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Your dream phone... |
CybaCowboy
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If you had the opportunity to design and build your own phone, what would it look like and what features would it have?
There are no limitations to your ideal phone, so let your imagination run wild!
Here's what my ideal phone would be, to get you started...
Because of the HUGE list of features, my ideal phone would probably be about the size of a Nokia 9200 Communicator series phone, but would be similar to the shape of a Sony Ericsson P800.
Its built-in features would include:
* 5+ Mega pixel digital still camera
* Digital Video (DV) camera
* 5+ GB Hard Disk Drive (HDD)
* Wi-Fi radio
* Bluetooth radio
* IrDA-compatible infrared port
* Global Positioning System (GPS) chip
* Biometric security
* A suite of multimedia, productivity, communications, entertainment and utility software
* Support for direct software and firmware downloads (without needing to use a PC)
* Digital television and radio tuner
* A custom audio/video (AV) input/output socket (to ensure the smallest size)
* Memory Stick drive, with support for Memory Stick Pro
* 65 Million color, high-resolution color screen
* Support for monophonic and polyphonic ringing tones, as well as allowing all major PC audio formats (eg. .WAV, .MP3, .WMA, etc...) to be used as ringing tones
* Support for CSD, the GPRS and EDGE
* Speakers
* Full support for the SMS, the EMS and the MMS
* Tri-band and dual mode transceiver, allowing use of the phone virtually anywhere in the world
* An infrared keyboard that projects the image of a full-size keyboard onto a surface and accepts input by sensing where your fingers are on this infrared image
Available as external options would be the following:
* An expansion option similar to Hewlett Packard Pocket PC "Expansion Packs"
* A combination AV adaptor and lead, allowing connection from the custom AV input/output socket (built-in to the phone) to a standard AV socket
* External speakers
* A "Thumb type" keyboard
* A full-size, foldable keyboard
All of the above already exists on the consumer market, either in cellular (mobile) telephone handsets, portable computing devices or some other device. The downside is that not all of the above is found in a single device... YET!
That should get you started, so off you go! Let's see how creative people can be...
[ This Message was edited by: CybaCowboy on 2003-09-16 03:32 ] |
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Dj Boyi
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Not another one!
@Gowin,please delete this dream!!!
If nobody wants it.. put it on eBay. |
GoH
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you missed out UMTS  |
pachy
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My dream phone would be one exactly like your above description, but delivered to me a couple of weeks before you got yours  |
Dj Boyi
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If nobody wants it.. put it on eBay. |
ArcheryTXS
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hey =)))
it`s still not EVERETHING what I watn 
Hove about this:
- XM radio
- USB2.0
- Solar battery (4 recharg phone )
- Bluetooth STEREO hendsfree (w. longlife battery , something like this one --> 
- LONGRange Bluetooth (~50 meters)
- Full voice control
- SmallSize )
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Dj Boyi
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Wtf!!! Motocrap Cordless Hairdriers!!!
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t610 (soooooon) 
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GoH
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50 meters is not long range dude! the z1010 has 100 meters!
and btw, who the heck designed this crap motorola shit! i dun think motorola will be so stupid! it looks as if someone PULLED my freaking shower head out of my bathroom. seriously cracked me up!
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Dj Boyi
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Wow! A shower phone!
This message was posted from a Motocrap Toilet Basin
[ This Message was edited by: boyi on 2003-09-16 05:39 ] |
GoH
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you guys crack me up!
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CybaCowboy
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Firstly, what the hell is the go with that Motorola headset? I mean, that is as ugly as they come!
In reply to some suggestions that you others have made, here's what I think...
The solar battery that was mentioned is a great idea and similar to an idea that I meant to put in my original post (although obviously I forgot). The difference with my idea was that I would have suggest to put solar panels on any available part of the phone. Not only could you combine the solar panels to create an interesting and probably cool design, but it would ensure maximum exposure!
USB 2.x is a good idea... USB ports are small, fast and standard bewteen all devices, so having a USB 2.x port would open up a lot more options. Good idea!
The Bluetooth stereo hands-free headset is another idea I meant to put in my original post. What would it look like? Probably something like the Sony Ericsson Bluetooth™ Headset HBH-60- It's small, sexy and functional.
A long-range Bluetooth radio is someting I didn't think of, although another brilliant idea. You should know that the Bluetooth technology to transmit signals up to 100 meters outdoors (although this requires significantly more power) and up to 50 meters in doors. This doesn't mean that all Bluetooth devices will work to these distances, the above is just the maximum you will ever get (well, for now anyway).
Full voice control, something I don't use very often (can never remember what I recorded!) may be useful for some people, but only if voice recognition was perfected. I guess I'd throw it in. Nice one.
Small size? If you read the top of my post, you would see the size that I think it would be. Ideally, all these brilliant features would be in something the size of a Sony Ericsson T600 (no, not a T610!) or a Nokia 8910i, although it would be VERY difficult to fit ALL of the features in this thread into a device that small.
Finally, what the hell is XM radio? |
Fahed_2000
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You forgot the unlimited Bill Gates bank account option (Provider Dependent)
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GoH
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well, i think he meant, xM radio, which basically translate to A/FM radio, something like classifying phones as T6xx, T3xx, T2xx, where the x represents a constant.
and you still missed out UMTS. and i think the solar panels will get fingerprinty and scratchy quickly, and is too brittle to use as a shell. you can put it INSIDE a transparent casing, but that will make the phone look toyish and a tad thicker.
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Fahed_2000
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@GoH
I think that he actully was correct coz there is XM Satellite Radio http://www.xmradio.com/xmpcr/
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GoH
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oops. ok my mistake.
edit: er, its not really a NORMAL radio. this one works via satellite uplink! and you need to pay to use it, though its supposed to be crystal clear.
[ This Message was edited by: GoH on 2003-09-16 07:21 ] |
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