Although it took them three writers to do it, Newsweek takes a look at the smartphone trend, trying to pose the seemingly deep question “Will Phones Replace PCs?” while blissfully ignoring the fact that the only possible answer is, you know, ‘maybe.’ That’s some thought-provocation right there. Still, there’s some good stuff in the article, like a stop-smoking program that sends encouraging messages to Japanese students, and (hypothetical?) examples of two single people hooking up in a bar using Symbian Dater.
Which reminds me, I’ve been meaning to ask if any of you have been hooking up via these social mobile applications like Symbian Dater or Dodgeball. And I don’t just mean ‘hooking up with your friends.’ I mean, ‘hooking your interface meats up to anonymous or recently met humans.’ If you send me something put [MobiHump] or something in the subject so my spam filter doesn’t eat it.