Smarter Phones Coming Soon

cofaboy writes "Down at Vulture Central there's an article regarding the next generation of smart phones. These things will learn to nag you if you try drinking too much the night before, learn who your friends are via bluetooth and more. "

Comments

Re:I don't want an all-in-1 device

[kylegordon]

I wouldn't exactly call them expensive. I got my bluetoothed, mp3/ogg playing, photo taking, web browsing, email reading/sending, note taking, handwriting recognising, etc SonyEricsson P800 for the princely sum of £30 last year. It wasn't a dodgy shop, just a deal with a contract on Orange.
Admittedly, I'd be screwed if I lost it. But that's what backups are for. If it decides to go walkies, then sync all my contacts from the PC to a spare phone and off I go again.

Re:just cause you can don't mean you should

[ajs318]

what about a phone that gets excellent reception wherever you go?

Unfortunately that's not very likely. Whenever the phone companies want to put up a new base station, someone invariably objects on bogus "health risk" grounds.

Now, recall that RF is non-ionising and so has no cumulative effects. Only field strength matters. Furthermore RF travels in straight lines, and spreads out evenly over an area; so the field strength decreases with the square of distance. Twice as far away == a quarter of the field strength.

The further your phone is from the nearest base station {which will be even further if the protesters get their way.....}, the more power it has to put out to reach it. And your phone probably is a lot closer to you than the nearest base station is .....

Get what I'm saying?