Frankly, it is getting to the point where I want a VERY simple phone in my pocket.
standard buttons, minimalist display, and bluetooth (headset and connection to another device, more on that in a moment...)
Either that, or a stand-alone phone-in-an-earpiece that is voice controlled and responsive, that doesn't require numerical buttons to make a phone call, that also can bluetooth pair to another device...
And either phone module I just mentioned, would bluetooth connect to a larger screen device, such as an iPad mini or full size iPad.
It would sync the contact list phone numbers for voice-responsive dialing.
It would cooperate on internet-search results as phone numbers. touch a phone number on your screen device, and it would hand off the call to your simple phone device. It could do this from your laptop or desktop computer, as well.
An incoming phone call would bluetooth signal your screen device to mute sounds and pause music playback.
Basically the way an iPhone acts... but with the phone device being separate from the screen device, and the phone device being MUCH smaller and more ergonomic.
and the phone device would operate as a "dumb" phone (phone calls, speed dial, 911 access, and basic text messages via voice or numeric keypad entry) without any screen device present.
Put the internet and apps and such on a screen device like iPod Touch, iPad Mini, and iPad, as an alternative to iPhone. an all-in-one iPhone would still make sense to offer, of course. This would be an alternative, not a replacement.
The big difference between this and a bluetooth earpiece paired to an iPad cellular unit, would be that the earpiece would still work as a phone in and of itself, without the iPad being present, if you don't have one, don't want one, or simply aren't carrying it at the moment.
I find myself using my data features less and less, and in circumstances when I already have the iPad or laptop handy anyway, and if I don't have those things handy... usually I only want the phone in my pocket for a basic communication tether to work and family, or emergency.
I could relatively easily migrate to a dumb-phone and iPad Mini tablet arrangement... if only dumb-phone was well built, well designed, light, robust, and designed like an apple product, would intuitively integrate WITH the iPad, like apple product integration.
A small, light weight phone device that would fold out into an earpiece/boom mic, and fold back up into a rectangular device that fits into my pocket when I don't want to wear it on my ear, and was voice-commanded (and actually WORKS when commanded, and could alternatively receive commands from a paired screen device) might actually be innovative...
standard buttons, minimalist display, and bluetooth (headset and connection to another device, more on that in a moment...)
Either that, or a stand-alone phone-in-an-earpiece that is voice controlled and responsive, that doesn't require numerical buttons to make a phone call, that also can bluetooth pair to another device...
And either phone module I just mentioned, would bluetooth connect to a larger screen device, such as an iPad mini or full size iPad.
It would sync the contact list phone numbers for voice-responsive dialing.
It would cooperate on internet-search results as phone numbers. touch a phone number on your screen device, and it would hand off the call to your simple phone device. It could do this from your laptop or desktop computer, as well.
An incoming phone call would bluetooth signal your screen device to mute sounds and pause music playback.
Basically the way an iPhone acts... but with the phone device being separate from the screen device, and the phone device being MUCH smaller and more ergonomic.
and the phone device would operate as a "dumb" phone (phone calls, speed dial, 911 access, and basic text messages via voice or numeric keypad entry) without any screen device present.
Put the internet and apps and such on a screen device like iPod Touch, iPad Mini, and iPad, as an alternative to iPhone. an all-in-one iPhone would still make sense to offer, of course. This would be an alternative, not a replacement.
The big difference between this and a bluetooth earpiece paired to an iPad cellular unit, would be that the earpiece would still work as a phone in and of itself, without the iPad being present, if you don't have one, don't want one, or simply aren't carrying it at the moment.
I find myself using my data features less and less, and in circumstances when I already have the iPad or laptop handy anyway, and if I don't have those things handy... usually I only want the phone in my pocket for a basic communication tether to work and family, or emergency.
I could relatively easily migrate to a dumb-phone and iPad Mini tablet arrangement... if only dumb-phone was well built, well designed, light, robust, and designed like an apple product, would intuitively integrate WITH the iPad, like apple product integration.
A small, light weight phone device that would fold out into an earpiece/boom mic, and fold back up into a rectangular device that fits into my pocket when I don't want to wear it on my ear, and was voice-commanded (and actually WORKS when commanded, and could alternatively receive commands from a paired screen device) might actually be innovative...
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