Instead of phones getting bigger and PCs getting smaller, as Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates says, phones will get smaller, and mobile PCs -- laptops and tablets -- will get bigger. And Microsoft's "Ultra Mobile PC" is DEAD IN ITS CRIB.
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Maybe the only way there will be true convergence between laptops and mobile phones is with a holographic large screen and keyboard projected from a pocket device. Obviously that's far off.
Yeah, that would be nice. But it would still be a pocket-size device -- not an Apple Newton-size device.
Mike
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