#1 I can think of is if I could plug it into my keyboard and save the phone list. Every time I get a new phone I have to redo the phone list.
#2 improvement would be to allow me to use my computer keyboard to text on.
So if I plugged my cell phone into my computer and maybe it showed an external hard drive. All I'd have to do is drag and drop from cell phone to computer and back.
Some people may not see this as important but the ability to receive data via text message and later play with it on my laptop (and save my phone list on my laptop for the next time I drop my cell phone in a puddle) is priceless.
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This idea should have not been posted under the category "Making Government Operations More Open", because it has nothing to do with the government.
On the other hand Verizon Wireless already has web based backup tool where you can backup your phone list and also edit your phone list and download it in your cellphone. Most wireless providers should have similar service for this purpose.
The government has nothing to do with this idea, please delete.
Save up your money and buy a G1 or other Android-powered mobile phone, there are free/cheap apps that will let you do almost all of this. Super-cheap phones don't have advanced features, sorry.
Actually it does have everything to do with it. If the government provides data that I can access with my computer why shouldn't I be able to access it with my cell phone.
Of course there are limitations to the cell phones which should be addressed if you want to down load data more easily.
And you should be able to access your cell phone from your computer so I can transfer data easily from one tool to the other.
All the rest of that stuff was in another post also by me and I thought everybody who read it would make the connection. Obviously I was wrong but we're brainstorming so there should be built in flexibility. I imagine if I broke the rules the moderator would remove my post automatically.
This isn't a government problem/area of control. Government data is (supposed to be) available via an array of means. If there's a market for this (and there is), then let the market address it so our Government can focus on what it was intended to do.
I completely disagree. But I'm not willing to explain further other than to suggest that the government that waits for market pressures to bring about technological change that provides equal access to government data for the poor as well as the rich isn't a government for the people. A government for the people has to worry more about that equal access and less about capital markets.
Government in banking. Government in the auto business, Government soon to be in the healthcare and energy business. Government in the data business... yeah sure.. this is exactly where they need to be.
I trust them wholeheartedly.
How about Government out of our lives...there's a novel approach to business and life.