Yo Nick,
How is your day down there? Hope not too much tropical depressions
already (tsuyu).
> They are too stonking heavy.
Yups - it is getting heavier because more and more is put into it.
I just think it is a cylce.
new features & big -> standardized & small -> more new features & big ->
standardized & small
First the Japanese phones were the smallest. The European phones were
big (around 1998/1999).
Then 2001/2002 the European phones are much smaller than Japanese ones.
Because they mostly have no new features.
Now the Japanese are big with many new features and they are big. In
Japan maybe half the people like small ones but also half the Japanese
are geeky and like the stuff. So it somehow still sells.
Then the Japanese new features get standard and the phones get slim
again (in 2004/5?).
>The latency, crappy html interface and COST of keeping a
> dictionary off-phone make the whole idea lousy.
Yups. You are right. Why not put the stuff into a SD card? Oxford,
Encarta and movie dataabase compilation in a SD sounds nice!
> I would be happy with a superslim phone that "docked" with something a
> little larger that had additional functionality.
I do not like docking. Want to take that with you? You gonna lose or
forget it anyway.
> And for me, the killer app of my keitai is still its voice capability.
Yes. It will stay a means of communication. And as long we like to talk
it will be the killer app :-)
Cheers,
Reto
Received on Mon May 26 09:27:41 2003