Device: - LTE & voice over LTE .. and as a - software radio which updates easily to new mobile services. - pholdable phablet? - 2 week battery life - More manufacturers like the OnePlus. $650+ phones? Nurts! Carriers: - Coverage! - Tethering-is stunts so one account for all internet. - As Roger showed the other day, a serious cloud services approach - Therefore less storage required (nuts to have 64GB phones!) - Sensible plans like Google's Fi - International everything, no more buying SIMs for travel! OS: - Better interoperability - Way better voice integration.
Way too much. Gotta stop! In a word, I want the dam things to always work, everywhere, and stop being so annoying! -- Owen On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Jim Gattiker <j.gatti...@gmail.com> 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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