On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:21 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Should we not alter the nomenclature by which we refer to these, as > you put it, "app phones?" If most folks actually use these devices > less as one would use a traditional telephone, and more as one uses a > full blown computer, why call them phones? Were laptop computers to > be made available that had cell service capability, and if folks > carried those around using them both as phones and as computers, would > we call them phones? How about an iPad-like device with a phone built > in? Would that be called a phone? Just a simple question. Responding to my own post: Intel and Nokia making a mobile chip for phones, netbooks? "With the right x86 SoC, Nokia could tackle the range of phone-tablet-netbook devices that Dell is currently targeting with efforts like the Mini 5 tablet." http://tinyurl.com/yeamhod ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
