Phone As Your Next Computer?

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."

Comments

I am shocked

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Fusion Device?

[Bazzargh]

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

IBM chairman quotes, 1949

[JCOTTON]

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

Re:Grid technology

[Mz6]

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!