Text 17974, 96 rader
Skriven 2007-05-18 08:16:40 av Ad (1:379/45)
  Kommentar till text 17967 av Rich (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Your next PC is... a phone
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From: Ad <Dobbin@theStablesCloseToTheAirport.com>

Rich wrote:
>    I don't decry the phone.  I very much like my smartphone.  It's not a
> PC replacement and not even close.  That's not to say a future one
> couldn't be closer.  What is reported below is not the phone replacing
> the PC as much as being a portable media player.  The actual article
> describes other specialty applications not the general purpose
> functionality of a PC.
>


Riiigght so you do nuclear simulations?

Most smartphones are or are approaching where my old PC/my son's win2K pc is
(PIII 500 + 256 mb of ram) at least in processor terms.

& soon they'll be quite a lot faster e.g.

http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/ARM_Cortex-A8.html

"The ARM CortexTM-A8 processor is the first applications processor based on the
ARMv7 architecture and is the highest performance, most power-efficient
processor ever developed by ARM. With the ability to scale in speed from 600MHz
to greater than 1GHz, the Cortex-A8 processor can meet the requirements for
power-optimized mobile devices needing operation in less than 300mW; and
performance-optimized consumer applications requiring 2000 Dhrystone MIPS. The
Cortex-A8 processor is ARM’s first superscalar processor featuring technology
for enhanced code density and performance,  NEONÖ technology for multimedia and
signal processing, and JazelleR RCT (Runtime Compilation Target) technology for
efficient support of ahead-of-time and just-in-time compilation of Java and
other bytecode languages. "


Most Smartphones come with bluetooth & bluetooth mice & keyboards are growing
in range while falling in price. Personally I want a foldable keyboard with a
trackpad.

Most are coming with a proper USB implemention such that all sorts of devices
could be plugged in.

Most are coming with pretty impressive storage capacities (or can be expanded
via increasingly capacious & cheap cards).


Most are headed towards a proper OS as the device constraints come off due to
tech advance (e.g. the Iphone OS will be based on OSX i.e. BSD unix) & Motorola
et al are headed to linux.

The one thing which is missing is the problem of the display & by the sound of
it it's something MS is looking like addressing which is good.

Adam


> Rich
>
>
>     "Ad" <Dobbin@theStablesCloseToTheAirport.com
>     <mailto:Dobbin@theStablesCloseToTheAirport.com>> wrote in message
>     news:464bf527$1@w3.nls.net...
>     http://www.physorg.com/news98525702.html
>
>     Ah dear me...after all this time of Rich S decrying the phone.....his
>     masters may be "thinking different".
>
>     "While the PDA has existed as a sort of mini-PC for years, Microsoft
>     said it would encourage phone manufacturers to formalize the transition
>     of the phone to a mobile PC through a research initiative called
>     "Fone+"."
>
>
>     " Microsoft Research chief Craig Mundie said that Microsoft has a
>     research project called "Fone+" that would allow the phone to work with
>     a TV as a secondary display, and one that could allow video stored on
>     the device to be played back on the television.
>
>     For Microsoft, the challenge is extending the PC platform into new
>     applications and form factors. For many years, the WinHEC confeerence
>     here has served as the underlying foundation for hardware initiatives
>     for the Tablet PC and the more recent UMPC, both of which have
>     struggled. Microsoft's penetration into the smartphone market, however,
>     has been more successful.
>
>     "There's no reason that if this thing were hooked up to a large display
>     that we couldn't watch video in this environment," Mundie said. "
>
>     Gosh you mean display is the problem...?
>
>     Go on mah son sort out smart phone displays for the rest of us.....
>
>
>     Adam

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