Hi, Dowjoe - No, sorry, I should have added a comment. It relates to where the "sweet spot" is developing in the wireless market - the SOC will be vital to cramming all functionality possible into future cell phones.
The post on the MiPad, and the one on SOCs, are indicators of how fast this is approaching. While this is hardware, one can envision a device which has software such as speech recognition, voiceprinting, and perhaps a wireless engine, built into the chips.
My favorite design is something like your wallet. You open it up, and there's two halves of a plastic screen. Touch a spot on the screen once, it becomes a display; touch it again, it becomes a keyboard; again, it becomes a dialer; last touch turns it off to save power. Small holes for the mic and speaker give you voice input, or let you listen.
This month's PC Computing has an interesting article on wireless (no online version) including some of the latest cell phone designs. |
