Re: iPhone
- From: jgd@xxxxxxxxx (John Dallman)
- Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:34 +0100 (BST)
In article <ddfr-44885C.17331512072007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ddfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Friedman) wrote:
My Nokia 9300 does pretty well too, aside from being on EDGE and so a
slow browser. But I would like something with a substantially larger
screen and at least as good a keyboard as the Psion Revo had--and
would be willing to accept increasing length and height accordingly,
with perhaps some reduction in thickness.
It appears that not enough of us want PDAs with built-in keyboards to
justify the design, manufacturing and distribution overheads of more
models. I have a Dell PDA with Windows Mobile 2005, and found that the
on-screen QWERTY worked smoothly enough with the stylus that I settle
for that, rather than learning a gesture language, or carrying around
the bluetooth keyboard I bought with it.
At least part of the problem with programmable phones is that network
operators are scared of them, fearing they'll mess up the network. This
might have something to do with the somewhat dodgy way that mobile
networks seem to be pasted together.
There's a thought for sf--CAD and CAM good enough, and designs
flexible enough, so that each customer would design his own
individual product, within some general design created by the
producer.
Modular design is claimed to handle this by its proponents, but it
doesn't cope well with incremental upgrades to technology, and copes
very badly indeed with technology as a fashion item. And the fashion
aspect of phones is more important to the business than the minority who
want data services and text editing. Fashion-driven customers seem more
willing to spend money.
You'll have to change manufacturing processes fairly radically before
fabrication of customer-designed parts becomes commonplace. Look up
"stereolithography" for the nearest thing at present, but that only
works with a few kinds of plastics and has no way to built electronics.
--
John Dallman, jgd@xxxxxxxxx, HTML mail is treated as probable spam.
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