TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: osdebate
to: Geo.
from: Randall Parker
date: 2007-05-19 21:42:18
subject: Re: Your next PC is... a phone

From: Randall Parker 

Geo. wrote:
> When are they going to add an FM radio to a celphone?
>
> Geo. (oh right, no way to do a monthly extra charge for that so what's
> the point)

Geo,

You don't have to buy your cellphone from the company that you buy your cellular
service from, right? So why wouldn't cellphone makers offer options like FM?

Also, if you take pictures with your cellphone do some cellphones have a USB or other
jack so that you can download the pictures to a PC without going paying to send the
pictures thru the cellular network?

>
> "Rich"  wrote in message news:464d2b66$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>   I don't decry the phone.  I very much like my smartphone.  It's not a
> PC replacement and not even close.  That's not to say a future one
> couldn't be closer.  What is reported below is not the phone replacing
> the PC as much as being a portable media player.  The actual article
> describes other specialty applications not the general purpose
> functionality of a PC.
>
> Rich
>
>

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5
* Origin: Barktopia BBS Site http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45)
SEEN-BY: 633/267
@PATH: 379/45 1 633/267

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.