Will Smartphones eventually replace Personal Computers?
By Alexis • Oct 31st, 2008 • Category: UncategorizedNowadays smartphones are really getting smart enough to perform a large number of computing tasks. Smartphones like the Apple iPhone 3G, T-Mobile G1, Blackberry Bold, HTC Touch, HP Data/ Voice messenger, E-Ten phones and many more, are capable of high speed internet surfing and executing web based tasks. With such a scenario, analysts are speculating that relatively soon consumers will prefer smartphones over their personal computers.
This is naturally because smartphones are far more portable when it comes to internet usage. The mobile world is just offering more sophisticated phones day by day, which promise to fulfill the needs of the next generation of computing enthusiasts. According to a survey, the amount of mobile internet connections will incredibly grow up to 5.8 billion till 2013. Practically every smartphone released today, like the HTC Touch Pro Raphael, for example, offer a whole host of features that rival small laptops. Mobile manufacturers and wireless carriers are continually upgrading their offerings, which results in the evolution of super phones that support instant messaging, social networking, newsreaders, office applications and much more.
According to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, “You know, one of our entrants into that category, if you will, is the iPhone. For browsing the Internet and doing e-mail and all the other things that a netbook lets you do. And being connected via the cellular network wherever you are, an iPhone is a pretty good solution for that, and it fits in your pocket.”
Greg Sterling, founding principal of Sterling Market Intelligence said, “The usage that iPhones have already had clearly validates the idea that smartphones will expand into PC territory. Opera confirmed to me over the phone that in places like India they’re seeing more usage from their mobile browsers than on the desktop.”
Tags for this article: mobile, laptop, netbook
