Re: [NTLK] Newton is dead, long live Newton.

Funny you should mention this idea. I saw something just like it once
on an unaired TV pilot called Global Frequency. (How I saw it, don't
ask. :-P )

But the Global Frequency was a shadowy organization that communicated
via these über-phones with just exactly the kind of detachable
earpieces you describe (at least 2/phone if memory serves), and
capable of streaming video over the cell network, taking pictures,
various sorts of readings, and displaying data I/O capabilities (such
as being able to provide a cellular data connection to any device it
could be interfaced with wired or wirelessly).

It was mighty kewl. If you can find it, you'd probably get a kick out
of the show.

For the record, I honestly think that, detachable earpieces aside,
the iPhone is a hacker's handheld wet dream and would have the Global
Frequency plotzing. ;-)

But that's just me.

-Sonya

Ed Kummel wrote:
> You know...I've long had this very same idea...and now that
> bluetooth has become so prevalent, there is no reason it can't
> happen. I envision that the earpiece at the top of a phone can
> become dicsonnected from the main body of the phone and becomes a
> seperate bluetooth enabled earpiece when seperate. When "docked" to
> the phone, it performs the function of a speaker and charges the
> battery...
> This is the level of utility I am looking for in a phone...

==
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