Theory of evolution in technology...

Cell phone has come to a point to being the reason that technology is evolving. Strange as it may sound, lets see it through.

The mobile phone started as a plain portable phone device with the ability to send an SMS and maybe (the most advanced ones) do a calculation or wake you up.

Now it has come to a point that the screen, for instance, from its black and white only style, not only did it turn coloured with thousants of coulours but it has a touch ability.

Nokia's first camera addition began to give more potentials to the portable device.
Mp3 player's evolution, together with flash memories prize downfall in proportion to the amount of data they can store, gave the cell phone mp3 player capabilities. This, together with camera and decent video player capabilities, made the cell phone a full featured portable entertainment device.

So, what's next?

It seems that these days technology struggles to make an all-in-one portable device, combining cell phone's portability and ease of access with computer's potentials. Efforts are being made with the aid of nanotechnology in shrinking the pc. The latest and greatest achievement is the "netbook", which is a stripped down version of the laptop which itshelf is a compact version of the PC.

As you can spot, there is a small but notisable "gap" between new generation cell phones (a.k.a smartphones) and the netbook. To my view this "gap" is the next technological achievement. The "all-in-one device" with no compromise on size (portability comes to mind) or specs.

The only drawback so far is battery's lifetime, but not for long..