The Future Treo Display(s)

Back in August last year I wrote a post describing what I imagined might become the mobile industry's next 'Big Thing' and by extension the future of our beloved Treo.

My idea, still sketchy at the time, was that any content or application on my Treo could be seamlessly 'extended' to a PC monitor or TV set in close proximity.  Moreover, I also suggested that given increasingly larger projected bandwidth availability via our Treo the time would one day come where our smartphone could be used to work with remote applications and thus increasingly altogether substitute a PC.

We're not there yet but a very interesting recent article by Guy Kewney at The Register - in which he briefly covers a viewpoint heard in Symbian - closely resembles what I had in mind:

The future of phone displays is going to be "whatever display is nearest."

They [Symbian] believe that at some point in the future, the phone in your pocket will merely be your "authority" to use a display. If there is a wide-screen plasma display in the corner, you can (for a small fee, perhaps) switch from your phone's own tiny window on the world, into a far bigger view. Or if you sit down at a desk with a PC on it, the data will remain the same, but the keyboard and display will shift from your hand-held, to the desktop.

I can't wait for the future to arrive and already dream of the day that we'll all be using our Treo this way.

Treo PC & TV: The Race is On [Treonauts]
Landscape fills with PDA smart phones [The Register]

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