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What's Happened In Mobile Over the Past 10 Years
andylim writes "recombu.com has an article examining what's happened in mobile over the past ten years, including BlackBerry launching its first smart phone in 2002, Motorola launching the Razr in 2004 and Apple launching the iPhone in 2007. As a commenter points out, the first camera phone (Sharp J-SH04), which was released in 2000, featured a 110,000-pixel (0.11MP) CMOS image sensor, and a 256-colour (8 bit) display."
'All I want is a phone that makes calls.'
Its a phone.. what more does it need to do? ? ?
My favorite and would still be in use if the CMDA version was more widely released, the Original Motoroal 8000UH Brick phone. Thats what all phones should be made like, to this day.
If I need to send an email I will use the device for that,a COMPUTER. A computer equipped with a wireless data card of some sort.
The correct device for the activity at hand, so a phone for a phone, a computer for a computer task.
The more you add to a "phone" the more you get away from its core operation and need and its inability to keep up with that task.
How I use a cell phone.
1) As a phone. GASP! The horror, and "oh the humanity of it!"
2) As a alpha pager. SMS has pretty much run most of the paging carriers out of business except in some of the rural regions I go to where a POCSAG pager on 152.480 is all that will cut it, as even a cell phone is useless.
Any thing else I will pull out the correct device
1) Laptop with wireless data card for web, email, etc..
2) 2 Way radio for the various radio networks from analog conventional simplex to digital encrypted trunked.
3) 9mm Sig
4) 12 gauge S&W
1311393600 - Back to Black
How do you 'think' BlackBerries are Canadian? Are you not connected to the internet posting this? Do you not have access to Google? Wikipedia? Bing..?
Blow up my plane? Nuke ten of your airports.