Nokia

They aren't kidding around when they are saying the n series phones are multimedia computers rather than smartphones. I'm writing this one inside my bed using my cellphone, and I can almost remember the times when a fully pledged desktop had barely half the computing power this machine had, he even that. This phone is capable of running 3D games, while the first computer I ever used, which was my father's IBM 286 clone running karatega (does anyone even remember the game? I feel so old school).
Once upon a time when being an Apple computer user actually meant something (back when Apple was about the only computer company that targeted average consumer instead of large businesses and thus fundamentally contributed to making a difference in the world) comes to mind whenever I use my n85. Will we be able to see something similar with multimedia-ready phones taking the place of bully desktops? I am probably describing the wet dream of almost every single major phone company ceos out there (and even some computer company ceos).
If the day when phones become the fully pledged multimedia devices finally arrive, it will be somewhat different from what people today imagine it to be. Such devices are very unlikely to be computers for one thing. They are more likely to be data terminal with cameras, censors, gps, and etc that can be linked up in any way the user or the application programmer wants it to be, capable of turning into all posts of devices at the moment's notice. In that light I would say that the buglab's modularized all purpose machine is ouch closer to the cellphone of the future than say, the iphone (the only thing futuristic about the iphone is the multitouch interface, and even that's old news when you think about it).
Think about it. A ubiquitous terminal that can turn into broadcasting station or microbe or water quality testing apparatus at a moment's notice. A digital synthetic biology field lab with full suite of chemical sensors.

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