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

Your mom

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought nagging about how much you drank last night was one's mother's job, using the phone...

Information is dangerous :)

[Gopal.V]

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 ....

Re:Information is dangerous :)

[malsbert]

would never happen! companys take care not to disclose personal information about there custermers!

damn this is goooood weed! where was i? nevermind...

Re:Information is dangerous :)

[Enix]

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?

'learn who your friends are via bluetooth'

[dupper]

Aha: I don't have any friends.

Take that, Big Brother!

Re:'learn who your friends are via bluetooth'

[ceeam]

I changed your slashdot status to "friend" :)

Others?

You can call me paranoid..

[thegoogler]

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..

Re:You can call me paranoid..

[njchick]

Imagine explaining your phone that your girlfriend dumped you for a guy with a better phone, so you don't need to buy her any gifts. Your phone may be very unhappy to learn about that.

When drunk...

[imroy]

Will it advise you not to ring your ex when you've had too many drinks?

Nah...

[Zog The Undeniable]

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.

Re:Nah...

[KronicD]

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).

Danger Will Robinson!

[snaphu]

I can see it now: "I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave"

The '0wned' Excuse

[salvorHardin]

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...

Awesome

[kuzb]

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.