This changes everything (again).
The "smart phone" in your hand has a chip in it that is probably about as powerful as your desktop computer was a half dozen years ago. We don't usually make this comparison because the rest of the smart phone is so unlike a desktop computer that we don't easily see the relationship. But the fact is that the communication devices that we commonly carry around with us are already starting to displace stationary computers in all sorts of places, and in the near future they will become very serious rivals. We're on the verge of an entirely new information processing paradigm, one that finally puts "computing" in the hands of the 'active' individual, an individual who is NOT sitting at a desk, and probably not sitting down at all! Get ready for the era of mobile computing - where we all carry a super-connected supercomputer with us at all times.
...Goren proposes that the phone may even evolve further beyond its physical limitations and become a computational and multimedia hub that interacts and controls other devices in its vicinity. Just as consumers use their iPhone as a central repository for their music, which they then connect to home and car stereos, TI envisions a future where the phone becomes a central repository for content, applications and data... As the smartphone becomes more powerful, Goren said, it feasibly could become the central hub for all of our communications, computing and entertainment needs, while all other devices became peripherals.
