iPhone
This is just a concept video, but it’s the best idea for a cell phone / media player / browser that I’ve seen yet.
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May 2006
This is just a concept video, but it’s the best idea for a cell phone / media player / browser that I’ve seen yet.
nathan
Yeah Cait – every summer since 1979.
Cait
When you were a real cowboy?
nathan
I hear you Niqkita – I actually sewed my own little pouch/bag that hooks onto my belt with a special pocket for my phone, my Shuffle, smokes, my wallet and various cards… I hate stuffing my pockets full of stuff and I really hate carrying a bunch of junk around “just in case”…
Back when I was a real cowboy I only carried a pack of Lucky Strikes, a half-eaten can o’ beans and the fierceness in my own two eyes… those were the days.
niqkita
yeah, what you guys said…
If something doesn’t change spon I’m going to go from seeking clothing with at least one pocket to clothes with many pockets, cargo pants I spose. Or a decent bag/purse that is not onlyt stylish, but padded with many pockets…
nathan
Yeah + word is cell phones are becoming credit cards in the near future… so you can swipe your phone instead of carrying a card around.
olivia
Personally I look forward to the day that I dont need to pack a light-weight PDA, a small cellphone an mp3 player and a GPS system into my pockets when I want to go on a roadtrip, or just shopping out of town. I’d like to have it all in one so that all I need to carry with me is the gadget and a credit card. I dont mind having a small PDA with Windows that does it all with a handsfree headset for listening to music and making calls. And when Im sitting on the bus I can use it to chat to friends on IM and check my emails.
I want to have all the basics, all in one. And if I want to bring a truly specialized device with me as well – like say a 4 megapixel cameraphone, I can bring it too. But I still want to get by just fine with the one device.
julie
yea, that’s totally cool, and I think you are one user profile. I just wish all companies would make more devices that aren’t trying to be everything to everyone. =)
nathan
I definitely agree – all I was saying was that I use my cell phone a ton – phone calls, SMSing friends or for Google searches (useful for finding a pizza joint when you’re in the North Hills, or the phone number for the Port Authority when standing in the freezing cold without paying for 411), plus I use it to check Gmail pretty often and try and look up how to get from point A to point B on Google Maps. I also use it to read Wired articles or Yummy while I’m on the road and there’s nothing much else to do…
I think that if my phone could be a decent mp3 player, I’d have it all, and my phone isn’t even that spectacular.
But it’s frustrating-to-impossible to reply to emails on it, or to try and look at your average, not-specifically-made-for-mobiles web pages. When it comes to straight up browsing, I think I get enough of that from home with my laptop – when I finally break free of the confines of my home I’m usually good without the Internet for awhile…(albeit a short while)
julie
mmm, no, I really want my cellphone separate from Web browsing. I don’t want to hold up some big clunky thing to my ear when I’m trying to make a phone call, and I don’t really want my phone to be my carry-everywhere web browser because I want my phone to be small and I don’t want my browsing to be small. Maybe that’s just me. but I was really rooting for the UMPC craze, before it turned all Trump-tasticilly priced.
I’m more for having a few devices that do a few dedicated things really well. I want a cell phone/MP3 player. I want a UMPC. I want a desktop. And I want a portable GPS system, like what Blake was talking about the other night. I think when device makers start to lose track of the user profile/ purposes of the device, and start saying, “well, wouldn’t it be cool if it could do this and this and this and this” then that’s where the devices start to fail.
I think companies should start rethinking their devices and making it very clear that each device is for a more specific user profile. Maybe a PDA with cell phone access is good for someone who doesn’t use their cell phone often. But I don’t use my cell a whole lot, and I still don’t want to be talking on a clunky PDA, because any PDA that you would want to use to edit a spreadsheet is far too clunky to talk on, IMO.
Of course, in a perfect world, that Apple phone would be exactly as is, and everything would be completely and easily legible and it would still be small and sleek.
nathan
Yeah – the browser feature would be most useful for looking up Google Maps on the road, or just checking email while you’re waiting in line for Tampax at the local Slippy Pop.
olivia
I just want a pda with Windows on it that I can use as a cellphone.
julie
That would be sweet. I wonder how far off we are. I think I still want my browsing separate (the UMPC would be ideal, if it weren’t so outrageously priced, because I hate eyestrain), but I would like a sleek, integrated, cell phone/MP3 player.