My daughter's got a smartphone in her hand with roughly the same power as a mainframe circa 1982, and she's running around Beijing and wants an answer as fast as she can.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A smartphone is a mobile computer in your pocket.
In the south of France the phones cut in and out, the electricity isn't particularly reliable. I think many people would get very irritated with that life.
I want the entire smartphone, the entire Internet, on my wrist.
The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.
In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.
The fastest way to get around the southern Chinese city of Foshan is on the back of a motorcycle-for-hire.
The best mobile phone had the best mathematician. They know how to fit a huge amount of data into a small amount of space. How to do things efficiently, how to do them cleverly.
Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.
The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.
Smartphones are so fabulous in so many ways that it seems daft to be nostalgic about the days when an image did not go round the world in a nanosecond.