Mobile Technology - Coming of Age?

Mobile technology has been changing the world of personal computing dramatically in the past couple of years. The changes could be as great as the introduction of pc's themselves during the 1980's. Indeed, there are some who think that mobile units, like smartphones, netbooks and hybrids could largely replace the laptops we see every day now. No doubt there will continue to be a demand for large powerful laptops. However, many people, given the opportunity might be just as happy not to carry laptops around with them if they can achieve their computing needs with the smaller units. Increasingly, smartphones, pda's and other small units are measuring up to the challenge. They can be used for social networking, which is major, browsing, email, games, and many other applications. their big disadvantage now is that the keyboards are not big enough for comfortably preparing longish documents, and of course, their screens are small. With the advent of virtual screens and keyboards, this might change.

Technology Review has put together an interesting set of articles and papers on mobile computing that is worth a browse. It can be found at: Technology Review: EFlorida