Smart Phone an Appliance or a Computer?

Posted May 6th, 2009 by Ross and filed in wireless industry

Here is a thought provoking article about the way people see smart phones. When you shop for a computer, you tend to look at the best value and at the ones that will do the things you need fairly well. Like its ability to be a general purpose device. In the past, people have tried to compare smart phones to computers. But according to this finding, smart phones (like the Blackberry and the enV) are more like appliances. People buy them according to the job they do the best. The reason I chose the enV is the flip open full QWERTY keyboard. The reason I chose this is because I find text messaging to be painful on the standard phone keyboard and I wanted something slimmer than I could get in a Blackberry. People like Blackberrys for specific reasons and people like iPhone for specific reasons. Read about them at the article below.

Smartphones as appliances