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.