Progia Implant
Progia Cyberware

You can get a progia implanted as a module for a cyberear, it functions like a regular progia with zero apps, minutes also apply. You should be able to pay minutes in the same way as a regular phone. However, since you can't really bring a microphone close to your mouth with a progia being implanted in your ear, you're only able to speak aloud to talk into the phone (no speaking quietly).

In order to use apps such as messaging or the WSB app, you would have to link the cyber-progia to a visual overlay.

The major problem I can see with this is that you essentially just have an un-dippable phone, however to counter this you can have this be marginally more expensive than a normal progia.

All the app functionality is kept by the normal progias, and the fact that it would be expensive and cyberware wouldn't make it available to just about everyone. Given the progia standardization, this could be the next status symbol that the old progia levels used to be.

While this is what private SIC is for, so it would share functionality there, I still think it would be very themely to have something like this.

Maaaan, standardizing progias was not great imo. I like the apps, but think it would have been better to keep the phone models, spread the apps out across them with the higher models having more options than the lower ones. Similar to before, but with the set of apps we have now.

As for a progia implant, I second Reefer's concern.

It expands the use of current cyberware increasing its value for quality of life uses, encouraging people to get cyberware for convenience making your choices more meaningful, really what you'd want to spend on.

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Also @RatchetEffect's comment, I like the current standardized apps, but reintroducing models would be interesting, perhaps not as a 'status' symbol per se, but allowing hardware of the progia itself to incorporate into the phone.

I.E This model has a built in camera, yeah its pricey. But now you always have a camera, and you have that radio implant, so now it's something you could just never leave home without. Sure it can't print, but slot in that e-mem to save your photos and print them later!

While lower Tier phones still get apps, but have less hardware uses.

This could also be a stupid idea as it overlaps with what is currently available (and perhaps TOO much like modern life phones), but I am also of the personal belief that having multiple ways to do something is interesting, as long as they each of their niche.