Comments on: Smartphones poised for PC replacement duty [video]

By: A L Freeland

A L Freeland — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:21:17 +0000

No need to be catty. Relax the deathgrip on your PC. It’s just an editorial.

By: Psykomantis00

Psykomantis00 — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:52:52 +0000

You apparently didn’t watch the video at all.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 02:09:54 +0000

Cool – thanks for pointing that out. And nice to see ARM is paying attention to our community here. :)

By: reality

reality — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:29:25 +0000

http://blogs.arm.com/smart-connected-devices/858-galaxy-note-ii-great-innovation-and-the-marmite-of-smartphones/

By: Felipe

Felipe — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:19:43 +0000

Makes a lot of sense Kevin. Connecting the device to a keyboard, mouse and bigger monitor. I can see this coming. We can see that even Microsoft 8 is designed based on the mobile idea. This means both sides are moving forward to the same point. Adding the capabilities that we already with Cloud. Many PC users don’t need have machinery to for daily basis.

By: Tal

Tal — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:17:52 +0000

I think that besides gaming and industrial purposes, 80%+ of what we do at home, at work or on the go is reasonably available by smartphone computing power today.
PC will remain a viable upgrade computing power (as said e.g. gaming) in the next 5-10 years. But besides that I think that the future are desktops (wide screen + keyboard + mouse) as well as tablets and smartphones that will accept my personal device.
By personal device I don’t mean a smartphone though as you can see. Its something smaller. Which gives me cell data/voice, computing power and storage. Plug that into any of the devices from smartphone to tablet to desktop and you are on. With everything that you need.
A ring could be nice. It could be inserted into anything.

Till then, the video above is a great option. The beauty of that future I described above, is that its going to be a standard, and available anywhere. You could see terminals in every shop, cafe or bank. Just longing for your “ring” to be injected in. At my house though gaming is still high priority.

By: jim mortensen

jim mortensen — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 07:07:23 +0000

The notebook and desktop are here to stay? The phone will never replace the PC? I can’t believe anyone still believes this. Within 5 to 10 years notebooks and desktops will be gone and the phone will be unrecognizable. These attitudes remind me of Sci-Fi stories where the character will be on a star ship and someone will be using a keyboard. I’d say something more like the size of a hearing aid with almost perfect voice recognition. Typing on a keyboard will seem as primitive as a chalkboard withing 10 years at most.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:09:59 +0000

True. Our internal developers want to create apps laid out for screen resolutions of 1280h or higher, and our end users find anything higher than 1024h on a 19″ flatscreen “too small to read”.
The users are winning out.

By: ecomron

ecomron — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:53:42 +0000

I don’t think it’s likely they will ever totally replace the PC.

By: ecomron

ecomron — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:52:18 +0000

I think that’s a stretch to say they will totally replace the PC. They are obviously growing and the applications for them are expanding into many niches, but I do agree with qbist, the PC, desk and laptops are here to stay!