The Multi-Purpose Mobile Phone

The mobile phone is moving quickly from being simply a tool you utilize to create phone calls. It is steadily entering into the world of personal digital assistants (PDA's) and entertainment devices. It is very easy today to get a movable that is a phone, diary, MP3 player, video player, word processor, and games console. In short its one device however with several functions which you do not would like to shop for separately.

This is often sensible news for the transportable makers who are currently classifying phones as multimedia computers. They are anticipating stealing business from firms who up to now have built single purpose gadgets such as MP3 music players. Interestingly, Apple, who sell the market leading music player, the iPod, have just announced they will manufacture a mobile.

It's additionally sensible news for the mobile operators who sell the phones, as a result of they can sell a additional expensive device with higher profit margins. They will conjointly sell extra services such as music downloads over their mobile network.


The phone which I use may be a Nokia E61 that will all of the above things. It has a keyboard that allows me to sort notes or indeed articles like this one. I will download my MP3 files and play them using it's music player, and additionally download and play video files. There are vast amounts of games which it can play, and i will hook it up to my workplace diary and email system. It weighs 144 grams and is about 12 cm by 7 cm with a depth of 1.5 cm. So it fits easily during a pocket.

With earlier phones that tried these functions lack of memory storage space on the device was a severe limiting issue. However my phone can use a plugin memory card which can give up to 4GB of cupboard space. In theory this would permit me to play several hours of films on my phone!

There are many other models of phones offering all or many of the higher than functions. Some use the quality phone keypad layout therefore are not so sensible at typing massive amounts of text. Others use a stylus primarily based input mechanism for inputting text by writing on the screen.

So expect to see people doing additional and additional with their transportable. In fact makes an attempt are currently being created to use phones as a type of smartcard for paying for things in place of cash or credit cards. Thus it could not be long before the itinerant replaces your wallet!