Monday, February 27, 2012

Blackberry singing in the dead of night

Smartphones as they are called are pretty nifty. I prefer to call them pocket computers as making phone calls is only one of the things they can do.  A comic had a joke that ten years ago he had a joke about a cellphone, and MP3 player and a digital camera, but now he has to cover all that in one joke. My prediction is that for many users, the docking station will mean that a smartphone can be hooked up to a large monitor and a full keyboard and pretty much be their computer and tv as well.

For me, this is what my device has replaced, or could replace:

Friends (ok a wee bit of a joke, lol. But on the truthier side, you can check wikipedia to see who was in "from here to eternity, rather than having to phone someone).

A watch
An alarm clock.
A calculator
A stand-alone phone
A radio, if you want to pay extra.
Some TV shows, again you pay extra, but it does have a satellite receiver 
An MP3 player. Hook up some speakers and it is a home stereo as well.
A camera - turns out it even has zoom!
A GPS
A contact list

 ..but I wrote this on a netbook as I do not have a tablet.....lol...

TWF






1 comment:

Thomas Speaks said...

I have a tablet now, a playbook.