Just look at the market and you will see how major manufacturers are almost simultaneously rushing to launch new products, such as Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, LG and even some Chinese vendors who are releasing their latest smart phones. Of course, BlackBerry and iPhone are always renewing their sophisticated series. Cellular operators are also adding more facilities and services for customers, for example many kinds of information that can be received through SMS, or access to Internet sites, like Facebook.
Many operators are making the available smart phones smarter as an SIM card can be inserted in a digital gadget or a hybrid gadget, a combination of mobile phone and PDA, to optimize its capacity and capability. With such hybrid gadgets we can do more and such smart phones seem to have a brain that can store almost anything and see everything through its digital lens and hear everything through its microphone, and through its touchscreen it seems to feel our fingers.
Indeed, smart phones are made to make life more convenient as they allow us to better organize and manage our activities, check emails and surf the virtual world. Plus the size is no bigger than the palm of an adult’s hand. Smart phones and other types of mobile phones will undergo constant innovation today and in the future and soon will become a widespread global trend. The trend is already starting. Indeed it is a changing world! (Burhan Abe)
The Jakarta Post, July 28, 2009
