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Smarter Phones Coming Soon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nag-three-times-more-efficiently-than-mom dept.

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. "

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  1. Information is dangerous :) by Gopal.V · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wouldn't want these logs (plus a location chart) to fall into the wrong hands :)

    Privacy is a concern the second you send it to a server ....

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    1. Re:Information is dangerous :) by Enix · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The scary part is that you might not know when you're being 'tracked'... Say one of your friends gets the phone but you don't know it's a smarty-pants phone. If they hang around with you a lot of the time suddenly They know where you are.

      I just find it strange that in time of security paranoia we still seem to broadcast so much information about ourselves without thinking about it. For example, I bought a set of headphones the other day and was asked my phone number and post code (zip code). Now why do they need to know that?

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  2. Re:Nah... by KronicD · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I use preditive text, it's alot faster for me, the casual SMS user. For those excessive types that never stop sending text messages it is probly slower. However for those who look at the keys etc, it is alot faster.

    As for filtering calls, my current nokia can do that (6610), by setting different caller groups with different ringtones (or no ringtones).

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