Difference between smart phones and traditional laptops This Monday, I bought a brand new smart phone which composes of a quad-core CPU, 1G memory, a high-definition camera and a bunch of sensors suc

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Difference between smart phones and traditional laptops This Monday, I bought a brand new smart phone which composes of a quad-core CPU, 1G memory, a high-definition camera and a bunch of sensors such as GPS and gyroscope. With this device, I can call my family, browse the Internet, open pdf files and edit documents generated by Microsoft Office. It is amazing that nowadays your smart phone seems comparable to your laptop in hardware, and much more powerful in software capacities. Questions that naturally arise include: 1) Can mobile devices (e.g. smart phone, pad) someday in the near future replace personal computers? 2) What is the fundamental difficulty that hampers the development and deployment of mobile devices? 3) What is the impact on Internet infrastructure and society with the exploring of the number of mobile devices globally? Since I am a student studying computer science, I would like to spend some time on these interesting questions and post my ideas and conclusions in subsequent notebooks. Welcome to discussing with me and corrections.

Aug 20, 2014 1:53 PM

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Difference between smart phones and traditional laptops

This Monday, I bought a brand new smart phone which is composed of a quad-core CPU,
1G memory, a high-definition camera and a bunch of sensors such as GPS and a
gyroscope. With this device, I can call my family, browse the Internet, open pdf
files and edit documents generated by Microsoft Office. It is amazing that
nowadays your smart phone seems comparable to your laptop in hardware, and much
more powerful in software capacities. Questions that naturally arise include:

1) Can mobile devices (e.g. smart phone, pad) someday in the near future replace
personal computers?

2) What is the fundamental difficulty that hampers the development and
deployment of mobile devices?

3) What is the impact on Internet infrastructure and society with the exploration
of the number of mobile devices globally?

Since I am a student studying computer science, I would like to spend some time
answering these interesting questions and posting my ideas and conclusions in subsequent
notebooks. Welcome to discussing these topics with me and correcting my entries.

August 20, 2014

Hi Michelle, Thanks for the comments. I just posted a new notebook which I suspect answers some of your questions :-)

August 21, 2014

Robert seems to have gotten most all of the corrections necessary,but I just wanted to comment (since I am also a computer science major): I personally think that we are headed towards replacing most all electronic devices (like computers, laptops, phones etc) with tablets. Many of the newer smart phones out now are phablets and many of the laptops are becoming tablet/laptop cross overs. For me the question that arises is what will be the next big thing, and that's very exciting to think about. I also think that's one of the main problems Apple and Samsung (the two "leaders" of the industry) are having to face right now. The new phones they keep releases mainly differ in size (and a few extra specs here and there) but it's not anything majorly different than the other phones they have released. Interesting to think about, great entry!

August 20, 2014

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