Von: Paul Golding

This is definitely the future! I recently <a href="http://wirelesswanders.com/BlogRetrieve.aspx?BlogID=1677&PostID=46750" rel="nofollow">wrote about it</a> within the context of mobile phone ownership - that two devices (phone + netbook) will be an important emerging trend. The future is Mobile Internet Devices (MID) or Wireless Interenet Devices (WID), per the Intel hardware vision, especially within this timeframe (2020). Kids today are used to PSP, DS and growing up with their life in the cloud, not bound to the traditional laptop foci, like MS Office and other stodgeware. Operators will adjust their service offerings to multi-device ownership. This has various manifestations in terms of operator services and tariffs. Multi-device architectures will inevitably mean more data in the cloud, such as address book, text history etc. Nice opportunity for MNOs to get into sync and cloud storage services, which I think they should have aggressively pursued some time back.