On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:15:00 GMT, wrote:


So, not too far in the future, you will be able to listen to
the Grand Canyon Suite on your phone MP3 player while taking
pictures of the Grand Canyon on your phone, e-mailing the pictures
to Aunt Agatha from your phone, while noting your precise location
on the GPS display on your phone for future reference (Aunt Agatha,
this is the spot to go to) all while getting the ball game scores.

From what guys at the chip makers are telling me, you can already buy
phones that do all that and more in storefront shops in Seoul and
Shanghai. But the North American market is too small, the churn too
slow, and the infrastructure too anitquated compared to Asia to be of
much concern to cellphone makers. Still, the new phones will have all
that stuff in firmware -- it costs too muchto make different chips for
different markets -- but the carriers here won't implement it.

Don