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Calling a cellphone a mere phone seems a little silly these days. The little pocket wonders now do so much they are really handheld computers. With extras. The process of mashing one or more gadgets together in the same box used to be called convergence, but that approach quietly died as the mobile phone ate up any and every rival device.
Ipod sales are good, and there should be a market for a lightweight, ultraportable mp3 player for quite some time simply because people like to listen to music while they work out. On the other hand, the cost of an iphone is about the same as a regular ipod, albeit one with larger storage capacity. I think it's more accurate to say that phones will cut into the mp3 player market, not "kill" it.
Same thing with the camera. I have put off buying a replacement battery for my digital point and shoot since it's much easier just to bring my phone with me, but for any events where I would make a point to bring a camera, the standalone camera is much better, takes clearly superior pictures and video, and has a lot better flash. If anything, camera phones have increased the number of pictures I take more than they have cut into my camera use.
the phone replacing laptops maybe, but as for the screen im not to sure, im only 19, and i dont want to stare at a 3 inch display all day, i like my 17" and 19" in due time im sure the display hookup will be as big as a headphone jack if not smaller to hook a regular screen to a cellular phone
we made it this far with technology we can only go farther
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