One day your smartphone could be your only computer

With each passing season, another wave of better, more advanced mobile devices is released and sometimes it’s too much for us to keep up with. We’re at a point where anyone who has a current smartphone or tablet is able to control almost all of their tasks, at home and at work!

If you think about it, a few years ago this wasn't the case at all. In 2011 the Motorola Atrix could pair with a laptop for a limited smartphone-based computer experience. The smartphones of 2011 and 2012 weren't quite powerful enough to fulfill all of our demands.

Now, in 2015, thanks to increased power, battery life, improved networking speeds and larger screen sizes, the shift away from the desktop is getting more and more imminent. Think about it… Will we always need a desktop computer? No, not all of us will and some of us already don’t!

Chipmaker ARM believes that with its new chips announced last week – a new Cortex-A72 processor and Mali-T880 GPU – we’ll be able to use our smartphones to do all the tasks we use our computer to do! The company is so confident, that they predict that in 2016, we will go phone-only. But, that’s yet to be seen, although I don’t doubt it at the rate we are going at the moment.

The global PC industry has actually been on a downward trend for the past few years, because the smartphone’s popularity and functionality continues to grow and grow. Tablets are now replacing the need for a notebook and large sized smartphones are taking the place of tablets.

As people, we really do like our mobile devices and if you look at the whole world, it’s actually our primary computing device. The desktop computer has become somewhat useless and a second choice to us.

While the smartphone’s hardware and software will be technically able to handle tasks we’d normally do on our computers, making the switch from smartphone plus tablet plus desktop to smartphone-only will take a little bit of an adjustment.

Although, for many people the smartphone won’t replace the devices that are larger and have a physical keyboard, but if a smartphone can do all the things PCs, digital cameras, GPS navigation devices, MP3 players and DVD players can do than yes, smartphones could be the only computing device for some people.

Paired with a monitor and a Bluetooth keyboard at work, or streaming over WiFi to a TV set at home, in a few years (or less) there’s no reason why, for the vast majority of us, a smartphone couldn't handle our daily computing needs.

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Written By: Christine Romans
CopyWriter at The Computer Guyz Cape Town