Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Russell Beatie Thinks About Mobile Gadget Form Factors
Posted by Jason Dunn in "ARTICLE" @ 06:00 AM
"I'm trying to grok what a perfect mobile device would look like. Note that I didn't say "mobile phone." The way mobile phones are designed today (mostly flips) will stay the most popular and widespread for years to come. But what I'm trying to think about is that as we go forward in time and we have anywhere data access, and we start to use these devices in different ways (media, information retrieval, gaming, etc.), will there be a "combined" device which is capable of being all things to all people?"
An interesting article by Russell Beatie. He's exceedingly biased against Microsoft, and doesn't understand the difference between a Phone Edition device and a Smartphone, but it's still an interesting read. ;-) What do you think the future of form factors holds? What would your perfect device be? Myself, since I don't talk on the phone that much but still need to have one with me, I'd like to be using a clamshell device designed for messaging - a QWERTY keyboard, a decent-sized screen, but something that's slender and not very big (the PDA2K is too big for me).
An interesting article by Russell Beatie. He's exceedingly biased against Microsoft, and doesn't understand the difference between a Phone Edition device and a Smartphone, but it's still an interesting read. ;-) What do you think the future of form factors holds? What would your perfect device be? Myself, since I don't talk on the phone that much but still need to have one with me, I'd like to be using a clamshell device designed for messaging - a QWERTY keyboard, a decent-sized screen, but something that's slender and not very big (the PDA2K is too big for me).
