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

Tony Williams wrote:
> Adam > wrote:
> [...]
>> 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.
>
> Pretty much the way I see it turning out too. The biiig problem is still
> battery life for the mobile - power consumption goes up linearly with
> clock speed (more or less, but it's a good rule of thumb), and we're
> still waiting for batteries that are small and cheap enough to cope in a
> handheld.
>

Yup.

(A) why I'd like to be able to manage the radio through the UI so If I
don't need the radio I can turn the lot off or I can just have phone or
just Wifi etc.

(B) Other than radio I don't think that the power will outstrip the
batteries simply coz the h/w makers up till now have favoured battery life
over cpu speed etc & what with persistent RAM coming in steadily I
think storage power requirements may well drop.


> No reason for the docking station to be a physical connection though. Do
> the lot over the airwaves.
>

Except charging & if you've got to plugin in a USB cable to charge the
unit.....then use a powered hub et voila 

Adam

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