A Smartphone Wish!

[dskaff]

:x Constantly I watch the new stuff coming out and I wonder what happened to the group of us that wanted a Smartphone that was Useful? Phones manufacturers are bragging about TV, Cameras, Video, Music, Games, Text Text, Pix Text, and on and on. What about a phone that is preferably a flip, with a stylus and handwriting recognition (or better yet complete voice recognition and not just for calls), full MS Office function including Word, Excel, & of coarse Outlook, and that does full POP 3 email without stripping the attachments or the html graphics or limiting the characters, a super fast processor to run the email video of my grandkids, a lot of memory, blue tooth, WI-FI, and GPS. Why do I want all that boring stuff you ask? Because it is USEFUL and isn't that what the whole mobility thing was about in the first place? I want to walk into the office and get ALL of my email to read later and be able to reply on the fly. I want to write or speak to Word and Excel from the car or a client's office and when I'm lost I want to look at the map and have it tell me where I am. I want to be able to search the net from anywhere (Why Verizon thinks that is worth $40 a month is another issue). Finally, if my kids send me a clip of my grandkids birthday, I wouldn't mind viewing it. Oh by the way, put it in a Flip that has a slightly bigger screen, but not a Smartphone that looks like my multi function TV remote control that makes me lean to one side when I carry it. And for goodness sake, can't it be CDMA? I don't live in Europe so I don't care what they use and I like Verizon (unless they keep raising their fees). Motorola was going to come out with one (actually for the past year and a half), but then I read they were going to want some silly price like $900 and it wouldn't work on Verizon's network. Yet another stumbling block.. Did they postpone it because they have second thoughts or did they realize that for $900 it better drive the car too? Somebody please tell me how to get the industry back on track!

[Sven Johannsen]

Oh, so all you really want is a Tablet PC with built in GPS, but as small as an MPX220, but a much bigger screen, and don't make it cost too much. No sweat, probabaly have that out by Xmas. :wink: It's OK if you have to keep the battery in your backpack, right?

[Mike Temporale]

There's the OQO, but that's not a flip device, and it's bigger than the MPx220....

[dskaff]

:P Well...Yeah! I have faith in technology, I only wish they would catch up with me. Seriously, I may be reaching a little, but the Moto PDA Flip that was supposed to be introduced last year was very close. The anticipate price was a little much and it was not on CDMA. Other than that it was in the ball game. Come we all know that the prices of wireless phones are way over the top. Pay $500 in January and they are giving them away in December. I am curious to see what this year brings. The point of my post was to make mention of the fact that the industry is going after the play stuff (probably they anticipate a higher profit margin from that side of the table) rather than the business side which is where it used to be headed.

[Jerry Raia]

Just look at this thread. (http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7855) This is the kind of stuff they think we want. :D

[dskaff]

:roll: Whew...for a minute there I thougt I was the weirdo. That is exactly what I am talking about. Nothing but gimmics instead of improving the product. My first cell phone (now you'll get my age) was in about 1987. It looked like an Army Walkie Talkie about a foot tall not counting the antenna (Miami Vice used them if you remember that far back). And get this. It was a Motorola and the only feature it had was a 10 number memory. Cost...$1,700, but I was mobile before most of the world. Since then they have gotten smaller and smaller. Small is good, but now is the time to make 'em work. Gimmie the real features. Yes as sven said earlier, I want a mini handheld computer with GPS. Want to throw in TV as an option? Go for it, but if it can't get my email (Like Outlook) then I'll wait a while before I spend my $. Maybe I will wait for the day when it will cut the grass while it is charging. :lol:

[Sven Johannsen]

The point of my post was to make mention of the fact that the industry is going after the play stuff Gotta agree with you there. My MPX220 takes decent snapshots, takes and plays videos, does music, has games, has my calendar. What it doesn't do well is connect to my car handsfree set, or act as a modem for my PPC..the phone functions :?

[dskaff]

:o Thanks to Mike Temporale for pointing out the OQO. That is what I had in mind, but it doesn't appear to be a phone. Maybe next model. If so, hope they make a CDMA model.

[Mike Temporale]

:o Thanks to Mike Temporale for pointing out the OQO. That is what I had in mind, but it doesn't appear to be a phone. Maybe next model. If so, hope they make a CDMA model.

DOH! I forgot that little requirement. :oops: Well, it's almost everything you're looking for. ;)