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Interview - Mobile Repton's developer talks about the latest generation of mobile phones, and why we should be excited about them
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Max Diablos
14/06/02 @ 19:14
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Driving while using a mobile should be a capital offence, no appeal, instant justice.
With the new MI5 friendly mobile phones being able to track you to a ten foot resolution I would've thought that they could automatically prosecute anyone where the phone was detected moving at more than ten miles an hour. Of course there would be problems. But, bus and train positions could be used to filter out non-drivers. Hmmm. |
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Max Diablos
14/06/02 @ 19:42
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...Another thought. Why don't the manufacturers get together and build a console around the ARM chip? I'd be interested in a bluesky feature article from Eurogamer that looked at this area. This idea has more legs than a millipede.
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An interesting article, but a bit short sighted in my opinion - in a year or so the concept of a "mobile phone" will be largely out-dated, and we'll be starting to see the emergence of integrated user equipment. That's where you have the capability and functionality of a high-end PDA with wideband connectivity. So it's all very well coding things in Java but at the end of the day you'll have a "proper" OS running on reasonable hardware with a broadband connection that just happens to make voice calls too.
The point is that this "new generation" of mobile phones is quite likely to be the "last generation" of mobile phones before they become something quite different and significantly more powerful. |
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That's possible, but I'm sure there'll still be a market for conventional mobile phones. If you start adding bigger screens, more buttons, more functions etc it makes the device bulkier, more complex and more expensive. There's something to be said for the simplicity of a (relatively) cheap slim-line mobile that's geared primarily towards voice communications instead of trying to do everything in one box. After all, if people really wanted one machine that did everything we'd all be using those daft Amstrad e-mail machines instead of normal phones.
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in a year or so the concept of a "mobile phone" will be largely out-dated, and we'll be starting to see the emergence of integrated user equipment. That's where you have the capability and functionality of a high-end PDA with wideband connectivity. So it's all very well coding things in Java but at the end of the day you'll have a "proper" OS running on reasonable hardware with a broadband connection that just happens to make voice calls too.
Amajiro, I totally agree, this is what I'm getting excited about in those posts of mine up at the top of the thread. Think of the possibilities! And frankly how much less 'mobile' is a GBA compared to your average GSM phone? I have mine in my pocket pretty much most of the time! |
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girl_gamer
17/06/02 @ 11:05
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Jeex - You're right. The aerial is a problem on the V70 (I still prefer 'The shiny one'!). The opening mechanism is annoying me too. A trade in is definitely in order. I confess that I was entirely swayed by the appearance. Dammit - The girl side got the better of the engineer side.
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>If only the U.S. would use a single digital standard
Gotta love this quote from the Nokia website about GSM: "with around 300 million GSM subscribers currently in Europe and Asia. In the Americas, today's 7 million subscribers are set to grow rapidly" 300:7, and some of them even claim that they're not behind when it comes to mobile phones! |
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