
Cell phone Convergence
Remember the days when cell phones were just used for making phone calls? Today, we're fully into cell phone convergence. Your cell phone is now -- or soon will be -- your still camera, video camera, MP3 player, Web browser, email reader and PDA.
These innovations have happened thanks to better
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Bottom line: Your cell phone is going to be the center of personal data convergence, thanks to continued innovations is digital memory storage.