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Phone As Your Next Computer?

Posted by michael on from the ubiquity dept.

Octagon Most writes "Newsweek magazine ponders if a mobile phone will be 'Your Next Computer' and enlists Frog Design to mock-up an 'Integrated Fusion Device'. With mobile phones selling at a rate of 650 million per year and climbing, there are already three times as many phones in use as personal computers. PalmOne's Jeff Hawkins predicts that devices like the Treo will become the new centers of our digital lives as millions of people own phones but not computers."

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  1. I am shocked by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Someone at Palm predicting their device will become the center of our lives.

  2. /. effect by millahtime · · Score: 3, Funny

    Imagine the /. effect from that many devices

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    Evolution or ID?
  3. This till be HUGE!!! by funkdid · · Score: 3, Funny
    Once people can get broadband porn on their cellphones, then maybe!

    My cellphone offers the absolute slowest access to e-mail imagineable. I've never tried to pull up a website on it, it can only hold a few lines of text. I have seen some Clie` models that could possibly replace a person's need for a laptop but a PC in the home, I think not.

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  4. Fusion Device? by Bazzargh · · Score: 4, Funny

    Integrated Fusion Device? Well, I guess they'll need it to power all that crap.

  5. IBM chairman quotes, 1949 by JCOTTON · · Score: 4, Funny

    The chairman of IBM, in 1949, predicted that the "world could use maybe five computers".
    I have five cell phones.

  6. Re:Grid technology by Mz6 · · Score: 5, Funny
    I would have expected:

    MR. PHONE: Yes! It will be 87 degrees and a little windy! By the way, not satisfied with your lover's size? Ask me how we can increase it by up to 3 inches! All herbal!

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    Hmmm.