Alberto Bustamante

The future of mobile devices

Posted by Alberto - 27/07/11 at 06:07:52 pm

Nowadays, there are four kinds of mobile devices available at the market: smartphones, tablets, netbooks and laptops. According to number of users, laptops are the most extended. When I started my studies at the University, only a few of classmates had a laptop. But just some years later, it was strange to know someone who did not have one.

Then, smartphones appeared, after Apple lauched the first iPhone. Today, we have a wide variety of smartphones at the market. Now, people using mobile phones with no internet connection are at the same level than people using a walkman.

Netbooks were destinated to be the next mobile devices in our homes. I know a lot of people who bought one as a second computer. Asus, HP, Dell… in a short time lapse, all the main manufacturers included one or several netbooks into their catalogues. Everyone except Apple: they released the iPad. And then, tablets invaded us.

What is the future of these devices? In one word: integration. I am a technology geek, so I like tablets… but I know I do not really need them. And I think that it is enough to carry with my laptop and smartphone when I go out from home. But it would be great to integrate the functionality of laptops, tablets, smartphones and netbooks. And I really like when I read about new devices that have been designed taking this principle into account:

For example, Asus Transformer, a tablet device that can be transformed into a netbook using an external keyboard.

Or Webtop app, by Motorola. Using this system, you can transform your smartphone as a laptop or desktop computer, depending on which accesory you prefer:

If this is the future, I cant wait to see the next generation of mobile devices.

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