Smart phone as a computer replacement
Can smart phones like the iPhone and the Google phone replace the laptop? The Wall Street Journal has an article, Time to Leave the Laptop Behind, that says:
These souped-up cousins of ordinary cellphones, with email and other Internet functions, have become much more powerful in the past year. So powerful, in fact, that they can handle nearly every computing chore that many business travelers need to do, from checking warehouse inventory levels to watching movies on airplanes. Best of all, users can do those tasks with a pocket-size gadget that weighs a few ounces, instead of a five-pound hunk of plastic that goes into a shoulder bag.
The result: Many travelers are now using smart phones the way they once used laptops — and laptops the way they once used desktop computers. Mobile workers rely on their laptops to create PowerPoint presentations and do other heavy-duty computing. But then they leave the laptops in their offices, homes or hotel rooms and take their smart phones out into the world — to client meetings, say, or factory visits.
In some cases, road warriors are going even further, ditching their laptops entirely and doing all their mobile work from smart phones. And many travelers say they’d be willing to take the same step as technology improves — which it’s been doing by leaps and bounds lately.
I can see the advantage for those who are on the road a lot and have better eyes and more nimble fingers than I do but my personal choice for mobility is the netbook. Of course, if wi-fi becomes more widespread and the service gets cheaper, who knows?
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