With the rise of media at our fingertips and everything we need in the healthy size of a block of cheese, do we really expect it to be taken any further? The smartphone already offers so much entertainment, we can check our emails whilst in line at the post office, connect with friends whilst pretending to listen to Grandpa’s war stories and listen to music anywhere, yet there’s a few tasks that the tablet devices do better and have yet to be fit into the palm of just one hand.

With the rise of tablet devices, smartphones are soaring, but what would make them even better?

Stretch your imagination and picture a world of complete digital convergence where nothing seems unlikely as long as you’re fully charged and finger free!
A concert with Beyoncé? Not only will you be able to secretly film from your phone, you’ll be able to edit, perfect, brush up and hey presto, you weren’t only at the concert, you were at the concert in the front row, and that wink was meant for you!

The school yard brawl uploaded to YouTube will resemble a scene from The Matrix, nerds will rule, in the world of cyberspace anyhow!

Multi-tasking for the creative mind will be a distinct possibility, creating music whilst on a treadmill absolutely normal, who knows how many gifted musicians this will produce, the market will flood, our choices will widen, and we will have it all.

The only drawback of the smartphone versus tablet debate is the size. The screen can be too small for tired eyes, and could you comfortably watch a movie or read a book cover to cover without emerging with a migraine? Maybe holograms are the answer, a full 3d screen with the doctor’s waiting room as the back drop? Or glasses that plug in much the same way the earphones do. What’s good for sound must be good for sight! Yet some people do use tablets for more than just entertainment.

Whilst comfortably typing on an iPad, fat fingers are not a problem, and let’s face it, with all this technology ding the work for us, fat fingers may be a problem for most!

The smartphone is unrivalled with its host of applications, its many uses from watching film to video phone calls, and short texts are never a problem, but imagine this. A full two thousand word presentation due on the boss’s desk by the morning? Not a problem for the iPad, but could you seriously take the time to fumble around the smartphone, scroll down the pages and you spell check just a few lines at a time? There is, however, a solution, which may be months away not years.

Already we use voice recognition to recite thousands of words at a time; already we can spellcheck speedily as long as we trust our device, but what if? What if we could connect wirelessly from anywhere to our bosses PC, our own PC, the office printer? Now there’s a thought!

Martina Mercer
http://www.martinamercer.com