Mobile Tech Under Obama

We've just elected a new president. Barack Obama starts a four-year term Jan. 20. There's no way to know how America and the world will change during this time. But we can see how mobile technology will change.

Think of what has happened in mobile technology during the last administration. When George W. Bush was re-elected four years ago, the world had never seen the iPhone, the netbook, 3G, Blu-ray, the Amazon Kindle or Twitter. Back then, Facebook was for college students, Treo was the best smart phone (and couldn't run on Windows Mobile).

Of course, the president has little to do with all this innovation other than as perhaps the most famous user of the "BarackBerry" (pictured). Still, it's a meaningful way to mark time and take stock of how our culture is being changed by the most personal of personal technologies. Here's what you can look forward to during OBAMA'S FIRST TERM.