S60 Open to new features

We recently had a meeting with everyone working on the S60 blogs in the Americas. As the meeting was early in the morning--during a time where I need to make sure my son gets ready for school--it meant being outside my home office. Fortunately, I have a work laptop and, of course, my mobile phone--a Nokia N95. The laptop was to view the presentation given remotely, the phone was to listen and participate.

This got me thinking. Is it possible to do all of this with a mobile device? Could it be possible for me to view a remote presentation and be on a conference call? Here are some of the challenges today:

1. Screen Size: I was having difficulty viewing the slides on a 1024x768 screen on my laptop. How would slides look on a smaller screen?
2. Dual Mode Connectivity: Certainly, 3G handsets with a 3G network support being connected with data and voice at the same time. The same can be said for WiFi-enabled handsets as well.
3. Battery Life: Being connected to voice and data simultaneously can be quite a drain on the battery.
4. Enterprise Connectivity: Since this presentation was being shared inside the firewall, the handset would need to be able to connect into the corporate network in order to view the presentation. Nokia has a solution for this problem, fortunately, but I do not have it installed on this handset.
5. Cross-Platform Screen Sharing With S60 Support: Do any of the common methods for sharing screens and presentations include S60 support?

Is it even possible to do this today, even if the experience is sub-optimal? Do you want this kind of functionality? Leave your thoughts in the comments.

I was listening to Episode 127 of Mobile Tech Roundup on my Nokia N95 today and they were discussing a device that has some interesting applications. The device in question essentially provides a full-sized screen and keyboard for your mobile phone. Suddenly, your entire computing environment can reside on your mobile phone. When you need the big screen and keyboard, just hook it to your phone.

Over the years, I've heard one of the "dreams" of network computing is that you can sit down and work at one location and easily pick up right where you left off at a different computer without skipping a beat. This can be accomplished with tools like VNC or Windows Remote Desktop.

If you can carry the "brains" of your computing environment in your pocket, why would you mess around with things like VNC or Remote Desktop? Plug your phone into your large screen and keyboard, do your work, unplug your mobile phone, take it somewhere else. Plug it into a different screen and keyboard, and you have your full environment right there. And, of course, you can also interact with it from the mobile handset itself!

For the most part, I already do a fair amount of computing from my S60 device. Lack of a full-sized screen and keyboard are certainly factors that limit my ability to do more. There's a lot of issues to work out with this idea, but it has quite a lot of appeal to me.

What do the rest of you think?