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iPhones, you even needn't take this much trouble. Your operator will gladly do so for you. This kind of a provision is simply not there in the PCs. The prices of the smartphones is also something that is simple impossible to beat for the PCs. The next generation smartphones with their dual core processors, wide gleaming highly touch sensitive screens and latest that iOS or Android platform can offer, eight mega pixel camera with high definition video recording option and Ewallet facility even now costs so little. Imagine what the prices will be say three years from now? Source : Guardian ">But today, the situation is vastly different with a majority of us carrying a smartphone that can perform for you just about everything that a PC with all its computing and internet might can and even more. Now, the implications of a device that is dimensions wise is not bigger than a soap box and still enables us to – make calls, log on to the internet, send and receive E-mails, do social networking, type texts and work on excel, create data bases, access any number of applications, find our way through the GPS, click photographs, do video recording, double up as our E-wallet through the application of the NFC (near field communications) software, listen and download music, and generally carry out every conceivable activity that we normally expect from only a PC and offer much, much more – is only beginning to surface. Here, it is worthwhile to mention that only are smartphones portable and efficient but cost less as well when compared with the PCs. While nothing can be said with any certainty the statistics that is available for 2010 regarding the number of smartphones sold as well as the number of personal computers sold does ring an alarm bell for the PCs. That too very loudly at that. In the first three months of 2010, the PCs sold more than smartphones with 85 million PCs selling as againt only 55 milllion smartphones. It was around that time that the industry analysts predicted that the smartphones will overtake the PCs by 2012. But the figures for the last quarter of 2010 proved them wrong. Only 94 million PCs got sold while the smartphones notched up 100 million. This gap further widened in the first quarter of 2011 when again 100 milion smartphones got sold. But this time around the number fell further for the PCs with only 80 million units being bought by users. Industry watchers do believe that this trend now cannot be reversed. And herein lies the million dollar question. Is it already the end of the road for the PCs or is there still a wide and untapped market for it. At the risk of sounding pessimistic, the future does look bleak for them. With all possible computing and net related activities being very much possible on the smartphone, the competitive edge seems to have completely gone away from the good old PCs. The immense advantages that the smartphones deliver are far too many. You will have access to all applications including those that give specific and often vital information and data on medical issues. This can prove to be a life saving device in a developing country like Sri Lanka or even in some remote African region. You simply cannot even lose your data along with your contacts, etc even if you lose your handset. There are any number of safeguard measures like going online and blocking access to your number to locating your handset itself. Here again, in most cases, like the iPhones, you even needn't take this much trouble. Your operator will gladly do so for you. This kind of a provision is simply not there in the PCs. The prices of the smartphones is also something that is simple impossible to beat for the PCs. The next generation smartphones with their dual core processors, wide gleaming highly touch sensitive screens and latest that iOS or Android platform can offer, eight mega pixel camera with high definition video recording option and Ewallet facility even now costs so little. Imagine what the prices will be say three years from now? Source : Guardian
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