Cellphones have developed amazingly from the heavy and costly units to inexpensive ones. One of the extra serious problems with Android is their fragmented platform. Most apps rely upon a more recent version of Android which means you either have to improve your OS or purchase a newer telephone. Since most carriers take their time to release an upgrade, you are left behind whereas newer phones enjoy these cool apps. I think most carriers delay their upgrades with a purpose to provoke folks to buy newer telephones. Truly, I wouldn’t be shocked. Apart from the different versions of Android, you also have manufacturer particular skins on prime of Android. HTC has SenseUI, Samsung has TouchWiz, and Motorola has MotoBlur. Each manufacturer takes Android and turns it into their own unique version. This makes the experience on every gadget completely different. The end result? Fragmentation.

John, your telephone example, and things like it, fails mostly on account of expertise improvements. The downward pressure of both competition (despite the fact that it is an oligarchical trade -Samsung, Apple, Google, Microsoft- the competitors is fierce) and technological improvements who’s cost per unit retains lowering far outweigh the upward strain of increased demand. On launch day, only some handsets working Home windows Cellphone 7 have been announced, together with fashions from HTC and Samsung, all of which regarded reasonably spectacular but none had anything to make customers say “wow”. Most have been variants on current fashions operating other working systems.

All that left only the shortage of phones in the house. Our current cordless phones had “talking caller id” – it could announce the caller verbally, and I actually appreciated that possibility. I had prieviously thought that with the proliferation of bluetooth connections somebody must make a connection to go from a landline to …