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I have always thought of a smart mobile phone that would suit consumers according to thier carriers or life styles. Why not have handsets with different measuring instruments critical to a certain group of people. For nurses and doctors standard instuments would be those for measuring blood pressure, temperature, pulse rate etc. For electricians; ammeter, voltmeter, phase rotation meter, small tourch, live cable detector. For Models and Actors: a camera with a make up suggesion software, a calorie counter and a uv level indicator with a buzzer. For Detectives and Special Agents; a lie detector/truth finder, fingerprint reader with intergration to the main computer at Police HQ. For children; Only 3 buttons H, P and M/D i.e. Home, Police (911), and Mum/Dad respectively I guess there is no need for a screen display for this one but two LEDs green and red, incoming and out going calls respectively. This will reduce the number of gargets people carry every day.
cvjosh, May 10 2005
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At least in the case of medical and technical test instruments, the useability and accuracy of those devices would be compromised, compared to the standalone counterparts of those instruments, and add significant cost to the unit as a whole comared to the devices separately.
Things such as industry specific information managers and calculators would be doable, as add on software to stock phones.
Perhaps a better suggestion would be a PDA with a standard component slot for each of these components to interact with. That's been attempted by a company called Handspring http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handspring The component slot itself was called the "Springboard" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springboard_Expansion_Slot It was moderately successful, but ultimately the slot was simply too large for the PDA to include, and prevented the devices (Palms, basically) from becoming smaller, so they dropped it.