Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Symbian forecasts the death of the PC

Symbian company's chief executive, Nigel Clifford suggested that the popularity of smart phones in the developed world and the "leapfrog economies" phenomenon in developing countries--in which expensive wired infrastructures are bypassed in favor of wireless--would create a situation where there was a "smart phone in every pocket."

Symbian's head of propositions, John Forsyth, later argued that "in five years' time you'll wonder why you need a PC at all." also "phones are beginning to eat into the space" that laptops were designed for."It will be a great relief to be liberated from the laptop," he added, citing poor laptop battery performance as a key reason.

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