| ??? 10/04/11 18:09 Read: times |
#184030 - Already there since several years Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Richard Erlacher said:
What puzzles me is that there isn't a simple USB/PCMCIA/whatever attachment to a notebook that allows the thing to connect to the cellular network and make the notebook, with the addition of a headset, function as a cellphone, without any additional hardware. Goodness knows, they seem to want, as you've pointed out, a cellphone that behaves as a PC. But there is. It's called a modem. Not all modems take a wire to the POTS network. Todays modems are just an USB/PCMCIA/whatever attachment that connects your notebook with the world using the cellular network. For WiFi, you don't need anything. The WiFi part, BlueTooth etc are standard parts of the notebook. So With that card or USB thumb/dongle and a BlueTooth headset you would have the smartest of smart phones. Stupid notions, like that, aside, the flexible display would be a convenient way to add a notebook-sized display to a more-or-less normal-sized "smartphone," and I'm told micro-USB-intefaced keyboards are already in use on some of them. Most of these smart phones are USB devices and not USB hosts. But they do support BlueTooth-connected keyboards. And they also often have HDMI or composite video output for driving a TV. |
