From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Tony Williams wrote:
>> More:
>>
>> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2986976174.html
>>
>
> Aha!
>
>> Similarly, the phone's quad-band GSM/GPRS module, built by FIC, runs
>> the proprietary Nucleus OS on a Texas Instruments baseband powered by
>> an ARM7 core. It communicates with Linux over a serial port, using
>> standard "AT" modem commands.
>
> So it's still a dual CPU design and the real phone stack is under lock
> and key. A nice device nonetheless.
>

yup. So long as you can programatically turn off the phone stack when not needed.....

I worked for a while for vodaphone on the strand & I have a mate who's
still there & he's been trialling a Wifi phone thingy &

(A) it turns out in london there are sufficient wifi hotspots running in an
"open" manner that franky he's almost always within range of one
of them as he wanders about (which is humorous wrt the mobiphone co'es
& the cash they shelled out for 3G) &

(B) the "da" part of voda is coming back to the fore as most of
these smartphones will be able to do voip & the mobile phone co's have
realised it's a rising tide & there's no point being canute. The idea
is that vodaphone et al will be effectively your "wireless
provider" much as BT has positioned itself to be your "wired
provider" whether that's Internet, TV, voice etc.

So...5 years from now your smartphone becomes an TCP/IP wireless device
period & your contract with t-mobile/vodaphone etc will be a "as
much as you can eat for UKœ30 per month" variety.

At that point I reckon smartphones will in effect take over coz in 5
years.....1gb of ram, 30-100 gb persistent storage, chip speeds in the ghz
range?

You'll probably get a "docking station" much as used to be common
wrt laptops so you can have your mouse, keyboard, vdu etc all plugged in
& ready to go.

Adam

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