Cool the "Fake" future can't wait... Thanks Nokia, I can't wait to for the launch of your next generation Monochrome phones, that is like WAY Future tech there.

The real question is: what's stopping them? Screen technology? Battery capacity? Low-voltage processors capable of handling it all? What's the holdup guys :)

This is the new 'we'll all be driving around in hovercars by the year 2000'

ummmm....what's that last one got to do with phones or nokia...ok song i guess (a bit derivative) but a phone?

Spacemanspiff:
to answer your question...TIME

ahhh...caught you posting corporate-'metal' videos!...nice save. 80)

Exactly, Spiff. What's holding them back? Certainly not technology, certainly not money, and obviously not vision. Why keep making crappy phones (As Steve said -- and that really was the truth of the year -- "everyone hates their phone"), when everything's there for them to make something amazing?

I bet my penny on it being the lack of courage to do something different. They, and most the rest of the industry, are putting their money on 'good enough', incremental updates to yesterday's old news.

"Good enough" isn't good enough!

what's holding them back is producing the technology at a price that people can afford.

btw the music isn't techno.

I for one can't wait to become cell-shaded. I'll look so cool.

Seems to me everything comes down to a fear of change. Nobody has yet dared to change what they currently do. Perhaps Apple joining the party will make all the other manufacturers take a really hard look at what they're doing and perhaps dare to try something a little different.

I hate to be the dink who brings up the iPhone, but, its interesting to see all these cool phones and futuristic interfaces announced just a week after MacWorld.

Time to play catch-up!

Didn't the CEO of MS just dis the iPhone for having a touch screen instead of a keyboard!

MS leading the field yet again....

If I become cell shaded, will I get more chicks?

I'd agree with some of the other posters that there is nothing here beyond current technology.

Aside from a few fairly interesting interface designs the phones themselves don't look anything special. Not a single one using smart paper or micro projectors or indeeded anything I could get excited about.

Bah... skip this touchscreen stuff and just build a cybernetic phone transmitter. Then we can all communicate "telepathically".

The bad news is that all the music in the future will suck.

I say that the biggest obstacle is that each company specialises in one content field and is not so great in others so they need to bring other companies on board to make a truely convergiant hand held device. The problem is that all of them want all of the pie. So we get situations for example where phone carriers won't allow a device that has great PC transfer to phone MP3 capacity cause then they won't be able to ream us for a payment everytime we 'download' a phone (song download time = airtime = cash). so an all dancing all singing convergient phone that can do everything is a threat to the ambitions of the telephone carrier companies making money off of song downloads if we all just usb the phone to our pc's and transfer the songs (no sure how Apple convinced Cingular to get on board).
So what's stopping it from happening? Not technology, not design, not software and certainly not price cause a device the size of the iphone that can do everything and well and in an open way then i'd pay $1,000 for (the iphone is juuuust a tad too closed a system for my liking)
Good old fashioned greed is the mainobstacle here.

Oh and, can tech companies please, please, please, get off of that idiotic 'internet on the fridge' thing. No i don't want to friggin come home and consult my fridge to find out what my family is doing. I'll have an all singing all dancing hand held remember so they can leave a messege for the whole fam and it will get CC'd to all our devices and i can read it in my hand at lesure.
Ok you had fun with the self re ordering fridge and internet on the fridge door conceptualising but it's staring to jack me off so drop it ok.

First thing came to mind was "Take on Me" by A-Ha...anybody...anybody?

Yea RIGHT.

When a cell phone can keep a signal without losing it, take good pictures, THEN I'll buy the "3 to 4 year" thing.

Until then, naw, it's just plastic crap that works in a mediocre way.

Apple is doing most of this things with iPhone and they have also eliminated the Damn Stylus! Nokia is my all time Fav firm but now they need to take Giant Strides, The Future is now concept videos are good but lets do this all in the next phone and now!

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