John's Phone: a minimalist cell phone

Re:John's Phone: a minimalist cell phone by Tichy on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @07:22AM (#2143039)

I would love it if it would print out the SMS on small slips of paper.

Maybe it could have a scanner, too, so that you could write SMS on paper and feed it to the phone.

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Re:John's Phone: a minimalist cell phone by jacquesm on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @07:41AM (#2143073)

I know you're joking but someone actually took out a patent on something pretty close to that:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Mobile-Phone-with-a-Built...

Wasn't there a James Bond movie where a strip of paper came out of the side of a wristwatch?

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Re:John's Phone: a minimalist cell phone by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @08:37AM (#2143205)

An SMS fax machine ...

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Re:John's Phone: a minimalist cell phone by beoba on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @11:42AM (#2143807)

I think that would be pretty bad, you'd have to get paper refills approx every 5 seconds (and there'd need to be room for that paper to be stored somewhere), and the text recognition would have to either be perfect or extremely cumbersome.

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