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The iPhone for your home phoneline?
Posted on January 09, 2008
John Sculley touted his OpenFrame phone at CES yesterday, positioning it as the iPhone for the home phoneline. It's a nice looking phone no doubt, and he says he's lining up carriers for distribution. I have my doubts it will succeed. High end phones for home have never sold that well. When I was part of the Windows CE group at Microsoft we built one of these devices in the late 1990's. Codenamed Hermes, it sported a touch screen, address book, internet connectivity and more. The bill of materials costs for the phone put it out of the reach of the average consumer, so we cancelled the...
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