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mozomo

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.

Destardi

targatop

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.

Poita

JRo

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.

mikki

JasonCo

MS leading the field yet again....

DrD

Time to play catch-up!

StackyBotrus

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.

ultim8fury

btw the music isn't techno.

badtimmy

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!

nevyn

ken

MaxRisen

ken

bitfactory

SpacemanSpiff

PlasticJohn