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On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:56:55 -0800, "Andy (Super) Glew"
<andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> wrote:

>On 2/29/2012 6:18 AM, Paul A. Clayton wrote:
>
>> Would it be practical to have a small form factor UI
>> device using a personal area network to communicate with a
>> larger device?  People already accept bluetooth headsets,
>> so it might be possible for the actual phone to grow in
>> physical size while the typically used interface component
>> is relatively small.  (If a hip holster was used, marketing
>> might call it a Hipster. :-)
>
>Yes. And that's a reasonable step.
>
>However, I would prefer not t o have to carry both devices.  I tend to 
>want the smaller device(s) when I am doing something like hiking or 
>running, when I really don't want to have a bigger device jostling in my 
>backpack.
>
>Now, in the places I hike (and live :-( ) cell phone connectivity is 
>sporadic, so I might not need such a device to be a "phone" that is 
>always connected.  Perhaps it would be okay to synchronize when back on 
>my PAN with my bigger devices.  But I know that I don't want to have to 
>plug it in to synch. (I don't even want to have to plug it in to charge 
>up.  I'd love it if energy scavenging could power the iPod shuffle I 
>listen to podcasts on.)

My model for usability always has been the "Global Link" from the TV
show "Earth Final Conflict".   There don't seem to be many pictures of
it available on the web ... best image I can find is here:
http://earthfinalconflict.wikia.com/wiki/File:Global.jpg

For those not familiar, the Global Link was a combination voice/video
phone and cloud enabled pad computer with a pull-out touchscreen that
(presumably) rolled into the body of the device when closed.  The
picture at the link above shows it partially extended or possibly
there were different models: I remember fully extended screens looking
to be roughly 6 inches wide.  
[Assuming 4 inch height that would make it ~7 inch diagonal.] 

A few years ago, a company called Polymer Vision created the "Readius"
- a 3G phone with a folding 5 inch E-Ink display.  It made a brief
splash in the news and then disappeared.  Probably not durable enough.

YMMV
George

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