Checking out IXI's Personal Mobile Gateway

Rather than offering a combination cellphone/PDA/camera that does tries to do everything in one device, a company called IXI is pushing their idea that people should instead carry a whole bunch of gadgets that use Bluetooth to connect together in a little network via a Personal Mobile Gateway, or PMG.

IXI is hoping that the technology starts to show up in all sorts of mobile gadgets, and InfoSync has a review of three of the first products in IXI's line-up: the
neoFone (pictured at right), a cellphone with a built-in mini-router that also serves as the network's connection to the Internet, and the first two PMG Companion gadgets: the neoChat NC-10 (pictured at left), which does email and instant messaging, and the neoSnap NS-10, a wireless digital camera which can automatically beam photos to a moblog.
We're not saying that Personal Mobile Gateway is such a bad idea, since we think people should have the option of carrying as many or as few gadgets as they want (it's so lame to think that just because you want an all-in-one supersmartphone that everyone else should want one, too), but unless a few of the big boys like Nokia, Motorola, or Samsung get on board, this isn't going to catch on.