One thing I would like to see is a clam shell smart phone. I like my flip
phone. It never pocket dials anyone, and the screen is always well
protected. The only problem is I cant play angry birds or check my email.
Here is a prototype Randal Monroe was working on http://www.xkcd.com/1372/ .




Cody Smith

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Jim Gattiker <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> What's next for phones? Size seems settled. Screen quality is now tapped
> out. Battery life is at a wall. Cameras are there. Local storage space lost
> to cloud services. They're pretty powerful, for a non-gamer. What's going
> to make me covet my next phone? (force touch!)
>
> Someone will tell me there is such a thing, but: why don't I have a
> thin-client similar to a netbook (or tablet) that expands my phone when
> it's in proximity? I have duplicated internals on my phone, tablet, and
> laptop. It looks to me like all the pieces, hardware and software, are
> there to do this today for android (and it could be prototyped: BlueStacks
> <http://www.bluestacks.com/>). The phone is just the smallest central
> module in an ecosystem of UI devices, rather than one stand-alone device of
> many. I'd go for that!
>
>    --j
>
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