Mobile as computer

Mobile as computer

Mobile phone is now acting as a personal computer.Mobile phones with keyboards have been around for a while, but the phone users of tomorrow are likely to find a host of other desirable computer features built in when their cell phone comes out of the carton.

With phones doing the jobs of computers and cameras, what is left for the handset to take over? Other phones of course.

A few years ago, most people expected the phone of the future to communicate with wireless masts, bases in homes for cordless phones and Wi-Fi routers. But in the end, it has proved cheaper to change the networks, not the handsets.

Ericsson of Sweden is offering corporate customers a "One Phone" service: staff who are often on the move take all their calls on their mobiles, even when they are sitting at their desks.