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Is the Smartphone the Next PC Device?

By Judy Mottl
October 24, 2008

Over half of today's desktop computer users are willing to trade the PC for a smartphone for Internet use, illustrating how mobile devices are fulfilling the promise of next-generation computing.

That's a top finding of a new IBM survey polling 600 users in the US, China and UK on how what they like and don't like about mobile Internet use

Mobile device Internet activities including communications, navigation and information services are predicted to be most popular as the user base grows to 5.8 billion by 2013 -- a 30 percent jump over today's current mobile Internet user population.

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