From: Tony Williams 

Adam > wrote:
[...]
> So...5 years from now your smartphone becomes an TCP/IP wireless device
> period & your contract with t-mobile/vodaphone etc will be a
"as much as
> you can eat for UKœ30 per month" variety.
>
> At that point I reckon smartphones will in effect take over coz in 5
> years.....1gb of ram, 30-100 gb persistent storage, chip speeds in the
> ghz range?
>
> You'll probably get a "docking station" much as used to be common wrt
> laptops so you can have your mouse, keyboard, vdu etc all plugged in &
> ready to go.

Pretty much the way I see it turning out too. The biiig problem is still
battery life for the mobile - power consumption goes up linearly with clock
speed (more or less, but it's a good rule of thumb), and we're still
waiting for batteries that are small and cheap enough to cope in a
handheld.

No reason for the docking station to be a physical connection though. Do
the lot over the airwaves.

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Tony

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