According to the BBC, sales of smart phones are predicted to overtake those of laptops within the next 18 months, “as the mobile phone completes its transition from voice communications device to multimedia computer”.
And I can’t see any reason why not, as companies like Nokia, Samsung and Motorola have finally began to convince us that the idea of having a multimedia computer in your pocket, is possible.
“Converged devices are always with you and always connected,” said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia chief executive at last week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Nokia predict that they will sell 35 million GPS-enabled phones this year, as personal navigation becomes the latest feature to be assimilated into the mobile phone.
Nigel Clifford, chief executive of Symbian, said: “All of those single use devices – MP3 players, digital camera, GPS – are collapsing onto the phone. We are going past the point where this was a phone with a few other things”.
For the full BBC article, visit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7250465.stm
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