Digital phone networks like ADSL now have a multimedia telephone that takes
full advantage of its capacity. The Broadband Phone from AT&T’s British lab
in Cambridge lets you draw and e-mail pictures, play online computer games and
surf the Web—as well as hold an old-fashioned conversation. The phone’s
software is held on a hard-to-hack remote server that can turn the phone’s
screen into a phone keypad, computer keyboard, a monitor for viewing web pages
or a touch-sensitive sketchpad.
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