IXI

[Guest Big Ron - No Longer a Mem]

Back when the SPV was first reviewed, Guy Kewney (whose opinions I have long respected - he's one of the UK's oldest established and best connected IT journalists) mentioned in his PCW column an Israeli company called IXI; (he also gave the SPV a guardedly supportive review, AND IIRC, wrote ZDNET's review of the SPV.) Not sure why, but I just emembered that, and visited www.ixi.com to see what he was talking about.

What I found was "a different approach to the smartphone concept". A modular unit, not an "all-in-one, one-size-fits-all" solution. Given the existence of a "wish list" section of the Modaco forum, this might seem a sensible way forward. If you WANT the extra functions/features... buy them as plug-in extras. It seems to have worked for the desktop PC....!

Any thoughts?

[Guest Hax]

Most people want all the function in one easy to carry device - well, at least that's my reason for replacing my nearly new 8310! There'd have been no way that I would have carried both a mobile and a PDA around with me, and the XDA equivalents were just too big. So, the SPV is (as I see it) the first step towards getting an all-in-one mobile/pda that is reasonably compatible with the PC and has the ability of running other apps too (although Orange are doing their best to kill that part :)

So, as for having a modular system, I'd have to say that I'd rather not. As it is, I find that with the camera not being incorporated into the design of the phone, it generally just gets left, unused, in a drawer. Had it been built into the phone (which goes nearly everywhere with me) then I would have a lot more value out of it as I would have at just the point when you think to yourself "if only I had a camera to take of picture of that....." This nearly swayed me towards the 7650 - but that was just a tad too BIG!

Anyway, just my thoughts!

Adam