The Economist Technology Quarterly, March 12^th 2005, Phones with Eyes, The Talking Cure, The device that ate everything? 30.

Questions:

1)      What is an “ipod killer” ?

2)      What is a PDA? What can you do with it?

3)      Will the mobile phone become “ the device that ate everything?”

4)      Phones and PDAs : a battle or a marriage?

5)      “Hybrids” : pros and cons : would you buy a camera with a built-in phone? Why or why not? Give precise arguments.

6)      In the spectrum between mobile phone and music player, describe the range of functions.

7)      All in one superphones or something else? Imagine the future. Give good consumer arguments.