A Jpeg browser device like Digital Photo Album. It has a LCD Screen and a FM Radio interface. It costs less that $100 or comes free with 5 yrs subscription to a paper. - The SmartRadio
This was an idea for Apps like Browser and Email..This is for any device phone or laptop a user interface for people who need it like when Cooking or Driving. People with disabilities or injuries. BlackBerry Phone had a nice incorporation of the text to action.
The days of Voice Communication are coming to an end. In fact it has been happening in the background all along. It is Digital Replacing Analog Everywhere. Voice is now data. In the future Voice Communication is just an App you need to buy as an option.
Whatever the struggle between technologies, The future communications will be just Broadband Wireless Devices with Voice, Data and Web all in one. The intermediate technologies we see today, the Transitional Technologies are part of a Large Learning Curve. The future may be more of Optics, WiMax and more like Any Device can do Anything. Not Convergence but more an Intermeshed Collage.
Early Innovations on Landline Phones were Answering Machine, Music-on-Hold and Fax Machines. Later landmines were used for BBS and then DUN (Dial up Networking) Internet. Then came the Big Freeze.
My first data experience before the internet was Delrina WinFax. It helped one of my friends get a job in Europe too. A fax machine was expensive, a Gateway 2000 modem was not. (this modem took me first online at home)
Cable Internet, Broadband Internet and 3G etc. have pushed the Landline phone in a corner.
I am using Internet on my Landline and it is pretty good. This may not be affordable by all, as a PC or Laptop is needed and the extra Broadband charges. This is just using the same line. My LandLine phone still is UnEvolved.
What i am trying to say is .....Add SMS at least for all Landlines with no extra monthly cost other than the SMS cost. If Possible add a means of slow File Transfer like FAX. A USB port on this device below will do.
This will help many use Data on the Telephone lines without buying a PC or Fax machine. The SMS will be a Super Hit. Voice Mail can alo be done. No Internet required.
The most financially stressed families in the most remote locations can SMS and if possible send their JPG photo or resume over the Normal Phone Connection at only the extra cost of data transfer.
I got my a Landline a few days back, The phone was one with a LCD, It is a very nice phone with a large LCD, but i had trouble using the phone book, as i kept forgetting the sequence.
These Landline phones occupy a prominent position on the desktops of all offices. The CEO, Marketing Manager and Purchasing Officer; or even at the Canteen, we see these phones. The potential for marketing and advertising is good in these, as they are still popular in the office environment. A firm can show its flash presentation or a product catalog, when a customer waits for the despatch details of a product he ordered.
A Landline Phone also may be interesting with a touch screen and built in web browser. This phone can also have the option of WiMax, in areas where it is available.
This was posted around 2007-8 in a Blog Nomadic Computing and later in delabs Design Devices.
ideas of delabs - id1018
Suppose you want to have a simple means of communication with a known
individual online without the need to a routine task to check or sort
mail, there is, we know a solution. which is instant text messaging.
Spam in this is very rare.
Secure Authenticated News is hard to find
Now an alert comes by email, about some secure site, you have to first find if it is real or it is a phishing-spoof. You first go in your browser to your secure-site and verify. So communication of such kind has to be a combination of Instant-messaging and email. If the secure site sends a IM + eMail. Then you know it is real. As you have only known contacts on your IM.
Now one step further, if the secure site in which you have your account has a secure encrypted rss-xml feed of your account which can only be read with an user-id and password.
Now You have a feedreader for secure sites with provision for authentication. You place your accounts feed and setup the login. Now once a day or once a week it reads the encrypted private feed and you are updated about the status of your secure account. The Client feedreader also can be given access by secure site, which will note the programs serial number and vendor number and the NIC Number.
(Idea - Wednesday, December 27, 2006, Revised - 31 March 2007, Nature - Open Source)
delabs 2006 updated 2007
ideas of delabs - id1042
Secure Authenticated News is hard to find
Now an alert comes by email, about some secure site, you have to first find if it is real or it is a phishing-spoof. You first go in your browser to your secure-site and verify. So communication of such kind has to be a combination of Instant-messaging and email. If the secure site sends a IM + eMail. Then you know it is real. As you have only known contacts on your IM.
Now one step further, if the secure site in which you have your account has a secure encrypted rss-xml feed of your account which can only be read with an user-id and password.
Now You have a feedreader for secure sites with provision for authentication. You place your accounts feed and setup the login. Now once a day or once a week it reads the encrypted private feed and you are updated about the status of your secure account. The Client feedreader also can be given access by secure site, which will note the programs serial number and vendor number and the NIC Number.
(Idea - Wednesday, December 27, 2006, Revised - 31 March 2007, Nature - Open Source)
delabs 2006 updated 2007
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