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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?
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Don't tease, tell me the price of a secure desktop phone ;-) VNC is nice, but I'd rather not be dependend on the network. Syncing is my idea. This includes using syncml to reinstall my Nokia phone with my fav. applications after a firmware upgrade!
Posted by: snoyt | April 2, 2008 04:11 AMHave you tried Mobile Web Server?
Posted by: Jukka Eklund | April 2, 2008 04:12 AMHave you seen the Nokia noBounds video?
http://www.internettablettalk.com/2008/03/14/the-nobounds-project/
Posted by: Stefan Constantinescu | April 2, 2008 04:41 AM@stefan I had forgotten about this. A more refined version of noBounds--as well as one geared at S60 versus Maemo--would be hot :)
@jukka I have tried MWS, but at least at the time, it didn't solve a problem I had.
@snoyt What if a firmware upgrade didn't wipe your applications to begin with?
Posted by: PhoneBoyWhen more devices come with the ability to update firmware OTA, and without losing major settings, this will be my ideal setup.
Currently, the TV-Out facilities of the N95 series of devices does allow for this. However, one cannot update the firmware without a Windows box, so its still a mobile computer dependent on another to be completely set-alone. That being said, this is something that I am working towards personally as I can get along with a BT keyboard and N95 connected to my TV for my computing needs.
Solutions like noBounds, and the Ceilo Redfly are solid ones that I would expect to see Nokia explore as their hardware is certainly there, and most of the core software is as well.
MWS would be a better solution for when someone wants to make their mobile the center of an entire thin-client network. That is something that would be very cool, but we are ways from people accepting that paradigm (completely).
If this is something that Nokia is wishing to push (louder), I'd gladly speak about it more. Its really a smarter way to do computing for several types of users.
Posted by: Antoine of MMM | April 18, 2008 08:12 PM