A new era
Today my new mobile arrived, and no, it's no Apple iPhone. But it is almost like that, it's a HTC Magic with Android as operating system. The first impressions are really fine, it's fun to use it. OK, the software isn't very mature, it's still release 1.5. But there are already many apps available in the Android Market and they are easy to install, test and remove if not neaded. You'll read more about my experiences the next days.
But that's not the important point today. I've started my online carreer somewhere in the 80s when I've used a 1200/75 acoustic coupler. It has been fun, but due to the time-based costs I've had to take care to not stay online too long. While the technology changed and got faster the cost first changed with DSL and flatrates. Today we've got VDSL with 50 mbit/s down- and 10 mbits upstream. Beside using this bandwidth for IPTV we don't care for size and time. This already changed the media behaviour of our childs. Their passive TV consumption is less than ours in the same age. But they are using the net activly for watching those music videos they want (both got no mainstream liking), for learing for school, and for learning their hobbies. The older one learned playing piano, the younger one drawing mangas. And both are really good. *smile*
So while this already has been one step the next one - the era I'm writing about - will be the mobile net. First Apple, now Google, are pushing mobile devices which are allways online, use location based services in many ways, and are extentable with lots of apps. Those devices - portable computers which coincidentally can also be used as a telephone - together with the flatrates and now available higher bandwidths will change the mobile world like DSL and flatrates changed the world of standalone PCs into the networked world of today. So let's welcome this new era, the mobile networked world of the future.
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