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My cell phone is off and on charge while i take a break from communication. It charges up really fast which is a bad sign. It means I have cooked the little lithium ion battery. My wife's cell phone was also in need of a battery. A battery costs as much as a phone. So we went on a snowy outing in the trusty Jeep and got her a new phone. I'm always confused by the cell phone rules and customs and marketing. Some of my questions may sound like a geezer rant. Do you think? Why must all the cell phones have a camera? Why does cell phone usage require a contract? Why, until recently, were all the charging device plugs non standardized? Why was the internet $30 per month on the phone my wife liked, but only $10 on a less smart phone? Why are the buttons so small on the keyboards? Do we really want our phones to talk to us?
The biggest problem to me seems to be the feature creep that makes the phone so complicated doing things that we could do better at home or at work, with a computer. I predict that in a few years this feature creep will yield us an amazing portable device. It will be a sort of net book small lap top cell phone thing that will so do everything. It will be on the net via satellite, the phone the same way, have everything a smart phone has of course, but much more. you won't need a contract except to get to the satellite. Of course it will have a great camera! Because in a few years there will be a law that all portable devices must have a camera. We all know this "do it all" cell phone is coming, and from what i saw at the Verizon store, it's mostly here. So? Here's the rest of my prediction: At some point after the "personal portable satellite computer communication tool is in all of our hands, and has become a "mine's bigger than yours" status symbol, a new discovery will be made. A genius in Silicon Valley or Madison Avenue will "invent" something really cool. It will be the newest rage. The genius will invent a communication device so clean and simple everyone will want one.... to go with their other equipment. It will be a phone. Just a phone. Not even a camera! You'll just pick it up to call someone and that's all you'll do with it. Then you can put it back in your pocket or purse and get back to taking pictures or videos or writing texts or e mails. It's a great concept. I know it's too radical an idea now. We're just not ready for it. LLITTY ::::+::::