I thought about this similar to what Dave Malouf had mentioned at first - the phone being a removable part of the net-book.
Seeing it from another angle, rather making it a removable part from a net-book, how if it were a pluggable to a net-book or any other porting station (not sticking only to a net-book here). The porting station could be a net-book, or a full sized desktop workstation, or a work computer at office, or just anybody else s home computer. While the compactness of the mobile can be enjoyed as is primarily on the move, users can optionally plug it (or slide like those PCMCIA cards) to a net-book shell that got its 10", optimal keyboard usability. Or it could be plugged to the desktop workstation at home or office with a really wide high res screen and full sized regular keyboard. The point is, the mobile phone becomes primary operating device containing full power providing mobile ability when needed, maybe with limited usability, but users always get the option to choose how they want to use the computing power on a scaled secondary physical device. Imagine a new avatar of i-phone that Apple says you can plug it to their net-book shell or desktop shell... You can carry the i-phone when you want to, and to use as a net-book you plug it to the net-book shell, and when at home, plug it to the CPU deck and start using the full comfortable keyboard with high resolution screen. Revisiting the basic block diagram, I see the CPU has to be "pluggable" to scalable input(keyboard) and output(display) devices. This could mean a new interesting bond among mobile, processor, hardware, OS manufacturers :) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44734 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
