The Mobile Phone as Computer

In an article done by The Feature, Eric Lin looks at home the hardware development has had a high speed of advancement in the mobile market than it has in the full sized PC market. Not just in speed either, but in size and storage capability too. The rate we are going, mobile devices will become more important that the PCs that we download its information to.

There’s no denying that mobile phones are getting more powerful. Moore’s law has done more for handsets and PDAs than it has for PCs recently. As handsets grow more powerful, and as they converge with other devices or functions, users rely on them more and more, just as they have traditionally relied on PCs to perform many computing needs. Users, as well as carriers and developers are now treating mobile phones more and more as mobile computers — even models that are not smartphones. Handsets have been evolving incrementally to reflect this evolution, now the chips that power them are reflecting this change as well.