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Smartphones are the computers of the future: They're getting very powerful, they can work all day without charging, and they can go everywhere with you.
For many people, a mobile phone will be their first or only computer. But there are also drawbacks like small screens and crappy typing capabilities.
As we plot out how people will use their phones in the future, we'd love to know: What do you like doing BETTER on a smartphone than a desktop or laptop computer?
After you're voted, don't miss our FUTURE OF MOBILE special report.
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BlueStacks, which lets users run Android applications on any x86-based Windows PC, is the latest in a line of attempts to bring the bells and whistles of a mobile operating system to traditional computers.
There’s actually a trend in the market to bring mobile operating systems to traditional desktop computers and notebooks. Apple’s latest operating system, Lion, promises to bring a lot of features from its iPhone operating system to the Mac.
Hewlett-Packard is also bringing WebOS, the mobile operating system for its Pre line of phones and its newest TouchPad tablet, to PCs. The benefit is that mobile applications are so easy to use that tablets and smartphones have replaced traditional computers for a lot of users.
That’s three of the largest mobile operating systems that have either made it, or are on their way, to traditional computers. Research in Motion hasn’t given any kind of indication that it will be bringing any part of its BlackBerry operating system to computers — or the QNX software that its Playbook tablet runs. Windows hasn’t announced whether it will bring any parts of Windows Phone 7 to the next version of Windows — though some leaked screenshots suggest that’s what’s happening in Windows 8.
The software is similar to Parallels Desktop for Mac, which lets Mac users run an instance of the Windows operating system in a window. Both operating systems are basically running simultaneously, so the user doesn’t have to reboot the computer to start a different operating system like some other alternative operating systems require.
In addition to quickly accessing Android applications on a laptop for testing, users could essentially turn a Windows tablet into an Android tablet — though it would probably run less smoothly than a tablet actually built for that purpose. The software handles both touch interfaces and mouse input to interact with the applications.
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Microsoft is officially bringing the Kinect motion-controlled sensor to the PC. The move could help make consumers excited about Windows again.
It's a smart move -- Kinect is the most innovative consumer product Microsoft has created in eons, and hackers were already creating weird and wonderful PC applications that could use it. Instead of fighting them, Microsoft is enabling them.
This spring, the company will release a software development kit (SDK) for hobbyists and non-commercial PC apps to use Kinect. Later, Microsoft will allow commercial developers to create apps for it as well, but it's still working out the details.
The move could rekindle consumer interest in Windows, which is feeling sales pressure from tablet computers running non-Microsoft operating systems like Apple's iPad and Google's Android. While Kinect is a decent little business for Microsoft -- it probably booked more than $1 billion in sales during the holidays -- Windows is still the company's biggest and most profitable product by far, earning about $13 billion on about $19 billion in revenue over the last year.
Now, don't miss: The Story Behind Kinect, Microsoft's Newest Billion-Dollar Business.
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Home usage of the PC is down 20% since 2008, according to this chart from a Morgan Stanley report examining the burgeoning tablet market.
What's changed in the last few years? The growth of the smartphones and tablets, says Morgan Stanley. As people use smartphones for more simple computing tasks like web surfing, they use traditional PCs less.
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