SmartPhones

With the increasing popularity of Virtual Desktops, the increasing capabilities of smart phones, and the increasing pervasiveness of speedy networks, the day will soon be upon use when people start using their smartphones as a secondary laptop or desktop PC.

One writer looked forward to the day this "Nirvana SmartPhone" comes to market and offers readers a sneak peek at how this product of the future will look and feel, and what it will do.

Like the Nokia N95 and certain PDAs, the Nirvana smartphone will have a Video Out. The iPhone already has such functionality, but it's limited. The upcoming i-Mate promises to improve upon it. The Nirvana smartphone will also have a keyboard and mouse and a docking station.

It's probably obvious to most technophiles that such a Nirvana smartphone would have improved and enhanced music, video, photo, and voice capabilities, but there are endless other innovative uses for the burgeoning technology including: web-enabling all of the televisions in your home, and conducting video conferences through your TV.

Read more about it at BrianMadden.

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The U.K. Times Online reports that the Ravenstone Primary School in Wandsworth, South London has distributed free smartphones to a class of 7-year-olds.

In line with their stated goal of embracing the integration of high-tech technology into their educational curricula, and thanks in large part to a hefty donation from an unnamed sponsor, the school is participating in a research project designed to determine the relative cost-effectiveness of using technology as teaching and study aid.While a class of older children received free Apple laptops, the smartphones that the younger students were given were feature packed with:

• a video camera
• internet access
• voice-recording capabilities
• satellite navigation

The handheld devices are expected to be of use to the students in every area of their studies including:

• geography
• math
• English
• and music

For more on this experiment in technology education, read the full story in TimesOnline

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