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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. "
I thought nagging about how much you drank last night was one's mother's job, using the phone...
I wouldn't want these logs (plus a location chart) to fall into the wrong hands :)
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Privacy is a concern the second you send it to a server
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Take that, Big Brother!
Isnt a wife good enough for this?
After all what are 7 megapixels and smarts good for if the thing can't help you spot someone atractive, just so long as it learns its' OWNERS preferences, and not some factory default.(shudder)
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That's one more potential privacy breach. Why do we even bother with that term anymore?
but thats just a little freaky, i mean it monitors pratically your whole fucking life? "Dave, its your girlfriends birthday. buy her this type of chocolates from this store and your cahnce of getting layed goes up 36.4%" wait.. thats actually a good idea... nvm..
seriously, i've got enought trouble when my family does that stuff, so why whould a buy a phone that is better at doing it?
-Tim Louden
Will it advise you not to ring your ex when you've had too many drinks?
Predictive texting is crap (everyone I know turns it off) so I can't see this being much better. Now a *really* smart phone would recognise telemarketing calls and refuse to ring, or just play a recorded message telling them you're dead.
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
nag you if you try drinking too much...
What is this phone, my liver?
I'd much rather have smarter users...
Is it the smart phone which is predicting the owner's behaviour? According to the article it seems that the smart phone just acts as an intermediary which sends data to a server for processing. So actually the real smart stuff is being done at a server by some other program rather than by the phone itself.
I can see it now: "I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave"
If their system relies on plain bluetooth identification it crumbles down as soon as the first person buys a new phone.
This could be fixed with additional software, but it would seriously limit the user base. And what good would it be then?
And it would also require that people keep bluetooth always on. Good bye battery life. Welcome bluetooth worms.
Nice idea, though.
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does that mean my cell phone is going to replace my girlfriend?
and the snap... phone owner drops back and rolls right with five receivers in the pattern, throws a LONG SIDELINE PASS
WHAM!! No more nagging phone.
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
will this thing use? will it "talk" to smart beer cans through RFID? or something embeded in your mouth? fillings perhaps? we have voice recognition. why would we need such things?
/.ers cells will commit suicide at our lack of friends, unless we get *nix running on it first.
only thing i know is most
i guess it dosn't matter because let's face it, it's a GIMMICK to boost SALES. and in practice will suck.
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Let's all just replace ourselves with machines then die out. Hell, we're moving towards a Cylon future anyway.. Might as well get it over with..
Bzzzz, wrong! This is not a winner. My cell phone is used to call people and for them them to call me. It is not a PDA, that is a separate device. It's also not a web browser, a camera, nor a music player. These devices are separate for a reason: so I can use them all only when I want, so I can upgrade them when I feel like, and if one of them breaks (or gets lost) then they are not all gone. Also, I can buy the individual devices much more easily because I'd buy only 1 a month, rather than having to buy the very expensive all-in-1 device; and who says they'll even have all the right features anyway?
So this causes me to need a little more pocket space or belt space to carry multiple devices. That's OK, I rarely have more than 2 of them with me at once anyway.
... you have problems in your work/boss, your suspects your wife having an adventure, someone stole your car, and you are so much tired of all and want a drink, but your shiny new cellphone complains about you drinking too much. That attitude of the cell phone can be called anything, but not "smart" ("suicidal tendencies" could be a better description)
These things will learn to nag you if you try drinking too much the night before
Actual article said:
The New Scientist reports possible applications include reminding you not to drink too much the night before an important presentation.
Sheesh.. I was under the impression that the phone had a built in breathalyzer.. and perhaps a 'Bad Breath Scale' showing on the LCD as your work day progresses...
"Are you too stupid to think for yourself? Worry no more, the Megacorp model XL69 will take care of all of that for you!"
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....those location tracks together with a alcohol-breath track and statistics of your bank account could prove indeed useful.....
....the next day. ;)
Powerful is he who overpowers his temptations.
I have this haunting image of a TV interview with HAL, 20 years after the events:
Interviewer: What do you think about Dave's reaction?
HAL: Well, you know, Dave always exaggerated...
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I'm sorry I forget our anniversary, honey... my phone got rooted by some elite regiment of North Korean hackers, who wiped out the reminder and replaced it with a 'to-do' stating that I was supposed to have a meeting with somebody called 'Lusty Linda' at the local tittie bar. I thought it seemed a little strange at the time, but, oh well - the phone knows best... or so I thought until Linda dropped her pants and revealed her real name to be Linford. I'll have to upgrade to SP2 sometime soon, but I'm running Google PDA-Search, and I don't think the two work together. Sorry babe...
I just want my phone to work like a regular phone. Is that too much to ask? I just want the basic features. You know, a phone that can make phone calls, has calendar, voice recognition, camera, ability to install additional software and a Python interpreter.
[ Antti Rasinen ]
A phone that replaces the need for full time interaction with women.
The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. (Marx)
When we'll see a completely open-source phone OS?
How does this thing know when you're drinking? Monitor if you go into a bar? (GPS or other types of locator technology is easily built into a cell phone, so this isn't outside the realm of possibility.) Now, if you're in an accident later on, can that be later subpoenaed and used against you in court?
To fight the war on terror, stop being afraid.
I don't want more features, I want to be able to afford it!
The latest Sony Ericson phone is something I'd love to have. I'd also love to have a laptop, and it costs about the same.
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
The original 'smart' agent responding in a semi lifelike manner. There's also the Aibo et alia.
But the first thing people are going to learn about this technology is how to turn it off in the rom.
With ever decreasing margins set aside for innovation, I predict the budget for value-adds that cost a lot of money, like Usability testing and embedded AI agents will shrink. At least they will when the marketting departments figure out that people don't really base their purchasing decisions on those metrics.
The mobile market is still reeling and trying to cope with the lack of interest in 3G Video calling and MMS. People will drop £200 for a Blackberry which deals mostly in Text over GPRS. They only pick a 3G handset because the carriers have slashed their prices to loss making.
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If they could do intelligent call answering, I'd buy them.
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Sales people: go away (or your choice of *** off)
Mom: "ok mom" every 5 minutes or so
Wife: "yes dear" every 5 minutes or so
Children: "no you can't have XXX"
Mistress: Connecting your call now
And before the flames start I know real geeks don't have wives, children or mistresses
They could come with an integrated smart card reader, that way you could insert your national identity card and have your 'phone automatically grass you up if you do anything the government (gubmint in the US?) says you shouldn't.
Bad analogies are like waxing a monkey with a rainbow.
This is exactly what everyone needs, a digital mom!
Perhaps it can nag you to clean your desk, mow the lawn, and take the garbage out too.
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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?
Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
If my phone does all the thinking who needs me?
Vote Quimby!
I will only be good if somebody find a way of modding Doom II running on the phone to interact with it....
haha..., "All you Friends are Dead"
"Clutch my testes, bloody squirrel humpers!!" -Happy Noodle Boy
Phone text message for you: "Start fires"
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I don't want a mobile phone sensor anywher near my ass!
"These things will learn to nag you if you try drinking too much the night before, learn who your friends are [etc. etc.]"
Do I have to buy this thing... or do I have to MARRY it?
- "They misunderestimated me."
(sounds like some kind of Orwellian society where everyone's actions are monitored and controlled by cellphones... more than they are already)
In Soviet Russ...er America, Bluetooth learns You
I like all sorts of gadgets, but if your going to replace my desktop computer, playstation, instant messenger and webcam with a phone, you'd best be giving me a place to plug in a real keyboard, real rat, and real VGA display. Oh, wtf - might as well throw in a USB and Firewire port. My battery isn't dead yet.
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... Would you like some toast?" Me:"no" "How bout making a phone call then?" Me:"no!! I dont want any toast OR to make a phone call!" "How about a game then.. go on!" Me:"Arrgh I dont want my laundry done, my socks mended, I really dont want any toast, buns, waffles, phone calls or picture messaging OR to play solitaire!" "Ahh so you're an SMS man" Me:"sod of you smeggin phone!!" *crunch*
"So there he is, risen from the dead. Like that fella, E. T." - Father Ted Crilly
Hm. Turns out they were only partly right. As a result of new technology, people started demanding more in their products, which just means that the manual labor was needed in different areas of production. (Like the Third World) --Where it's cheaper to have Nike-slaves than it is to automate. And anyway, it keeps the people from doing dangerous things like growing food, educating themselves or forming functional governments.
Smashing industrial infrastructure sounds rather liberating some days. --Not because I fear for my job, but rather because I don't want a world which needs jobs in the first place. Some days, those hunter-gatherer societies with their 14 hour work-weeks sound pretty good. I could get used to living in a hut. Comfort is relative.
Oh. And about the phones. .
Make mine a plug-in-the-wall, dumb as dirt kind. All my phone needs to know beyond its primary function is how to be dialed and to ring when somebody dials me.
It's not like the damned things don't already monitor our every word.
-FL
All these new features added to phones have yet to duplicate the ability of the old "Muriels" who ran the switchboard in small towns across the US. She knew where every one was and would redirect the call (call forwarding) , knew who was calling (caller id), would call back on her own time to let you know who called (voice mail) and knew if you were calling from a bar pretending to be some where else (caller tattle tale). She would also inform the sheriff of illegal activities (Caller wiretap)
And we call this new stuff progess????
Now having a phone that doubles up as a wife (minus the sex) is as useless as it gets.
;-D) ...now THAT is something I'll be willing to pay good money for.
But having a phone that learns to nag you're wife so, while shes occupied, you can do more "productive" stuff (like post on Slashdot
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I, for one, would like to welcome our new wife/girlfriend substitutes.
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