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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

New Invention Needed- Smartphone dock

I'm not very entrepreneurial and I don't have the time or money or resources to do this. If you do and develop one, I just might buy one from you.

Following-up on the last post about smartphones- If I buy a smartphone that is as powerful as my netbook I'd sell my netbook and buy one of these. What is it?

Someone needs to develop a plastic "case" or "dock" with a full keyboard and screen that you simply dock or put your smartphone inside of it. A touch screen might be too expensive, but if I could just have a netbook (10") case to dock my smartphone inside I'd probably buy a Windows 8 smartphone and sell my netbook. I think the "sweet spot" price-wise on something like this would be under $100, preferably $75, if possible? You might also want to consider a 12", 15" and maybe even an ultra thin ultrabook-like version, depending on the phone's thickness?

Monday, March 12, 2012

Smartphones

I am thinking of getting a smartphone in the next six months. I know, I am not with it, I still have my "dumb phone" that does texting. I just have not wanted to pay the extra $ for the data plan nor the $150 to $200 per phone (with a 2-year contract) that it takes to get a smartphone.

However, as I glanced at what is out there in the market today, I found some very powerful processors behind today's Android and iPhone devices. These things have mobile chips in them that are just as powerful as my little netbook that I use for school (web browsing/ Onenote and I even put SQL Server on it!) The smartphones of today have dual-core 1.5 GHz chips in them, crazy!

Windows 8 will be out soon, although I don't know that I would want Windows on a smartphone. The point is that I heard a company has come out with a remote desktop or virtual desktop type of program for smartphones that basically lets you run anything you would on your netbook or scaled-down PC computer on your smartphone. Interesting, very interesting.

Stay tuned in the coming months for my review of smartphones, wireless carriers, and data plans. I never make any of these purchases without extensive market and personal customer research and comparisons--so I might as well share my findings here. Until next time.