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PDA/phone convergence
I've been waiting for some time for a good PDA/cellphone combo that I can buy. The newly released Treo 650 from palmOne is the closest thing I've seen to what I'm looking for.
Here is what it is missing:
WiFi - I want to be able to use my home network (or any other network I happen to be in) on the fly. Bluetooth is nice but no one has bluetooth networks in their homes, as far as I know.
Hefty storage a la iPod. This thing has 24MB of memory and a SD/MMX card slot, but that's all. While that's plenty for a phone, it is insufficient for a PDA. They have a built-in MP3 player, but only room for a few songs. Who's idea was that? Put a microdrive in there. I want 40GB.
Voice recorder/memo application. Somehow this application idea isn't obvious? I understand that voice control is still somewhat immature as technologies go, but all of the elements required for a record/playback device are already present here... why isn't the software?
Better Camera. The current camera is 640x480, and while this is equivalent to the Fujifilm DX-7 that I had in college, it is far behind the state of the art in phone cameras.
Vibrate ringer. There doesn't seem to be a silent ringer. You can turn the ringer off, but no mention of the vibrotron.
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