It has been said that within the next few years, smartphones will become the single-most important digital device we own. Discuss the implications of this statement.

It has been said that within the next few years, smartphones will become the single-most important digital device we own. This statement is true.

Explanation:

To discuss about the implication of the statement that the Smartphone will become the single most important digital device we own in next few year and we will also evaluate the role of E- commerce and Web 2 technologies in EBay’s and Amazon’ which has increased its popularity.

1.Smart phone’s future

Looking the history of smart phones, there has been a tremendous progression and it’s still continuing, for example Apple I phone emerged as a cannibalizing platform, made for loading innovative apps, designed with finger-flicking ease-of-use in mind, Black berry has produced its own operating system and many others company, who are in the race of producing different types of features. Now Google has brought its own android open source operating system in its newly launched Nexus one mobile phone and that is not all, its features include transcribe voice to text, noise cancelling dual microphones, and voice guided turn by turn navigation to drivers.

PC Replacement

The primary changes that will occur in next few years will make the smart phone behave like laptops. DoComo started offering the Toshiba T-01A in Japan, a super-fast phone that uses a highly developed Qualcomm chip. Smart phones will finally run complete apps such as Adobe Photoshop with these fast processors – and not just with the limited features offered in the current Photoshop app.

Connectivity

As we all like to stay connected with our friends, family or to do our offices work from home, for that we have to stay connected and smart phones helps us to connect to an internet and from that we can browse, socialize or even can do business without taking too much pain. Most of the smart phone is equipped with Wi – Fi, 3G technology, multimedia like mp3 player, radio, Bluetooth, GPRS and many other things which helps the people to transfer data, via Bluetooth or internet

Storage revolution

The phones which had few mega bytes of storage capacity have gone up to 80GB. It will not be amazing to see if the phones come up with storage capacity like a laptop or PC in near future.

Conclusion

I agree with the fact that in near future smart phones will be the single most important device that we will own, as I am saying this because with the above statement that I have made.