DISQUS

HereAndNow · 7 months ago

In the near future, I can imagine virtually all mobile devices (MIDs,netbooks,notebooks,...) including typical smartphone electronics (3G, GPS, accelerometer, digital compass, etc.), for the simple reason that there are a lot of great applications that can be built to leverage it. The ability to make phone calls/send SMS is likely to become important, as well.

A smartphone OS, like Android, would certainly be able to make use of the additional hardware, but current desktop OSes not so much. Thus, it probably makes sense to also add this functionality to desktop versions of Linux.
Staska · 7 months ago

The key issue here is battery life. And session based (laptops, netbooks)
with always-on (mobile and smart phones) devices.

There's is a world of difference between 3-8 hrs of battery life on a
laptop and 24-100 hrs. on a phone. Of course, the same is the difference in
capabilities. Whoever bridges the gap will rule the next gen of devices.