The end of the brick era
Just read this Techcrunch post about the Android/Google/HTC/T-Mobile phone and loved the last paragraph:
But remember, in the end this is not really about Android versus the iPhone. It’s about Web phones versus the brick in your pocket. Simply matching the iPhone on many of these features—especially Web browsing and email—is going to be enough to help redefine the mobile market. The table stakes have just been raised. From now on, phones need to be nearly as capable as computers. All others need not apply.
I welcome our new cool future phones 
September 24th, 2008 at 7:47 am
My phone has java!, and can play midis!, it’s so cool, and i think that also has something called gprs or smt like that, but i’ve never used so never mind.
September 24th, 2008 at 10:52 am
I think it’s hard to impossible to find the right screen size. Big enough to read comfortably is almost too big to carry. Similar problem with the keyboard… A screen as big as the device and a fold-out keyboard of some kind *may* be just good enough but I’m not really sure about that. In any case, the fantasy numbers about smartphone adoption that some market “research” [i.e. guessing] firms come up with don’t impress me. Wait and see.
I do use Opera Mini on my largish Siemens SK65 phone… in emergencies only, pretty much.
September 24th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Well, right now I carry everywhere both my Nokia N70 and my iPod Touch.
I would be happy with an iPhone if it had a really loooong battery life, right now I prefer to have a phone and something else to listen to music, read stuff, watch videos, … because I can do it without being concerned about running out of battery and thus being left with no phone.
At least for me, the iPod Touch/iPhone screen is good enough to read comfortably or type commands or watch video, but still lightweight enough to carry it everywhere. I am just waiting for longer battery life here
September 24th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
It makes no sense to try to have a citycar behaving as a truck. You have no chance, a citycar can’t load the same quantity of goods, whatever you do.
You can put a cellphone into a computer and the computer’s form factor rules.
If you put a computer in a cellphone, the computer’s form factor rules again.
Only more advanced voice recognition would substitute the keyboard.
Actually only video projection or video glasses like technologies can substitute cellphone’s little displays, not lcd nor led nor plasma can do the job.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
I don’t think anyone is talking about using a phone as a desktop computer
I use my iPod Touch to read stuff or watch a movie in the bus, to listen to music in the street, to hook into random wireless and check my mail while I am traveling, … none of these tasks are really suited for a full-fledged computer.
Anyone who thinks the iPhone is not well-suited for the above tasks either hasn’t ever used one or has special needs that all people I know don’t have.