From: Adam Flinton 

Randy wrote:
> 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.
>

I have no doubt that they could fit the chips etc into a pda/smartphone.
However.....big screen = big device & you want big screen + small
device....

So....(A) folding screen (b) Small screen close to the eye (e.g. as
"screenglasses") (c) as a projecter onto a surface (e.g. wall,
desk etc) or finally (d) very small new vid-out port for connection to std
monitor.

BTW wrt (b) I was shown one a while back as a prototype where the glasses
were polarized electrically & thus a bit like the
"reacto-light" sunglasses they could darken "at will".
I.e. you could have a control much like a volume control for how much
"backlighting" you wanted.


Adam



> "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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