From: "Randy" 

Better displays are needed, but in the PDA space they're geting there
vis-a-vis Dell x50v and HP hx4700. And the son of the Hiptop Danger and the
latest HTC/Moto/LG phones with micro-sized embedded keyboards are starting
to have a life of their own.

The Smartphone space is gonna get interesting with Nokia and Samsung
starting to deploy multi-gigabyte storage.

"Adam"  wrote in message
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> Randy wrote:
>
>> My device is the Audiovox SMT 5600-over on your side of the planet it's
>> known as the Orange SPV C500. It replaced my recently lost Motorola
>> MPx220.
>>
>> Even though both are based on WM2300SE, the HTC implementation seem to be
>> less buggy than the Motorola. I miss the flip factor and having easy
>> access to the miniSD slot (the HTC buries it under the battery), but I
>> gain Bluetooth voice dailing (which the Moto does not do, although the
>> Moto does implement speaker-independent voice dialing)
>>
> I looked at smartphones (e.g. the tmobile ones etc) & (A) The Nokia was
> free & (B) It actually did everything I wanted.....though I was taken by
> the "own another coomputer" deep down hunte-gatherer drive .
>
> I am going to give the smartphones another year or 2 of cooking by which
> point I reckon they will be the std PC anyway i.e. more people will have
> them as their "personal computer" than the intel 8086 derivatives most
> consider PC'es today. At that point the 8x86 will be home servers etc.
>
> All that's needed is a way of doing external displays. I was looking at a
> mate's POcket PC thingy & has has a bluetooth keyboard & mouse so along
> with USB (via mini-usb) IO seems taken care of.
>
> My mate wants a kinda projector device.....
>
>
> Adam

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