There's a huge significance in Russell Buckley's vision of the future, I know there is, even if the realisation is still a few years in the future. Here's part 2 of his musings over on MobHappy, and here's part 1, in case you missed it. If I were Russell, I'd be considering a trip down the patent office...
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It's a nice idea and I agree that things will probably be a bit like this in the future. As for the patent office, Uncle Bill did a presentation on exactly this a few months ago (maybe Cebit - not sure) so I suspect MS may have beaten him to it (if someone else hasn't already beaten MS). He showd a video that had someone picking up their (windows mobile) phone and heading off to the airport. The flight is delayed so they head over to a workstation where there is a wireless monitor, keyboard and mouse. The phone hooks into these and the bloke starts working on something or other.
Basically, his phone was his PC. It had all his data, applications and processing power. But, how he accessed it depended on where he was an what wireless interfaces were available to him. On it's own, it's a phone and PDA. With a keyboard and mouse, it's an input device. Add a monitor, it's a full PC with integrated wireless modem.
The future is now.... PC PHONE :icon14:
The Bill Gates demo referred to above is all online here
The bit in question starts at about 10 minutes.
Steve Litchfield