Tom,
Check out ImaHima (www.imahima.com). I believe they offer a service like
you've outlined.
Philip
At 09:23 AM 5/27/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi,
>I often think it would be nice to be able to display a list from your
>addressbook with the nearest 10 folk's distance away from you
>displayed so you could say have lunch with them if it turned out you
>were within almost shouting distance.
>Tom
>England
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Reto Grob <rgrob@klab.org>
>
>:
>: Hi Nick,
>:
>: > >> They are too stonking heavy.
>: > >
>: :
>: Yes. I think so too. And not many people can foresee correctly which
>: feature actually is going to open a new interesting market. That is
>why
>: many makers are trying out new stuff - and the mobile phone they
>think
>: is a great toy to test.
>:
>: In 505 we already have tests for
>: - OLE technology
>: - fingerprint technology
>: - barcode reader technology
>: - 3d screen technology
>: - high-res digital camera
>:
>: Are some of those needed/successful or not? Maybe not. And I doubt
>: about some of them too. The market will decide.
>:
>: > Phones will slim down a little as the hardware becomes
>commodotized -
>: > but unless there is a really incentive to get them REALLY slim, it
>won't happen.
>:
>: Yups. I agree.
>:
>: Let's say Sony tries the SUICA in their phones. This may make the
>phone
>: bigger at first. But they do not yet know if this would be a success
>or
>: not. So, at first the phone may be big. But in case everybody likes
>it,
>: they would spend the effort to make it smaller.
>:
>: > REAL Geeks like elegant design, things that are good at the jobs
>they do
>: > - not - well - the latest crop have all the elegance of EMACS!
>:
>: Yeah. Maybe some geeks on this world will at one time work together
>with
>: a manufacturer to make a really stylish useful fun phone. It is a
>far
>: way but it will come, I am confident.
>:
>:
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Received on Tue May 27 11:38:13 2003