Comments on: Smartphones do too much: convergence is giving way to divergence

By: William

William — Wed, 22 May 2013 00:37:35 +0000

I think you’d be very interested in this device, then. It’s called the Casetop, and it allows any smartphone to become a small laptop with an 11) 720 or 1080p screen, high quality full sized keyboard, and a 30+ hour battery! It is on Kickstart and has only 10.5 days to go.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lividesign/casetop-every-phone-becomes-a-laptop

If you can, help spread the word!

By: Altrino

Altrino — Wed, 08 May 2013 08:51:49 +0000

I am impressed by the quality of iWatch. There are a lot of good resources here.

By: drkeshav

drkeshav — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:12:55 +0000

Nice article. Sometimes I feel that the companies are taking us for a ride by offering multiple functions in one single device. I am professional and I use devices that perform one function very efficiently. I agree that everyone can not spend money to buy stand alone devices, still the IT companies should be more careful while offering multiple functions. My surveys have shown that most of the young people in India do not use many functions. Their main usage is for making calls, messages or visiting social network sites. The need is to educate users to decrease use of non essential functions and save time and energy for enjoying life in a more productive and better ways. Serious thinking is needed. Thans for the article. Prof. Keshav Sharma from India

By: John

John — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 06:44:11 +0000

Totally agree with this article. Love my smartphone, but my old flip phone, without the need to log on and load the phone app, would still be the best option in a situation where someone needs it to primarily make constant calls.

By: FrankG

FrankG — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:41:56 +0000

This is a natural progression of many innovations. Look at the calculator for example. It became a complex engineering tool over time but the average user merely wanted simple arithmetic. This will happen to smartphones. Yes, they will do things like healthcare, remote controllers, etc, but simplicity in dedicated (and connected) devices will win out in the long run.

By: enricogiammarco

enricogiammarco — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:32:59 +0000

Too much functions, too much useless usage…

By: Nicholas Paredes

Nicholas Paredes — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:26:46 +0000

I used to argue for something like a personal area network centered on the phone. In 2001, it looked to me like something of a collaborative OS needed to evolve allowing chips to build processing power through collaboration. Perhaps, it is more like a personal area cloud.

Being able to open an AI Writer file on my phone, or tablet, or Mac is helpful even though it is non optimal. One of the big problems that Android demonstrates best, is that people want all of their devices to do everything. If Samsung’s ads don’t attest to this nothing does.

It is the connection that is important, but the interface isn’t far behind. In fact I be
I’ve we are soon in for a change in mobile interface design. The line between web, app, and OS is hopelessly blurring. Twitter is a great example of a product, that is an app service and web service at the same time. I wish that some of our notification services were as robust.

My Sonos already streams music services, but when it was forgetting where my library was it became a $1000 brick. It is exactly the best example why software services are the glue, and why hardware will have such a hard time keeping up. Sonos fixed the service through an update.

Don’t make me think!

By: Jass

Jass — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:06:31 +0000

Very true, agree with this post. Many of times, smartphones end up wasting our time rather than saving it.