Not only are they regressing to Television sets as a “portal technology” but now both Yahoo and Google are “going mobile”. I swear if I didn’t know better I’d assume they had the same marketing department and shared it to cut costs.
While the cell phone has long been touted as the place to be in tech, it hasn’t really taken off. Now… don’t get me wrong. The little gadgets are useful devices. And in Japan, they’re huge on stuffing the kitchen sink worth of technology into them. But stateside we don’t really have much use for watching video on our phone. We just don’t have long commutes on public transport like the Japanese.
Which is why, even though a cell phone with a search engine is neat, it’s not as neat as a cell phone that places calls over 802.11b networks. That’s the kind of technology that’s useful in a phone
