Bill Gates: Turn Cell Phones into Computers
Filed under: Cellphones, Gadgets, Laptops, Misc, Personal Computers, Portable Media
Bill Gates and Microsoft is proposing an inexpensive technology to bring computing to the developing world – turning a cell phone into a computer by connecting it to a TV and a keyboard.
The company’s chairman Bill Gates demonstrated a mockup of the proposed cellular PC at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January. Isn’t it great being the richest guy in the world and run a tech company. All the gadgets are yours.
He also said that the technology is cheaper than what is out there now.
“Everyone is going to have a cell phone,†said Microsoft’s vice president Craig J. Mundie.
In locales where television sets are already common, “turning a phone into a computer could simply require adding a cheap adaptor and keyboard,†the New York Times reports.
Mundie said there is no timetable for marketing the cell phone technology, and Microsoft has not said how much the devices would cost.
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