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> Anyway, your point reminds me that the my "dream smartphone" would be one with no cellular connectivity at all. You mean a PDA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
by cesarb 4y ago
> Anyway, your point reminds me that the my "dream smartphone" would be one with no cellular connectivity at all.
You mean a PDA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_digital_assistant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_digital_assistant)? Modern smartphones are basically a PDA with cellular connectivity (this is more obvious with early smartphones like the Treo 650), so if you take out the cellular connectivity, what you have is once again a PDA.
- happymellon 4y agoPersonally what I want is a dumb flip phone which can act as a 4/5G hotspot for my 7" tablet. When I'm on the internet, browing maps, reading books, I find a phone screen too small. But I don't want a massive phone. A dumb flip phone that lasts a week on a charge so that I can camp with it, combined with a 7" tablet that I can throw in my bag, for when I want to read, but doesn't need cellular connectivity so that it lasts without spying on me.
- rglullis 4y agoI don't think this distinction makes any sense nowadays. A "smartphone without cellular connectivity" is a lot more than a "Personal Digital Assistant". Could a Palm Pilot stream music? Did it have an app store? GPS? Microphone? Could it make VoIP calls? Could it connect with an external modem so that it could work as a softphone?
- yellowapple 4y agoIf Palm were to create the Pilot in 2023, it would almost certainly be designed to support all those features, yes.
- rglullis 4y agoYes, and it wouldn't be marketed as a PDA.
- yellowapple 4y agoThen what would it be marketed as? It's personal, it's digital, and it's an assistant; those things don't go away from adding more features.
- rglullis 4y agoA tablet is personal It's digital. It's an assistant. But no one calls them "PDAs"