[94140] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andre Oppermann)
Wed Jan 10 11:10:39 2007
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:01:49 +0100
From: Andre Oppermann <nanog-list@nrg4u.com>
To: Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <a2b2d0480701100725p766343e1j10c9ea26eb256193@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Alexander Harrowell wrote:
> Analogous to the question of whether digicams, iPods etc will
> eventually be absorbed by mobile devices.
I guess eventually it will go the other way around as well. I was
very surprised not to see Steve Jobs announce an iPod Nano-Phone.
A iPod Nano with bare-bone GSM functionality as provided by one
of the recent single-chip developments from TI and SiLabs AeroFon.
Would fit nicely and cover 85% of all use cases, that is voice and
SMS. True mass-market. Pop in your SIM and you're ready to rock.
A slightly enhanced click-wheel would make a nice input device too
(and no, do not emulate a rotary phone). All together would cost
only $15 more than the base iPod. GSM single chip is really cheap.
Yeah, I'm a dreamer.
--
Andre
