Are you old enough to remember black and white TV, vinyl records and 8-track tapes? What about the Pet Rock? If you are old enough, you're acutely aware of how limited and almost laughable old-school technology can seem--even technologies that are not so old in relative terms. The market for smartphones and applications for them is raging, and, whenever I'm out in public I notice how tightly integrated with people's lives their smartphones are.
Open source, is, of course, going to be a huge part of the future of smartphones, and I don't doubt that application contributions from the open source community could shift their future dramatically. This week, I noticed a number of developments that made me think of some seemingly far-out but entirely doable scenarios for the smartphone future. They could make today's phones seem like stripped down novelties, and might even qualify as revolutions.
