Several years ago, perhaps even longer, we were in attendance at a telemedicine-oriented meeting, and many colleagues were eagerly walking about using both their cell phone—some type of flip phone like a Star Trek communicator such as the Motorola StarTac—and a Palm Pilot personal digital assistant. We posited a question to vendors in attendance about why these two devices were not in fact integrated, making it easier to carry and manage one device instead of two. The response was, well, one of perplexing dumfoundedness and a flat-out "that's not possible at this time." Well, nearly IB years later, the smartphone is the fastest growing mobile device, and in fact there have been more mobile phones manufactured and sold in the past 12-18 months than all televisions ever made and sold in human history! Clearly the integration of a telecommunication device and computing device into one, user-friendly, system has been a tremendous beneficial step in changing the way we work and play
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