Comments on: Introducing…Your Next Phone! http://gigaom.com/2009/12/08/introducing-your-future-phone/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:44:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 6 Features to Expect in iPhone OS 4.0 | AlexVerse http://gigaom.com/2009/12/08/introducing-your-future-phone/#comment-232645 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:11:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=83687#comment-232645 [...] to see a second, front-facing camera for video chatting in iPhone OS 4.0 — it’s a feature we’ve been calling for since late last year. Perhaps it would be similar to iChat’s video offering on a Mac. We could even see third-party [...]

]]> By: 6 Features to Expect in iPhone OS 4.0 http://gigaom.com/2009/12/08/introducing-your-future-phone/#comment-232644 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:25:00 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=83687#comment-232644 [...] see a second, front-facing camera for video chatting in iPhone OS 4.0 — it’s a feature we’ve been calling for since late last year. Perhaps it would be similar to iChat’s video offering on a Mac. We could even see [...]

]]> By: Mobile World Congress: Don’t Call It a Phone Show – GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2009/12/08/introducing-your-future-phone/#comment-232643 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:57:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=83687#comment-232643 [...] true HD video to silicon that integrates multiple radios on a chip. For the average Joe this means devices coming out in the next two years will pack more of a visual punch and surf the web at lighting speeds on whatever network is [...]

]]> By: JimRobJones http://gigaom.com/2009/12/08/introducing-your-future-phone/#comment-232642 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:55:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=83687#comment-232642 This is the kind of bland inside the box ignorant posting that is repeatedly coming out of GigaOm these days. This post says nothing. This phone practically exists already. Three years ago before the iPhone was introduced all we had in terms of smartphones was the equivalent of Windows 3.1. And No music, No video camera, and No Apps. Three years from now if this crappost is correct and this is all that has changed the smartphone industry will have stalled. Please stop with these pointless posts. If you have some sort of outside the box concepts then post em. Stop wasting our time with these PC Magazinesque five minutes ago posts. You should be embarrassed by this crap.

]]> By: Show Me the Display Innovation – GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2009/12/08/introducing-your-future-phone/#comment-232641 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:57:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=83687#comment-232641 [...] the most likely home for the initial innovation given the battery constraints of a cell phone (even a pico projector attached to a cell phone sucks the battery in no time). Already better visualization tools are used in the supercomputing [...]

]]> By: Funtomas http://gigaom.com/2009/12/08/introducing-your-future-phone/#comment-232640 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:37:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=83687#comment-232640 Regarding the video calls, how many of you guys use it on your 3G phone these days? It’s available here in Europe but it seems to me no one is so bold to use it when outside. Why so you ask? Well, I guess mobile phone invention is a success due to one indisputable benefit, i.e. you can make a call why doing something els. Think having a call why driving and other sins. You really desire to see your caller? Use your plasma instead.
The bleeding edge tech is good as long as it comes in hand with usability.
Stacey, keep this great discussion going.
Cheers.

]]> By: Funtomas http://gigaom.com/2009/12/08/introducing-your-future-phone/#comment-232639 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:23:49 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=83687#comment-232639 Well, I should have put it in more precise way. Sure, HD is a must these days so “your next phone” should be capable of recording HD vids as well. However HD playback is pointless unless you want just check out what you’ve just captured. I don’t think you’re going to sit still staring at your 3 point something inches screen to watch full length movie, not to mention draining your battery. OK, you can suggest streaming the vid on your plasma through a HDMI port while powered from wall socket but when you buy your next phone, your next plasma will be capable to decode AVCHD or whatever vid coding. SD card slot is even better option in that regard when it comes to power consumption. To sum it up, yes to HD vid recording, no to resource hungry HD playback.
Thanks Stacy for the fruitful discussion.

]]> By: Stacey Higginbotham http://gigaom.com/2009/12/08/introducing-your-future-phone/#comment-232638 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:16:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=83687#comment-232638 the SD card slot apparently went without saying as did the dual mode radio. I agree the phone will have both. Removable battery is a good call.

]]> By: Stacey Higginbotham http://gigaom.com/2009/12/08/introducing-your-future-phone/#comment-232637 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:14:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=83687#comment-232637 I like OLED, but I think that getting HD video off the phone in a power efficient manner will make the HDMI port worth it. Resolution sells, so I believe in HD even on tiny screens. But bluetooth 3.0 is cool and I don’t have a monopoly on vision. I appreciate yours.

]]> By: DistortedLoop http://gigaom.com/2009/12/08/introducing-your-future-phone/#comment-232636 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:00:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=83687#comment-232636 Doesn’t matter what the hardware will be, it will be many years before most of the features that hardware takes advantage of (like video phone calls) are allowed without crippling by the carriers. AT&T keeps making noise about limiting data from the bandwidth hogging iPhone users because their network just can’t handle the traffic. The iPhone’s the first mobile device to really make you want to use bandwidth, and as new phones come out, we’re learning that the networks are a long way from being able to handle the traffic the nifty new hardware demands.

]]> By: Vance http://gigaom.com/2009/12/08/introducing-your-future-phone/#comment-232635 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:52:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=83687#comment-232635 You missed a big one; video projector.

Remember when laser pointers starting selling for less than $20? There’ll be even more visual pollution when everyone starts picking up a mobile which they can project their video and stills onto large surfaces with. It should be fun though.

]]> By: Shervin Bain http://gigaom.com/2009/12/08/introducing-your-future-phone/#comment-232634 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:48:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=83687#comment-232634 Why do the most useful phones always have to look so ugly?

I think it varies for many users. I personally don’t put any music on my cell phone because I like to use my iPod when I hit the gym.

I’m mostly interested in how they would advertise this seemingly revolutionary device!

]]> By: Stacey Higginbotham http://gigaom.com/2009/12/08/introducing-your-future-phone/#comment-232633 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:38:58 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=83687#comment-232633 I still thinks magnetic induction as it stands today and in the near future isn’t really compelling enough to add as a standard feature. As long as we’re talking charging pads, I’m not sold.

]]> By: Stacey Higginbotham http://gigaom.com/2009/12/08/introducing-your-future-phone/#comment-232632 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:37:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=83687#comment-232632 Cheese, that’s coming. The goal here was to focus on hardware.

]]> By: Nicholas http://gigaom.com/2009/12/08/introducing-your-future-phone/#comment-232631 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:32:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=83687#comment-232631 The computing paradigm has been productive, but most of the interesting stuff is going to happen beneath the surface. I’ve called the iPhone the first mass “black box.” Seriously, what is it? It is the interface to the services we need.

These interfaces are stuck in the past, and what we need is a typing for mobility, and I highly doubt that it is about typing. More likely it is about gesture, and later scary mind scanning. It is at its core about shorthand for thought rather than an interface per se.

We are beginning a stage of calling into question the notion of computing and work. Cloud services get at the core of this, but the symbiotic part of the relationship is missing. The keyboard and the mouse were first, and the next steps will get weird and incredibly cool. In 20 years, I bet we recognize little of what we consider to be the web or computers in general.

]]> By: Lally http://gigaom.com/2009/12/08/introducing-your-future-phone/#comment-232630 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:58:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=83687#comment-232630

  • A haptic keyboard is only useful if it gives different feedback when you hit the center of the key from when you hit some more ambiguous region that may have hit the wrong key

  • Docking connector? Swap it out for more USB. You already have HDMI, just plug in your mouse and keyboard.

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