Comments on: Smartphones will soon turn computing on its head

The combination of a thirst for the Internet and a mobile society has the smartphone industry positioned to define the next generation of computing.

[jack1260]

Few Computer users know...

Bery few computer users could ever imagine that a cell phone would plug into your TV, Stero, e t c

Most PC users will be glad to see the web bullies get it in the neck, when all the precious software people have been fighting over gets reduced to PROM and shrunk into a cell top.

It couldn't have happened to a more trusting bunch, don't you know. Too bad!

[regulator1956]

Computing? It's the writer who's on his head

Riddle me this: How many smartphone owners do NOT have a desktop or laptop computer?

The Answer: None

I've read too many moronic articles about how the smartphone is the end all of death and taxes. Will a small device end the use of desktops and laptops? Not with this version of smartphones or the next. Unless there's a radical change of input and display concepts, the smartphone will never displace current desktops/laptops form factors.

[Tom Krazit]

You're the only one talking displacement

I said, "The PC isn't going anywhere, but it's increasingly competing for attention with the smartphone."

Do you still own a radio? You've probably got a PC, a TV, a telephone, a cell phone, a CD player, a DVD player, and so on, but I bet you have a small radio somewhere in your home.

That's what we're talking about here, not displacement. You still own a radio, DVD player, and a PC, but they are getting less and less interesting. They are established products and industries, and they're not going to change all that much.

But your mobile phone is going to change a lot over the next ten years.

[bob1960]

ignorance ignorance ignorance

"Riddle me this: How many smartphone owners do NOT have a desktop or laptop computer?

The Answer: None"

WRONG! The Answer is suprisingly a lot. Maybe not in the US, but in Europe and Asia cell phone ownership is much more prominent than PC ownership. And because of that, their phones are not just basic units.

How many Internet Cafe's are running in the US? Mostly in libraries, I'd say. But they are a big deal in other countries. PC ownership in every home with Internet access is just now coming of age across the globe. It is not all that difficult to understand.... Technology levels are skipped. When the economies of countries grow, they make the best use of the current technologies. They do not go back and buy the old tech they couldn't afford or get before. We saw it in Japan after WWII in the Steel industry. US Steel factories were outdated, but it was very difficult to justify spending the dollars to replace or upgrade them. Japan rebuilt after the war, because they had no choice, and build modern plants. This gave them a big leg up against US Steel companies, and basically put them out of business. And there are other examples....

One of the reasons that the iPhone is such a big hit is that it was released first in the US. Smart phone users in Europe and Asia include the young, non-business demographic. RIM and Windows targeted the business market in the US, whereas the iPhone's cool factor markets to individuals better. This could be seen as a Tech jump too. And this is what Symbian's CEO is refering to when he makes reference to the different markets, and the changes to make them similar in the near future.

Go play out of your sandbox once in a while before you start bad mouthing a world you don't understand. Your view is so myopic it is a wonder you don't bump into walls...

[t8]

Smart ideas for smart phones

The future will be smart.

Everything manufactured could be smart and connect.

Phones will be the device, but services and manufactured items will also be smart.

We will have smart stores, smart toys, smart packaging, smart shelves, all paid for by smart cards and smart phones.

Imagine the surface of packaging displaying a web animated graphic wirelessly by the manufacturer, oOr pointing your phone at the product and it loading into your phone for payment.

[Carion]

Only 2 problems....

Small keys and small screen..
Human beings will not shrink because their phone is small.

[johnalphonse-22167694933540745]

soon no problems

With voice-to-text, and speech recognition advances, the keyboard is on its way out anyhow, at least for small, portable devices. Then comes built-in projection, which makes screen size moot. The laptop may be usurped by the "palmtop" by 2010.

[Mendz]

Intel and Nokia's Getting it Right

We can pack a lot of big things in small packages already. Let's keep it that way. Keep them compact, light and even wearable. For everything big, just let me hook up to them easily. But keep my computer as small as it can be.

As a wristwatch or wallet perhaps? Well, those are the two things we can always bear to carry with us at all times everyday.

Imagine a rolled up OLED I can un-scroll at times when I want a bigger screen. The touch screen pen or my sign pen that double as my rolled up OLED perhaps?

Imagine hooking up my "wristwatch" to any (HD) LCD screen or projector to show off my media collection.

Imagine using my "wallet" to pay for my purchases, send a text/e-mail message and make calls.

Imagine... Nokia Morph-ish? Yeah...

[WJeansonne]

Microsoft has led the way to Smartphones--not Apple!

Microsoft Windows based smartphones have been out for years now, with Apple just starting out. How can you say Apple leads the way. What a joke.

[SkippyThorson]

Yea-No.

Because the iPhone wasn't in the works since 2002 or anything...

Nice - very educated.

[t8]

Their market share is bigger

Apple phones outsell MS ones.

[technewsjunkie]

That LG "Touch" looks just like the iPhone!

What a blatant rip-off.

[Amitabhkumar]

Does the Smartphone Summit at CTIA 2008 signal in good times for Mobile WiM

If there was one clear signal which the Smartphone Summit at CTIA 2008 ( Las Vegas) gave, it was that the Smartphones are set to emerge as virtually the sole set of devices which will in the near future be used ubitiquously. One can not agree more that the signals which the market is giving indeed point to this becoming true in the not too distant future. The sale of more than 125 million smartphones, continuous increase in the capabilities of processor chips and the ability to be connected on the move no doubt signal this very fact.

There is no doubt true that Smartphone computing will overtake other larger form factor devices. Equally important is to understand how this will happen? The key lies in what Nigel Clifford, CEO of Symbian said ?This is not just about multiple devices, it's about knocking aside some other forms of communication." In all likelihood, mobile WiMAX will play an equally important role in connecting these devices and keep them meshed in with the global internet. In effect, what we are saying is that the global internet will assume wireless and mobile dimensions. With the use of IPv6, the mobile devices will be individually addressable and will serve as mobile servers or computing hubs.
http://www.wimax-home.com

[asperger514]

more connected the better

i'd really like to see a cell/internet appliance with an rfid scanner, so my phone could monitor it's immediate proximity, and advise/remind me of courses of action.

i.e. "you need toothpaste, and your brand is on sale on the counter to your left."