As someone who owns a Nokia N810 owner, an eee PC 901, a Laptop with a 14.1" screen, and a desktop I'd say you're unlikely to see them replaced any time soon. The main problem with phones is physical size. You can only go so small before it becomes difficult for someone to read the screen and/or use the keyboard.
Basically the devices stack up like this; N810 - Great for the odd day away when I'm away and will only have to answer a couple of emails, but the keyboard is too small to do a lot of typing, and its too small to type at any great speed. eee PC - Great for a few days away when I'm going to be doing emails/browsing/documentation/coding because the screen is bigger and the keyboard better, but they're still too small to work of at a reasonable level of productivity. Laptop - Great for interim solutions. day to day activities are achievable, and I spent 3 months using my laptop as my main machine when I was renting a house waiting for the house I was buying to finish being built. Desktop - The ultimate in productivity. It has 2 1650x1080 screens, a Q6600 processor, and 4GB of Ram. The laptop can do everything, but the desktop does everything quickly and allows me to have a lot of information on screen and cross reference it easily. Whilst it's true that you may be able to connect up a better keyboards, mouse, and screen, why would you want to carry all that around when the whole idea is portability? So I can see that although the man on the street may not need anything more than a smart phone in the future I believe that people working in more than one location (which is on the increase with telecommuting) will still need, use, and want laptops. Al. Muthu Ramadoss wrote: > Increasingly getting the feeling the laptop is going to be obsolete > soon, replaced by smart phones. Any idea by the extremely smart folks > here on how soon this might happen? > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 11:14 AM, FMDRA <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > I think I'm not the only one how thinks cell phones are going to be > just-phones in the future. The development of applications will > certainly define the phones that we will use in the next years. The > significant increase in smartphone sells, is a hint to see that things > are changing. I don't think Symbian can keep that first place if it > doesn't do something to attract programmers. > > On Sep 19, 9:48 pm, Steve Oldmeadow <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > On Sep 19, 11:00 pm, FMDRA <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > > I have heard about Symbian. I have used Symbian myself. Can you > > > elaborate a little more on that? > > > > If I understand your argument you are proposing that ease of > > development equals a larger market share but Symbian has the largest > > market share and is arguably the most difficult to develop for. > To my > > mind there are clearly other factors at work. If you ask > someone why > > they bought a Nokia S60 phone they rarely mention the operating > system > > or available applications, if they do they are probably a developer. > > > > > -- > == > take care, > Muthu Ramadoss. > > http://mobeegal.in - mobile search redefined. +91 98403 48914 > > > -- Al Sutton W: www.alsutton.com B: alsutton.wordpress.com T: twitter.com/alsutton --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
