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Smart Cellphone Would Spend Your Money

Posted by timothy on from the not-for-the-weirdo-spender dept.

jonknee writes "MobileTracker pointed to an article in the latest New Scientist about some new 3G mobile phone software that tries to learn your habits and start making your decisions for you. This sounds like science fiction, but it's happening now. The phone will be able to make reservations for you at your favorite steak house and then save seats for you at the hot event in town. Neat!"

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  1. Tivo? by CatKnight · · Score: 0, Troll

    So this is basically Tivo for your credit card? Yeah that's a great idea, I can see it now. What happenes when it guesses your habits wrong? Will it order you a bunch of gay porno because you got tickets to see some broadway show?

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    The Stone Age did not end for lack of stones, and when the oil age ends it will not be for lack of oil. --Bjorn Lomberg
  2. Re:Neat! by scoove · · Score: 0, Troll

    This phone has moved to the upper region of my DO NOT BUY list.

    Yea, have you noticed that cellphones have already slid into the uncool category for the star-bellied sneaches? Maybe it's the fact that every shopper at ALDI (is yacking away on a phone nowdays, or that they've become so ubiquitous.

    Certainly, the next level of cool will be how one manages life without a phone. Now, a phone that stays at home and gets me out of boring meetings... that's cool.

    *scoove*