From: Ad 

http://www.physorg.com/news98525702.html

Ah dear me...after all this time of Rich S decrying the phone.....his
masters may be "thinking different".

"While the PDA has existed as a sort of mini-PC for years, Microsoft
said it would encourage phone manufacturers to formalize the transition of
the phone to a mobile PC through a research initiative called
"Fone+"."


" Microsoft Research chief Craig Mundie said that Microsoft has a
research project called "Fone+" that would allow the phone to
work with a TV as a secondary display, and one that could allow video
stored on the device to be played back on the television.

For Microsoft, the challenge is extending the PC platform into new
applications and form factors. For many years, the WinHEC confeerence here
has served as the underlying foundation for hardware initiatives for the
Tablet PC and the more recent UMPC, both of which have struggled.
Microsoft's penetration into the smartphone market, however, has been more
successful.

"There's no reason that if this thing were hooked up to a large
display that we couldn't watch video in this environment," Mundie
said. "

Gosh you mean display is the problem...?

Go on mah son sort out smart phone displays for the rest of us.....


Adam

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