UID, storage mounts as a disk, etc etc etc.
I know some of this is possible if you're running Windows and you've installed the right proprietary warez, but for those of us unencumbered by Microsoft OS products, it's catch as catch can.
How about a smart phone that implements wireless USB and the appropriate device class stuff so that I can use my future Nokia N10K or Treo 999l or whatever for all that stuff above. Hell, just mounting the filesystem when my phone and desktop or laptop are near each other without jumping through hoops would be sweet. I would buy that phone yesterday if it existed. Until then, it's openobex and quirky bluetooth connections and mild disappointment with the state of the "smart phone" world.
