Mobile phones, smartphones, and other mobile phone devices are the latest technology that makes people crazy. They are for me head turners in the shopping malls or some IT stores. Not to consider the Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) or the netbooks that everyone is buzzing which is an exciting area to track also. I could see that the gap between mobile phone and UMPC are getting narrower. Almost everything that a UMPC could do can now be done by smartphones. Though it would only be in a smaller scale and the way things are done on it is a bit awkward due to the physical limitation of the gadget, but none the less the gadget have the capability to do similar things.

You can browse the Internet, chat, record videos, listen to music, watch movie, track schedules, edit documents, read emails, and a lot of other thing that are common on both devices. The only difference I guess is that UMPC does not receive SMS advertisements which is plaguing mobile devices. Advertisements are catching up with mobile phone devices and smartphones. Mobile Marketing, I have observed have become aggressive these days. I get all sorts of mobile phone games, lottery, and interactive contests on my phone. Daily SMS regarding products and new movies are flooding my mobile phone.

As technology is evolves, the medium of advertisement expands also to gadgets like mobile phone devices. I could see this as a trend of the future and whether we like it or not we have to live with it. But I hope there will be something like an ad block capability in mobile phone similar to spam block in the future as these advertisements are getting annoying already.