I was expecting PDA capability --- I'm still using a Kyocera 6035, both because it's got a better antenna (works on remote mountain sites where no other cell phone can reach the closest tower --- I do a lot of field botany) and because it's also a basic Palm OS PDA. Exceedingly helpful.
I was
hoping for something first suggested long ago in the newsgroups, I recall someone from Apple even participating for a while. It was when the Palm III was still in use, long ago.
And I asked, how come I can't use the Palm, connected to my Powerbook in my backpack or briefcase by its direct cable, to pull up and read and edit text files? The Powerbook was able to run closed with the screen off without melting. The PDA was able to interface (nowadays it could be bluetooth or something).
It's nuts not to be able to use a handheld computer as a general purpose computing device ----- it's got to be in there.
I keep thinking, the Martians must be the ones who get to use Apple's hardware to its full extent. We know they have only one eye (mono not stereo vision) or we'd have stereo viewable computers for humans by now; the Apple phone screen is certainly good enough to split into two images, stereo left and stereo right, and a mere prism-lorgnette viewer is all it takes for most people to see stereo in that format.
Heck, I've made stereo movies on my Powerbook successfully, four years ago, ones that most people can view onscreen even without a prism device if they can see stereo by 'uncrossing' their eyes as many people can:
http://www.ankh.users.sonic.net/clouds-stereo.mpg
http://www.ankh.users.sonic.net/CatLooking-1064k.mpg
I've been able to view those on my Clie PDA. This sort of capability can't be beyond the Apple hardware. I only hope they're using the first "phone" version to develop the screen and box as a real computer.
Put two cameras on the back side of the device, and you've got a stereo movie camera, handheld, with wireless upload capability ---- not just a "phone" --- but a real tool.
Where IS the general purpose computing access to this hardware??
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