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Monday, March 30, 2009
Blurring the picture
Mobile phones increasingly get PC-like features, smartphones are said to save the mobile phone industry, netbooks sell like donuts, it's talks about putting Android in netbooks and navigators, smartphones (as PDAs with mobile communication) are self-reliant and no longer tied to a PC (as was Microsoft pretty flawed dream), increasingly operators offer flat-rate also for mobile phones and not just USB modems, netbooks will be sold subsidized with a mobile sub (laptops are already), etc, etc.
As I've mentioned from time to time, what saves the mobile phone industry is the operators' subsidizing of phones. Without that the industry would collapse, as very few would (think they could) afford a new phone.
Anyway, what I intended to get at was that people will increasingly wonder "Should I get a new wonderous information-centric phone or should I stay with a 'normal' voice-centric phone and buy a netbook instead, using the phone as modem"?
It's also a question whether there's any point buying video-focused media players anymore (they are not selling well already), as a netbook (esp. if running XP) or an information-centric phone function well for playing both music and videos. Phones might be skimpy on storage space and rely completely on Flash memory nowadays, but a netbook with a hard drive and a larger screen than a dedicated media player can certainly serve as a media player / web tablet.
As I've mentioned from time to time, what saves the mobile phone industry is the operators' subsidizing of phones. Without that the industry would collapse, as very few would (think they could) afford a new phone.
Anyway, what I intended to get at was that people will increasingly wonder "Should I get a new wonderous information-centric phone or should I stay with a 'normal' voice-centric phone and buy a netbook instead, using the phone as modem"?
It's also a question whether there's any point buying video-focused media players anymore (they are not selling well already), as a netbook (esp. if running XP) or an information-centric phone function well for playing both music and videos. Phones might be skimpy on storage space and rely completely on Flash memory nowadays, but a netbook with a hard drive and a larger screen than a dedicated media player can certainly serve as a media player / web tablet.
