Modular camphones
Rob Enderle over at eWeek suggests some kind of modular system where users would be able to pop the cameras out of their phones and PDAs (sorry, but that is never going to happen) or (somewhat more plausibly) that people abandon their all-in-one gadgets.
People, start your wayback machines and watch in aw and wonder the ingenious engineering of times long forgotten: siemens quickpic camera iqp-500, sonyericsson communicam mobile camera mca-30, veo photo traveler 130s, and there’re lots more of these add-on cameras. Everyone i know hates the idea of add-on cameras and i don’t know anybody who actually bought one.
I’m less surprised that rob enderle tries to sell some old stuff as his personal insights, but rather worried that the fine folks over @engadget suffer from some kind of memory loss, i mean they basically spend all day searching for new gizmos but can’t remember the dawn of multimedia capable phones?
Update: you can read a followup here.