gdichaz,
you wrote: "Having used landline "always on", it was a much better experience than "dial up" for my desktop computer"
In my book your dial-up is an "always on" also. "Always on", to me, means that you can keep your phone on all day permanently connected to the internet watching our NOK/QCOM stock price tick by (or sports results) , using java to update your graph continually, paying not by the minute but by the "tick (or an unlimited flat fee). Your e-mails are going to beep when they arrive but your phone is not consuming precious minutes while "staying on" checking for new mail. I want to check the weather radar while I drive home during an ice storm- not paying for 60 minutes of use but only for every automatic java-update. Maybe I want to see where my family is during that storm by having the system put their phone locations on a map that updates all the time. Maybe I want my phone to beep when I'm at the office and my home security system alerts of something and show me a display with the cause of it. Maybe I want to have a picture or a video and a voice channel, when someone rings my door at home, when I'm away, even in another country. There are endless examples of what "always on" can do. Always on to me, means that my phone acts like my (still a dial-up, unfortunately) computer when it is connected to the internet.
I can't wait for my "always on" Nokia Communicator, be it 1X or GPRS..
Lars |
