Microsoft: Why Not Use Your Phone as a Cheap PC?

[Ed Hansberry]

<a href="http://www.physorg.com/news98525702.html">http://www.physorg.com/news98525702.html</a><br /><br /><i>"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."</i><br /><br />There was no indication in the article if Windows Mobile would be the platform for Fone+ or if it would be something else entirely.

[alese]

I know that the post is not directly linked to Windows Mobile, as Fone+ is not specifically linked to WM.
But given the current situation, it's pretty safe bet that WM is the underlying platform.
And if that's true then the answer to the question: Why not use Your Phone as a Cheap PC? Is pretty simple.

Beacuse such phone is expensive as a PC, not cheap and because it doesn't work like a PC thanks to Microsoft and their insistance on crippling functionality on WM - Office, Mail, Browsing, no (usually) ability to use external storage and external display...

WM as a platform is certainly capable of beeing PC replacement, but the functionality is simply not there, mostly (but not entirely) because of Miscrosoft.