Linked by Andrew Davis on Mon 1st Nov 2004 19:52 UTC
Recent news has covered the release of many new smart phones. We have the new Treo650, the new Sony P910, the new Audiovox PPC 6000, the new Blackberry 7100, and the new Nokia 6670. Recently, I've been speaking via email almost daily with my AT&T (now Cingular) rep. For some reason, the conversation always steers towards his wanting to push the latest from Nokia, Blackberry, etc.
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I personally don't think a phone that is capable of SSH is a really strong or broad selling point. I'm techno geaky myself but the last think I would ever want to do would be sysadmin stuff using a phone to type a lot of stuff in.
I think a smart phone is a neat cool idea but I can't justify the price they are charging. $600 is just too much for a phone. I was quite surprised to find that my normal Nokia was a perfectly good contact manager.
I think that when smart phone screens go really high res this will enable more applications like mobile maps. But the keyboard will still be too small for serious typing.
Smart phones are probably where all phones are headed. But not because they are especially useful to most people. It's more an issue of technology push.
- Andrew