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here's an interesting
BBC article
read the whole article as I've just posted a few snippets here
Sales of smartphones are expected to overtake those of laptops in the next 12 to 18 months as the mobile phone completes its transition from voice communications device to multimedia computer.
Convergence has been the Holy Grail for mobile phone makers, software and hardware partners, as well as consumers, for more than a decade.
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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," he said.
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Symbian is working on technology called Freeway to give phones the ability to move seamlessly between wireless networks, like wi-fi and cell networks like 3G and 4G.
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Posted: 2008-02-18 12:41:06
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It is indeed an exciting time (well, as exciting as mobiles can be) at the moment. If you wrote down the things you do on a regular basis, the current batch of mobiles pretty much covers it all, Sat Nav, TV, Internet, MP3 player, Camera and payment (in some countires I believe). There isnt much out there it doesn't do, and now can only get more powerful.
Seems like 100 years in the future from the Analogue Ericssons I programmed and first prepayment phones from 10 years ago.
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Posted: 2008-02-18 13:01:29
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