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Everyone knows smartphones are a success, and beeper were a popular product, but they vanished they vanished after the exponential grow of cellphones, however, beepers are still being used in places like hospitals and businesses, so why not update their technology to this devices? they could have the
ability to receive messages, email and voicemail, have a color display, games, personalized beeps, wi-fi, GPS and other stuff.
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So... turn beepers into smartphones? |
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The main reason that many hospitals still use
beepers is that they are relatively simple and will
work in areas where the signal is too poor for a
smartphone - like the basement of a large hospital
that's built with a steel frame that blocks phone
signals. |
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[MaxwellBuchanan], is that a matter of the frequency-range used for
beepers, vs the frequency ranges used for smarphone
conversations? Why not just build the phone to include the beeper
frequency range? |
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I'm not sure if they operate on a different
frequency, but they are widely cited as working in
environments where mobile phones don't. |
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[+] Offline things like gps, and number-specific ringtones could be done and is a pretty good idea, perhaps incorporate a few more bits into the message for flags indicating priority, or pending text/voice-message in a phone-accessible mailbox, |
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but anything more complex/long-winded compromises the simplicity/price of the pager service. I haven't worn one in ages but remember that a simple telephone number, which is the only message a beeper gets, is less than 6 bytes of data even with an extension#. |
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Before their decline, beepers were developed with
some of these functions (text messages, for
instance). |
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