Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:39:14 -0600 Message-ID: <4F4D9DDB.2020403@SPAM.comp-arch.net> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:39:07 -0800 From: "Andy (Super) Glew" Reply-To: andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net Organization: comp-arch.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Bandwidth for smart phones References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 52 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-kTREo5UaxxjD3fIA24plVIzA+KYDwhQ75Tck79z38X44a8r2gsOEldCOe87DYRHCLQa6QlO2F6dfpUU!d+EADE6ANF8Ivg95yZ8O0gWwpll1ayoAKS98GRr4cPPEe9mp2UDpueGL/weL5a4= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3489 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.arch:6159 On 2/26/2012 12:23 AM, Robert Wessel wrote: > A few days ago (February 20th), Nielsen reported that 48% of U.S. > adults had smartphones. > > http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/survey-new-u-s-smartphone-growth-by-age-and-income/ > > They're at the higher end of the estimates, with the lower end being > around 40%. > > But either way, there is only modest numerical growth left in the U.S. > smartphone market. (0) Woe is me! I suffer from being a too early adopter. I had the very first smartphone, and then swore I would never buy an HTC phone after the display cracked, and bought the cheapest unlocked phomne I could find. Now I am waiting for my AT&T Wireless contract to expire before gettying a new smartphone. From being a too early adopter, to lagging! Plus, I am looking forward to a MIPS based phone. It's good to eat one's own dogfood. In a few years, perhaps one that I have contributed to. (1) But anyway - I am not so sure. At one time we dreamed about everyone having a PC. Now it is not uncommon for people to have more than one. I think smartphones might go the same way. Particularly as more and more data lives in the cloud, and not on the phone itself. Here's what I want: a) an ultra tiny device, about the size of those really small pocket address books. I think I saw one that was 2"x1.5" recently Or perhaps one of the smaller Moleskines - I have one here, 2.5" x 4". What I want it for: jotting quick notes. (Yes, jotting - I still prefer a pen for this.) Shopping lists. Diet. Exercise. Why I want it to be a "phone": of course I want everything I write to be saved at the earliest opportunity to the cloud. And/or accessible. Power/battery would be the biggest constraint in this form factor. That might lead to it not actually doing voice, and certainly not video. But connectivity is highly desirable. b) conventional phone sized things c) bigger - I like the 5" tablets like the Dell streak (RIP) What I am saying is that once the basic market is saturated, then diversification and specialization happens.