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Buyers Opt for Smartphones in Tough Market
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sfoalex 
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Posted 07 June 2009 - 05:18 AM
From my point of view, virtually 100% of everyone I know is shifting from laptops and basic cell phones to netbooks and smart phones. And sometimes the change is quite dramatic.
I am personally on my 3rd netbook now, and I have finally found one I am very happy with. The netbook concept started with a 7" screen, no real GPU, tiny keyboards, no hard drives and limited SSD drives. But look at the next wave of netbook. They have great Atom processors. They will have ION GPUs from nVidia. They have larger screens of 11.6" and HD resolutions of 13xx by 768 (true 720p) HD. And they full sized keyboards due to the screen being 11.6" inches. I believe it is this up and coming generation of netbook that cements this transition from laptop to netbook.
Likewise smart phones such as the Treo line we a first attempt at marrying the PIM with a cell phone. I think the BlackBerry really created the true market for smart phones. But I give credit to Apple for the App Store and for changing the concept of smart phone into a true platform by allowing add-on software to truly flourish. Now BlackBerry has an app store, Microsoft is coming out with one, and the new Pre has one as well. Our smart phones are now truly a platform. and like all platforms they are evolving at a rapid pace. So much so that even Android is now morphing into a NetBook operating system. I'd personally like to see Palm's WebOS make it to the NetBook OS. I don't care for Apple's iPhone OS at all, except to give it credit for expanding the market in a positive way.
I use my netbook more often then my regular laptop now. It's so much lighter, and oddly, it books a lot faster. It's limited in some ways, but here's where it shines. I can use it anywhere. And with a 9 hour battery, it's truly useful all day long. In other words, it's available to be used. It's easy to carry around. It boots fast. It's battery isn't dead all the time.
Smart phones are becoming that too. They are becoming available. That means there is either software built in or available third-party that allows you to lend more tasks to your cell phone. If I decide I want to buy or sell a stock, right from my BlackBerry, I know I can. That gives me freedom. I know that if I get that email I am expecting, I can answer it via my Blackberry. Stock trades, emails, calendars, tasks and many other tasks can be done via a smart phone.
The trick in my opinion is that these devices are available. By available I mean that there is a real option to use these devices and software to replace a legacy hardware / software platform. It doesn't matter that we have just smart phones. It matters that we have smart phones with available software that truly solves a problem and enables you to leave the computer behind. and likewise for the netbook. It's not enough to simply make small, light and available netbooks. It has to be capable of replacing the laptop. And in my opinion, we're there and it's getting better all the time.
Alex Alexzander
I am personally on my 3rd netbook now, and I have finally found one I am very happy with. The netbook concept started with a 7" screen, no real GPU, tiny keyboards, no hard drives and limited SSD drives. But look at the next wave of netbook. They have great Atom processors. They will have ION GPUs from nVidia. They have larger screens of 11.6" and HD resolutions of 13xx by 768 (true 720p) HD. And they full sized keyboards due to the screen being 11.6" inches. I believe it is this up and coming generation of netbook that cements this transition from laptop to netbook.
Likewise smart phones such as the Treo line we a first attempt at marrying the PIM with a cell phone. I think the BlackBerry really created the true market for smart phones. But I give credit to Apple for the App Store and for changing the concept of smart phone into a true platform by allowing add-on software to truly flourish. Now BlackBerry has an app store, Microsoft is coming out with one, and the new Pre has one as well. Our smart phones are now truly a platform. and like all platforms they are evolving at a rapid pace. So much so that even Android is now morphing into a NetBook operating system. I'd personally like to see Palm's WebOS make it to the NetBook OS. I don't care for Apple's iPhone OS at all, except to give it credit for expanding the market in a positive way.
I use my netbook more often then my regular laptop now. It's so much lighter, and oddly, it books a lot faster. It's limited in some ways, but here's where it shines. I can use it anywhere. And with a 9 hour battery, it's truly useful all day long. In other words, it's available to be used. It's easy to carry around. It boots fast. It's battery isn't dead all the time.
Smart phones are becoming that too. They are becoming available. That means there is either software built in or available third-party that allows you to lend more tasks to your cell phone. If I decide I want to buy or sell a stock, right from my BlackBerry, I know I can. That gives me freedom. I know that if I get that email I am expecting, I can answer it via my Blackberry. Stock trades, emails, calendars, tasks and many other tasks can be done via a smart phone.
The trick in my opinion is that these devices are available. By available I mean that there is a real option to use these devices and software to replace a legacy hardware / software platform. It doesn't matter that we have just smart phones. It matters that we have smart phones with available software that truly solves a problem and enables you to leave the computer behind. and likewise for the netbook. It's not enough to simply make small, light and available netbooks. It has to be capable of replacing the laptop. And in my opinion, we're there and it's getting better all the time.
Alex Alexzander
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