Mobile Devices Galore

摘要

Few, if any, technology products reach a worldwide audience hotter than mobile devices. I'm talking about smartphones, tablets, handhelds, and even notebooks to some extent. When's the last time you bought a desktop computer? As I mentioned in my March 23 Geospatial Solutions column, at the GIS in Action conference I asked a Google presenter if he thought the mobile phone is going to be the primary mobile device people will carry. He said, "No, it's going to be the tablet computer." The competition certainly seems to be between the smartphone and the tablet, or maybe a hybrid version of the two. From a geospatial user perspective, we've been showered these past few months with tablet device offerings.