Analyze this:

Ankyo 850 PC Pocket Smartphone
w/full QWERTY keyboard,
tri-band operation on five continents,
eighty megabyte built-in memory,
high-speed data connectivity with EGPRS,
wireless LAN access,
Bluetooth wireless techology,
IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack support,
infrared, Pop-Port interface,
Symbian operating system version 7.0S,
Series 80 platform

Automatic switching between bands
and covers European networks

Is this based pretty much on a factual, available machine, or is it pretty much fictitious, designed to impress the reader(of a John Grisham novel)? If true, how sophisticated, up to date is it? [It's a good book read, btw.]

 

A lot of that stuff is already in place. The 80 Meg of Ram is a bit much. Also while possible phone companies enter agreements with networks preventing the network switching. I could see the government getting access to something like this now, but odds of anyone else wouldn't be good. Plus I've got to think if its autoswitching you run the risk of dropping a call a LOT because of the different network types.

 

This posts is*very*informative.*Thank you!

 

Yes, well done! Thanks for the info!