Why you still need a laptop

I used to have Windows Mobile phone. I pretty much managed my life from it. Plus I could edit word and excel documents, create PDFs, view presentations, work with OneNote, sync to work e-mail server, etc. I couldn't wait any longer for Win Phone OS, so I went iPhone. Despite how much I could do on my Win Mobile phone, the screen was too small and the OS was clunky. My iPhone has a great screen size now. It also has apps to do everything I did on Win Mobile. Many android phones have even better screen size and easier to utilize more of G-Docs. Some have keyboards, others don't. But what annoys me the most is how I still have to rely on my laptop for a lot of my daily computing needs. Sadly, the technology is still too young to fully replace the "desktop."

Cloud storage, services such as Google Docs, apps that combine all social and blogging into one location; it's getting there. However, for you business power users, until Microsoft releases Office 360, and assuming there will be apps to allow full function and usage from a mobile device, then the mobile workforce is not yet ready to give up their laptop or desktop yet.

The argument that tablets are the answer is a wasted one. Unless the tablet has Windows 7 or some greatly altered mobile OS (which means awful battery life), a tablet is pretty much an oversized smart phone without the phone. IBM has a cool hybrid where a Google Honeycomb tablet docks into a laptop, then coverts into a Windows 7 laptop machine. But I want my computing software and power on 1 device.

Coming soon, but not yet. Can't wait to get rid of my laptop, USB mobile adapter + service, smart phone, desktop, and tablet and have 1 device. Ok, 2 devices for now: phone and tablet.


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