現在各大廠商都出PDA+手提電話二合一，Palm 和 Win.CE 也有不同的型號供消費者選擇。Microsoft也有自己品牌的 SmartPhone。
不知道Apple會不會有自己的品牌手提電話？或者和其他廠商合作OEM？
如果Apple要附合自己的「Digital Hub」口號，有無線、上網功能的手提電話，和Mac機交互資料，是用戶期待的產品之一。
個個都出電話，Apple出不出？
版主: Alex Tsai、cjtai、the real unknown
個個都出電話，Apple出不出？
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="XYZ">quote:</font><HR>原始發信人 簡蛇:
<STRONG>現在各大廠商都出PDA+手提電話二合一，Palm 和 Win.CE 也有不同的型號供消費者選擇。Microsoft也有自己品牌的 SmartPhone。</STRONG><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
A friend of mine bought one of the Microsoft mobiles and gave me a demo. Quite impressive.
The phone itself looks okay. It has got a large colour screen with very high resolution. One can read PowerPoint slides with it. As a compensation, however, the keypad is quite small and not easy to type.
You can check your email on the mobile with Outlook. It also keeps a diary which you can synchronise with the one on your computer. That's not different from a PDA but people like my friend do not carry PDAs with them all the time, while they do carry the mobile phone.
You can also run MSN Messenger to chat with people -- using the small keyboard.
And the games. It did not come with many games but I guess new games may be downloaded. One can then imagine they can charge the user per download. Probably soon we will see people playing online first-person shooting games with mobile phones, and users would be charged per minute... this is gonna bring the telecom companies a FORTUNE...
When I thought about that I was a bit scared. Well, not just the "evil M$ taking over the world" thing, but the overwhelming consumerism or captialism..
Oh, BTW, the monthly rent is just 6 pounds for the first 6 months, with unlimited Internet access. But he expect the price to raise very quick after the 6 month promotion and he would start to get charged per second or per byte, etc. He said he would start to use it less after the promotion but I doubt he will soon get hooked...
[ 11-21-2002: 留言編輯者: Paladin ]
<STRONG>現在各大廠商都出PDA+手提電話二合一，Palm 和 Win.CE 也有不同的型號供消費者選擇。Microsoft也有自己品牌的 SmartPhone。</STRONG><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
A friend of mine bought one of the Microsoft mobiles and gave me a demo. Quite impressive.
The phone itself looks okay. It has got a large colour screen with very high resolution. One can read PowerPoint slides with it. As a compensation, however, the keypad is quite small and not easy to type.
You can check your email on the mobile with Outlook. It also keeps a diary which you can synchronise with the one on your computer. That's not different from a PDA but people like my friend do not carry PDAs with them all the time, while they do carry the mobile phone.
You can also run MSN Messenger to chat with people -- using the small keyboard.
And the games. It did not come with many games but I guess new games may be downloaded. One can then imagine they can charge the user per download. Probably soon we will see people playing online first-person shooting games with mobile phones, and users would be charged per minute... this is gonna bring the telecom companies a FORTUNE...
When I thought about that I was a bit scared. Well, not just the "evil M$ taking over the world" thing, but the overwhelming consumerism or captialism..
Oh, BTW, the monthly rent is just 6 pounds for the first 6 months, with unlimited Internet access. But he expect the price to raise very quick after the 6 month promotion and he would start to get charged per second or per byte, etc. He said he would start to use it less after the promotion but I doubt he will soon get hooked...
[ 11-21-2002: 留言編輯者: Paladin ]