Hi > With virtually every movie that depicts an even slightly futuristic > world showing video telephony, it's no surprise that some people do > start to believe that this will be part of the future ... > > With that in mind, we could ask ourselves what are the roads not > taken in the "guided evolution" of the mobile phone, because they > led away from that perceived holy grail. Then put the creative > energy not wasted on chasing Apple into doing something that's > really groundbreaking.
Interesting observation :-) So, what did science fiction *miss* ? I've always been amazed by the 1-on-1 nature of phone calls. Perhaps that made sense in the time of landlines and switchboards, but nowadays, especially in an office environment, you find yourself calling 5 people one after another just to get an appointment fixed (or rather, you'd do it by email-or-something, which supports multiple recipients. but then, that gets confusing because of the asynchrone responses .. ) Ofcourse, you cant expect people to jump into a conference call every moment. But if you could 'add' a person during a call, that would help. It would be possible if only one of the connected devices could do that. just dreaming.. *-pike _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
