Innovating the Mobile Phone
About a year ago I had come up with an idea where your watch communicated with your mobile phone, via bluetooth, to display information such as caller id. The reasoning is that I hate having to pull out my mobile phone all the time to see who is calling. I also frequently leave my phone at my desk which sometimes puts me out of range to hear the phone or forces me to run to my phone just to see that it is a phone call that I don’t want to take.
None of the major mobile phone makers have seemed to come up with this idea–most haven’t even put bluetooth in their phones.
Nokia is getting close though. They’ve just announced a device which is akin to a “digital locket” of sorts. The HS-13w communicates via bluetooth to your Nokia phone and gives you the means to browse through phone book contacts, display images, and actually make and receive calls.
Currently Nokia seems to be the only mobile phone maker to push the technology and innovate. While I can’t say I would use the “digital locket” I feel that the concept is in the right direction. I’m sure it is only a matter of time before Nokia makes a watch, thus fulfilling my original idea.
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