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Bob Frankston

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From: "Bob Frankston" <Bob19-0...@bobf.frankston.com>

Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:44:14 -0500

Local: Mon, Feb 25 2008 10:44 pm

Subject: RE: [eComm.General] What would your perfect phone be?

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A phone? Why would I want a phone any more than an email machine or the old
HP Workslate (a spreadsheet machine).

Just give me a pocketable generic computer with a haptic interface and I'll
probably run a telephony app on it. But you might not recognize it as a
phone -- especially if I implant audio transducers. Of course I'd also want
one on my wrist so I can use it as a display surface. But then I've already
written about this in Rush Hour 1997
<http://www.frankston.com/?name=RushHour1997> - OK, so it was twenty years
ago and the future ain't want it used to be.

Why would I want children or a phone company telling me how to communicate?
That would be stupid. I already wrote my own WM app to track locations of my
friends -- OK, I did a prototype though not a production version but it's a
pretty simple app -- too bad all that Mashup stuff is confined to big
lumbering desktop PCs because there's no market for small generic computing
devices -- yet.

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Lee
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Subject: [eComm.General] What would your perfect phone be?

Lets start a thread to gather thoughts on what the perfect phone would

be. I'd came across the OHA magic phone video (http://www.youtube.com/

watch?v=jWtFeIw8MVM) which got my mind thinking about gathering more

serious input from others.

I will throw in one just to start with: a perfect phone would help two

parties meeting up to find each other simply by showing Left/Right/

Forward/Back arrows. This would save the ~4 calls I need to place,

getting irratated each time to ask my partner "where exactly are you?"

when we both arrange to meet out somwhere new (her responses are

somewhat vague). It would also be nice if it could show you what mode

of transportation the other person was on (fairly easy to work out I

believe with a cheap accelerometer) - this would mean you would know

when the other person had actuall left the house etc. so you could

factor that in so as not to arrive too early.

I've got plenty more...But lets see what others have in mind.

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