It seems like we are going back in time when we here that cell phones are starting to replace labtops, but this is a growing trend. The CIO of Webcor Building in California has already offered his employees the option to trade in their labtops for a cell phone and a desktop, which provides great savings to the company in both price and support fees. Twenty employees have already opted for this option. The cell phone he is giving employees allows them to use Microsoft Excel, Outlook, and Word, provides a thumbnail keyboard, a 1.8 inch color screen, has a 144 megahertz processor, employees can check and send emails, make changes to documents, view PDFs, and pull up drawings (since it is in the Construction business). This is so amazing and allows the employer to stay in better contact with employees because he can call them too.
It seems amazing that labtops might have the chance to be replaced by cell phones. Even though labtops will not be completely replaced they will see competition from cell phones that could lead to new changes in technology. It will be very interesting to see what the future holds.
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Although laptop computer is still a vitual element for today's world, I believe in the future, it will be obsolete and will be replaced by mobile phones. When you think about it, they are really convenient. They can be carried around anywhere.
As for power consumption, recharging flexibilies (e.g. vending machines in Japan can actually allow you to rechange your mobile phone), and connectability, it is up to engineers and designers to make it possible to replace laptops of today.
I don't think tiny is always better. My massive desktop wired to my stereo system may be archaic to some, but functional to me.
Excel on a phone? It will work, but what kind of eyes could see what they are doing?
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