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 > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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