Can you imagine, from your home phone, being able to:

• Share your contact information with your home phone and mobile phone?
• Videoconference?
• View who is at the front door through your IP camera?
• Check weather, directions, and traffic? Or just sports scores, other news stories?
• Control your home automation?
• Have your TV flash who is calling? As well as incoming SMS messages? E-mail notifications?

The answer is clearly Android… just waiting for manufacturers to come up with a landline Android solution.
Some manufacturers have like iDect by Binatone but need to wait until there are phones which can support the latest

Like my other goals, will be consolidating this goal with Create a way to evaluate and compare different things

Update: Archos has announced the Archos 3s smart home phone. I'm going to guess Android 2.2, which is a bit of a pity.

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