Writer John R. Quain of Is It Time to Ditch the Laptop for a Smartphone?, took the challenge and tried to go a week without his laptop; thinking if smartphones can do most of the tasks a laptop does why need both?
He started off with a Palm Pre, moved to an iPhone then ended with a HTC G1. As Quain went on he needed a more accommodating phone functions like the keys, screens and connections. The phones he tried proved to be more useful as he went down his list. Yet they all provided a great range of applications for banking, navigation, pricing, Microsoft Word and a sky map showing and describing the stars.
"Certainly, if all you need to do is send e-mail and occasionally surf the Web, the latest crop of souped-up cell phones can get you pretty far," Quain said. Quain went through three smartphones in four days, going back to his laptop because writing his article was to difficult.
This was a clever beat because many people may think they can go without their laptop and just use their smartphone. Quain explains the top smartphones and how useful they really can be if that's what someone needs. It was a very informative beat as well as humorous which made for a good read.
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