Verizon Says Smartphones Can Replace PCs

[tolham]

i could see smartphones/tablets replacing laptops, but not PCs.

 

[TunaSoda]

Um, then a smartphone IS a PERSONAL COMPUTER no?

 

[victomofreality]

I can see smart phones killing the tablet and maybe harrassing the laptop pretty bad to the point it won't go out after dark any longer but the desktop? Verizon be crazy yo!

 

[back_by_demand]

Why not? If the processing power and storage is on the cloud what does it matter if the input device is a PC or a smartphone?

Speed of connection and a well stocked docking port and you have all you need.

 

[godnodog]

right..... cause a smartphone with a 1Ghz with almost no Kb of cache can easely replace a 3GHz quadcore with several MB of cache ...

 

[wittermark]

LMAO WHAT AN IDIOT, yea let me know when a smartphone can replace my 6-core @ 4.3ghz, and by the time it does, I'll be rolling on my 24-core.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]Wittermark[/nom]LMAO WHAT AN IDIOT, yea let me know when a smartphone can replace my 6-core @ 4.3ghz, and by the time it does, I'll be rolling on my 24-core.[/citation]
When the speed of your 6 core @ 4.3GHZ is irrelevant due to all the work being done in the cloud? Considering people like IBM have dumped 50% of their R&D budget into Cloud services you can guarantee that the Cloud is something that WILL happen

 

[wittermark]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]When the speed of your 6 core @ 4.3GHZ is irrelevant due to all the work being done in the cloud? Considering people like IBM have dumped 50% of their R&D budget into Cloud services you can guarantee that the Cloud is something that WILL happen[/citation]

hahaha i dont care about cloud, nor will i ever use it. sure it may happen, but i'll still be rolling on my 24-core.

 

[Tmanishere]

Verizon Says Smartphones (1Ghz Droid) Can Replace [botched functionality of the] PCs [from 1990's].

There I fixed it.

 

[joebob2000]

I dunno about you guys, but after getting a smartphone I have only really used my home PC for photo editing and gaming. If I were the kind of person who didn't do those things, I would have no reason for one at all. Web browsing and social networking are all within the reach of smartphones, and let's be honest, that's why all of your parents have a computer to begin with.

 

[krayzie bone]

Wow I can't wait to overclock my phone and I just hope my Noctua NH-d14 will fit in it. Gonna put a cold cathode light in my cell phone as well.


replace a pc yeh right.

 

[Guest]

No it can't "Humphrey Chen".
Try go back to your office and use your smart phone to work for a month and see if you can work at all and see if you will get fired after the month.
Dummest thing I heard.
it's like saying a bus a car is going to replace a bus.
there are still uses for buses and it won't go away.
By the time smart phone is as fast as today's PC, PC will be yet much faster and cheaper.

 

[Sabiancym]

I have my droid overclocked to 1ghz and it still has problems quite often. I'm almost always by a computer and will never whip out my phone to google something. It's always easier on my desktop.

 

[Sabiancym]

[citation][nom]ji 123[/nom]No it can't "Humphrey Chen".Try go back to your office and use your smart phone to work for a month and see if you can work at all and see if you will get fired after the month.Dummest thing I heard.it's like saying a bus a car is going to replace a bus.there are still uses for buses and it won't go away.By the time smart phone is as fast as today's PC, PC will be yet much faster and cheaper.[/citation]

I can overclock my phone.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]Wittermark[/nom]hahaha i dont care about cloud, nor will i ever use it. sure it may happen, but i'll still be rolling on my 24-core.[/citation]
Understood, I will probably join you too, there is a certain satisfaction from knowing you have a beast of a machine. But in the back of my mind it will annoy the hell out of me that there is someone out there with a machine that costs 1/10th of what I paid for mine who connects up to Deep Blue and gets his numbers crunched 10 times faster than me.
Grrrr.

 

[s4fun]

I really want monthly fees just to use my PC, I mean, er.. phone.... Are you insane Verizon!? Stupid as stupid gets.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]s4fun[/nom]I really want monthly fees just to use my PC, I mean, er.. phone.... Are you insane Verizon!? Stupid as stupid gets.[/citation]
Not everyone in the world is forced to use Verizon or AT&T, there are nearly twice as many people in Europe as in the US, we have a much healthier and mature mobile-phone market and cloud computing is coming to a handset near us soon.

Sure the guy at Verizon made these comments but he has to understand that there will come a time when an internet enabled bedside clock will have access to the number-cruching power of the kind of super-computers used to predict weather or for oil exploration.

When Windows 95 came out if someone had described to you Steam, iTunes or shopping on eBay, you would have laughed in their face. This doesn't even require imagination, the tools already exist it just needs implementation.

 

[mrhoshos96]

this will never happen can a smartphone max out crysis can it play games with awsome graphics can it do heavy processor work it can't run windows 7 fail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[irh_1974]

[citation][nom]mrhoshos96[/nom]this will never happen can a smartphone max out crysis can it play games with awsome graphics can it do heavy processor work it can't run windows 7 fail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/citation]
Have you not read any of the articles about the Onlive gaming service? In 5 years a kid with a 10 year old PC will be able to hit the same games as the guy with a $3000 rig, phones dont need fast processors, Verizon is bigging up Cloud as a way to replace your PC.

 

[Guest]

Dah!
They'd seriously have to do something about the screen surface area, and resolution, and find a good portable keyboard, because unless it is equipped with at least a netbook's screensize, and keyb, I can do absolutely nothing with it.
besides, those phones don't run at 1Ghz like a 1Ghz pentium, or they'd fry up!
They're constantly clocked down, and I wouldn't be surprised if there ever was an app that would require more than 1Ghz, that it would use the full 1Ghz of the phone!

The HD playback capability is another thing that's so stupid.
Those phones don't playback 1080p, and if they did, they seriously needed a bigger screen! (or mini HDMI adaptor).