SMS Weblogs / Textually / 2005 / 01 / 26

A Media Center in Your Pocket

A well written article in Business Week on the evolution of cell phones.

[...] As new and improved capabilities are added to cell phones, they'll become competitive threats to a host of products, from MP3 players to laptop computers.

And as the cell phone takes on a more central role, the consumer-electronics and PC markets could find that demand for their stand-alone products slackens.

[...] As cell phones improve over the next two years, they'll also start playing a major role in the home. Soon, they'll act as a remote-control devices, orchestrating the use of other home electronics, believes Andrew Cole, a vice-president at business consultancy AT Kearney. Consumers might one day use their cell phones to download a movie over their wireless connection and show it on their TV sets. At work they might use cell phones to remotely program their home set-top boxes to record, say, an episode of The Apprentice.

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