that's great but old network infrastructures need to be upgraded to handle 1 billion connections. Otherwise users will have an iPhone like phone with ATT like service...

This means O2 might have to bring in the second channel on their back bone and bring it up to 128k ISDN.
They won't like having to do that!

future vision moment? not having my network access fail when i'm half-way thr

how since the end is 2012?

Mine:

My HTC phone will be able to unlock my front door, set my alarm system, display my home cctv, switch lights on as I walk between rooms, remind me that my favourite tv show is about to start and give me the options to sky+ it, select a dinner from the ingredients basket in my fridge and put it into my auto-cooker, start my car and pre-load my spoken destination into the auto-drive sat-nav, switched the heated seat on and warmed up the pillow on my auto-recline driving seat-bed....

I can see one device, what we currently call a mobile phone, being the main device. Our inter-communicator. An object that we use to communicate with all others.

Or we simply have voice software with encryption that we use to access all devices.

"Put some water in yourself and make me some tea, kettle."

"I want some bubbles, medium warm and medium full please bath."

"The blue shirt, black trousers, I'd like them ironed please iron."

"Alarm clock, check my meetings and make sure you set yourself so I can be at the first one on time, allow for traffic so you better also check the planned roadworks and traffic forecast sites. Oh yes, I also want some cereal and juice for breakfast, if we are out please order some to be delivered to fridge by tomorrow morning."

Is that a reasonable future vision? Can that happen? What do you see?