Remember when buying a new cellphone was as easy as 'I want one that flips' or 'this one has a camera! That's the one I want'. Which continued onwards to justifying a $300 phone purchase to your friends by saying your camera was 'way better' than theirs.
Well fast forward to 2011 and the iPhone has been through a couple of life cycles already; it has 'revolutionized' this, and 'changed' everything that. Essentially smart-phones are the new black. Every telecommunication company, and their mother, is coming out with these phones. Between Apple, RIM, Google and Microsoft providing the software (operating systems) and companies like HTC, Motorola, Apple, Nokia, Samsung, etc. are creating the hardware. It's a full fledged war to the death for market-share; a race for the fastest, coolest, multitasking-est phone of the future that everyone should buy.
In 2010 everything was about fast phones with 1 GHz processors and 500mb of ram capable of playing your favourite youtube videos, sending emails, searching the web, and most apps, at lightning speeds.
Now in 2011 comes duel core processor phones... For people who this information is right over their head a 1 GHz (some 1.2) duel core processor and 1 Gb ram phone (such as the Galaxy S II in the picture above) is the equivalent of some net-books, and some (very slow) laptops. Almost anything you can do on a computer you can now do on phones and in most cases, more conveniently. On top of everything, the display, on almost every high end smartphone coming out beats the 60 inch LCD flat-screen display in your living room. You now basically have the power of a laptop in the palm of your hand, and by the end of the year NVIDIA is said to have phones with a quad-core chip inside.
Phones and tablets (a rant for another time) simply means the inevitable end to all desktop and laptop computers. (eventually of course)
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