Is mobile the future?

[Carrie]

I see so many people here with cellphones, I sometimes feel like I'm an ancient holdout. But as popular as mobile is here, the billing just hasn't taken off like it has everywhere else. I'm still scratching my head over that one.

Voltar had the newbies buying up mobile domains yearsssss ago - even started a link list and targeted Google spidering effort for sites that could be displayed on those tiny little screen. The night he was on the (web) radio - I think with Snoops? - the registrars were getting slammed with mobile registrations.

I saw an ad for a camera phone just recently that spins to open up (anyone know which one I mean?) and it has a nice big screen on the back. Almost the whole size of the phone, it looked like. Now if *that* is where the screens on these things are headed, then content delivery in the adult market is about to really take off. As it stands now though, there's still a long wait before it's really big.

For non-adult, or for adult content that doesn't depend on pictures/video? The market's ripe...

[Dravyk]

The coolest one I've seen -- someone else no doubt knows the one I mean -- is where the cellphone is hinged. It looks like a cellphone, then it opens on the side, you turn it around horizontally and it's a decent sized screen with a long width (probably the 16:9 HD dimensions) and the bottom section gives one a larger keyboard than any other portable device I've seen.

Natch, it would probably be a bit more burdensome than a regular cell because of it's size, but instead of carting around a PDA or a Blackberry or a cell with a palm-top both, it would probably be worth it.

Again though, notice, that's just for Net connectability. Still not big into playing songs on it, watching streaming TV on it or using it as a video camera either.