On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:24 PM, tjpa <[email protected]> wrote: > What has captured my interest is the elevation of relatively dumb phones > that were just used for yacking into phones that are an active device that > processes information and assists us in many different ways throughout our > day. This is a revolution.
I do not think that phones were "dumb" prior to cell phones being invented. There was a time when a phone was a phone. It was just a phone just as a lawnmower is a lawnmower. What we have today, cell phones, and especially the so-called smart phones, are not actually phones as much as they are mobile computing devices. Indeed, it would not surprise me at all were it to become determined that the more modern cell phones are actually used less for telephone use than they are for other uses. I read just the other day, but cannot recall where, that more text messages are sent by cell phones than actual voice calls, thus putting vocal communications almost at the rear end of how a lot of folks use cell phones today. Both of my co-workers most decidedly use their cell phones more often for texting, playing games or for taking and showing photos, etc., than they do for making or receiving phone calls. I had taken note of that over time at work, asked them about it, and they agreed with me. I do not think that there is nearly as much similarity between cell phones of today and the old dial phones of yesteryear as there was between those old black desk phones of yore and the early mobile phones of the 1960s. Today's most modern "smart phones" are more akin to being a computer with a multitude of uses that also happens to have a phone built into it. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
