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Do u think smartphones replace your clients’ laptops and netbooks?
Your clients might be wondering if smartphones can really replace their laptops and netbooks. Susan Harkins explains that applications and subscriptions make switching to smartphones a reality for some users.
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Perhaps you’ve seen the commercial where the businessman uses his smartphone to work while riding the bus. It seems too good to be true, but the reality is, smartphones offer much more than you might realize.
If clients are asking whether a smartphone can really replace their laptops and netbooks, the answer is yes, but only for a limited few. Applications are the key to getting the most out of a smartphone. Here are specific examples:
- Using Microsoft’s Mobile Word, your clients can enter text, choose fonts, and even format the text, but not much more.
- Your client can run a PowerPoint presentation on a smartphone. This works great for an audience of one, and sometimes that’s all you need! With the right accessories, your client can run a PowerPoint presentation via a smartphone from across the room.
- Speech recognition technology is also available. That means your client can send email and instant messages from a smartphone, eliminating the need to type individual messages.
- Clients can use the camera to capture, save, and even email text.
- With the right accessories, you can even print documents received via email or scanned (using the camera).
- Clients can book hotels, check flight status, convert currency figures, and check weather at the destination while traveling.
- Clients can read email, update a calendar, and so on while away from the office.
- Some smartphones can even find the nearest gas station using GPS technology.
Accessories and subscription plans can definitely make your smartphone more efficient. (Subscription-based products offer services for a recurring fee.) Due to the smartphone’s automated synchronization, your clients can do all of these things without connecting to the Internet and that’s what makes the devices flexible; clients won’t have to wander around looking for a hot spot to connect. To learn more about what’s available, check out the online application stores: Nokia’s Ovi Store, Windows Mobile Catalog, BlackBerry App World, Android Market, and Apple’s App Store.
Clients aren’t restricted to common productivity tools either. With the right custom applications, a smartphone can process orders, update inventory, and so on. In fact, building custom applications for smartphones could be opportunity knocking at your door; it’s the latest cottage industry. IT consultants could generate a considerable amount of extra income writing custom smartphone applications for clients.
On the downside, processing speed is usually, slow and clients will struggle with the small keypads. Entering text is slow and prone to errors, although clients can purchase portable keyboards and display units. In addition, the cost of a smartphone begins to add up when you start purchasing applications, subscriptions, and portable tag-alongs.
Final analysis
Clients who need Web and email access should do fine with a smartphone, whereas clients who need to run complex business software should stick with a laptop or a netbook. Any client in between will need a case-by-case review and that’s where you can really help.
The following chart compares features of smartphones and netbooks and should prove helpful when making recommendations.
| Smartphone | Netbook | |
| Voicemail | Yes | No |
| Yes | Yes | |
| Instant messaging | Yes | Yes |
| Social networking | Yes | Yes |
| Multitask | No | Yes, but limited by processor |
| View and edit content | Yes, with the right application | Yes |
| Complex business software | No | Yes, but limited by processor |
| Create and edit documents | Limited, with the right application | Yes |
| Web connectivity | Yes | Yes |
| Automated synchronization | Yes | Yes, if 3G equipped |
| Fast download of video and high-resolution files | No | Yes |
| Digital camera | Yes, 2 to 5 megapixels; video capture, up to 30 frames per second; basic on-devise editing | Digital Webcam available in some models. |
| Touch screen | In some models | No |
| Full-size keypad | Via portable add-on | Available on some models |
| Screen | 2″ to 3.5″ | 7″ to 10″ |
| Weight | 4 to 6 ounces | 6 pounds or less |
| Internal DVD drive | No | If not, check for availability of external drive. |
| Battery life | 2 to 8 hours | 3 to 12 hours |
| Integrated wireless | Yes | Yes |
| Processor | 434 MHz, but not all manufacturers publicize this information | 1 GHz to 1.6 GHz |
| RAM | 128 MB, but not all manufacturers publicize this information | 1 GB to 2 GB |
| Hard drive | Internal storage ranges from 16 GB to 32 GB | 64 GB to 160 GB |
| Inspected by airport security | No | Yes |
| Price | $200 to $700; this doesn’t include the monthly service fee. | $250 to $800 |
Do u think smartphones replace your clients’ laptops and netbooks?
Your clients might be wondering if smartphones can really replace their laptops and netbooks. Susan Harkins explains that applications and subscriptions make switching to smartphones a reality for some users.
————————————————————————————-
Perhaps you’ve seen the commercial where the businessman uses his smartphone to work while riding the bus. It seems too good to be true, but the reality is, smartphones offer much more than you might realize.
If clients are asking whether a smartphone can really replace their laptops and netbooks, the answer is yes, but only for a limited few. Applications are the key to getting the most out of a smartphone. Here are specific examples:
- Using Microsoft’s Mobile Word, your clients can enter text, choose fonts, and even format the text, but not much more.
- Your client can run a PowerPoint presentation on a smartphone. This works great for an audience of one, and sometimes that’s all you need! With the right accessories, your client can run a PowerPoint presentation via a smartphone from across the room.
- Speech recognition technology is also available. That means your client can send email and instant messages from a smartphone, eliminating the need to type individual messages.
- Clients can use the camera to capture, save, and even email text.
- With the right accessories, you can even print documents received via email or scanned (using the camera).
- Clients can book hotels, check flight status, convert currency figures, and check weather at the destination while traveling.
- Clients can read email, update a calendar, and so on while away from the office.
- Some smartphones can even find the nearest gas station using GPS technology.
Accessories and subscription plans can definitely make your smartphone more efficient. (Subscription-based products offer services for a recurring fee.) Due to the smartphone’s automated synchronization, your clients can do all of these things without connecting to the Internet and that’s what makes the devices flexible; clients won’t have to wander around looking for a hot spot to connect. To learn more about what’s available, check out the online application stores: Nokia’s Ovi Store, Windows Mobile Catalog, BlackBerry App World, Android Market, and Apple’s App Store.
Clients aren’t restricted to common productivity tools either. With the right custom applications, a smartphone can process orders, update inventory, and so on. In fact, building custom applications for smartphones could be opportunity knocking at your door; it’s the latest cottage industry. IT consultants could generate a considerable amount of extra income writing custom smartphone applications for clients.
On the downside, processing speed is usually, slow and clients will struggle with the small keypads. Entering text is slow and prone to errors, although clients can purchase portable keyboards and display units. In addition, the cost of a smartphone begins to add up when you start purchasing applications, subscriptions, and portable tag-alongs.
Final analysis
Clients who need Web and email access should do fine with a smartphone, whereas clients who need to run complex business software should stick with a laptop or a netbook. Any client in between will need a case-by-case review and that’s where you can really help.
The following chart compares features of smartphones and netbooks and should prove helpful when making recommendations.
| Smartphone | Netbook | |
| Voicemail | Yes | No |
| Yes | Yes | |
| Instant messaging | Yes | Yes |
| Social networking | Yes | Yes |
| Multitask | No | Yes, but limited by processor |
| View and edit content | Yes, with the right application | Yes |
| Complex business software | No | Yes, but limited by processor |
| Create and edit documents | Limited, with the right application | Yes |
| Web connectivity | Yes | Yes |
| Automated synchronization | Yes | Yes, if 3G equipped |
| Fast download of video and high-resolution files | No | Yes |
| Digital camera | Yes, 2 to 5 megapixels; video capture, up to 30 frames per second; basic on-devise editing | Digital Webcam available in some models. |
| Touch screen | In some models | No |
| Full-size keypad | Via portable add-on | Available on some models |
| Screen | 2″ to 3.5″ | 7″ to 10″ |
| Weight | 4 to 6 ounces | 6 pounds or less |
| Internal DVD drive | No | If not, check for availability of external drive. |
| Battery life | 2 to 8 hours | 3 to 12 hours |
| Integrated wireless | Yes | Yes |
| Processor | 434 MHz, but not all manufacturers publicize this information | 1 GHz to 1.6 GHz |
| RAM | 128 MB, but not all manufacturers publicize this information | 1 GB to 2 GB |
| Hard drive | Internal storage ranges from 16 GB to 32 GB | 64 GB to 160 GB |
| Inspected by airport security | No | Yes |
| Price | $200 to $700; this doesn’t include the monthly service fee. | $250 to $800 |
Finally,the truth abt Facebook..!!..
Someone finally has the courage to say it :
I feel that these online sites pressure teens to act popular all the time. Now not only is it important to dress the right way, do the right things (and people), but this act doesn’t end away from school. One is also required to pretend to do cool things online to show off.Facebook isn’t for your friends. Your real friends know what you’re doing already, they can contact you when they want to. Your “fake” friends are the ones on facebook, the ones you never want to call you directly.
Facebook is just an online advertisement of yourself. Look at all the cool things I’m doing. Look at how busy I am. Look at how cool I am. Don’t you wish you could be my real friend?
Your real friends know how fake that is. The “concert” you just went to was just a couple of guys playing in a coffeeshop and you left after 15 minutes so that you could get back to playing World of Warcraft. That “party” you went to was actually a LAN party, or worse, a console party where everyone takes turns playing Halo 3 against each other. You have a very ordinary, boring life.
If your Facebook page was a real ad, you’d be sued for false advertising. Ad was deceiptive, implied he/she was doing a lot of stuff but all this person does is play computer games! I want my time back!
Incredible how many people are doing so many cool things in their lives, I wonder how they even have time to eat or sleep when I see their facebook page. How are they able to keep up with their hundreds of friends. Uh, they can’t. Those are just Facebook friends, they could pass each other in the street without recognizing one another.
Where are the Facebook pages with real people with only a few friends? And entries like, “I played World of Warcraft yesterday. Went to sleep, then played computer games when I woke up. Repeat for week”? Come on let’s get real here.
Finally,the truth abt Facebook..!!..
Someone finally has the courage to say it :
I feel that these online sites pressure teens to act popular all the time. Now not only is it important to dress the right way, do the right things (and people), but this act doesn’t end away from school. One is also required to pretend to do cool things online to show off.Facebook isn’t for your friends. Your real friends know what you’re doing already, they can contact you when they want to. Your “fake” friends are the ones on facebook, the ones you never want to call you directly.
Facebook is just an online advertisement of yourself. Look at all the cool things I’m doing. Look at how busy I am. Look at how cool I am. Don’t you wish you could be my real friend?
Your real friends know how fake that is. The “concert” you just went to was just a couple of guys playing in a coffeeshop and you left after 15 minutes so that you could get back to playing World of Warcraft. That “party” you went to was actually a LAN party, or worse, a console party where everyone takes turns playing Halo 3 against each other. You have a very ordinary, boring life.
If your Facebook page was a real ad, you’d be sued for false advertising. Ad was deceiptive, implied he/she was doing a lot of stuff but all this person does is play computer games! I want my time back!
Incredible how many people are doing so many cool things in their lives, I wonder how they even have time to eat or sleep when I see their facebook page. How are they able to keep up with their hundreds of friends. Uh, they can’t. Those are just Facebook friends, they could pass each other in the street without recognizing one another.
Where are the Facebook pages with real people with only a few friends? And entries like, “I played World of Warcraft yesterday. Went to sleep, then played computer games when I woke up. Repeat for week”? Come on let’s get real here.
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