Cell phones are becoming more powerful every day. The ability of chip companies to make them smaller and yet more powerful, is the new race in the technical fields. Battery life has dramatically increased over the last couple of year, with promises of better and more life. In our lifetimes we may see fuel cell batteries that fit into an old battery slot. The screen resolutions are increasing with each model, as well as the sizes and the amount of them on each device. You almost can't call them cell phones anymore. The phone part is rapidly becoming a secondary function. Emailing, text messaging, web surfing, picture taking and video recording options is what's driving the purchases today.

Add-on flash memory modules, such as SD, miniSD and microSD are holding more data then ever before. 2GB and 4GB are commonplace now, with 8GB and 16GB sizes on the near horizon.Windows Mobile is on more and more devices, with other OS's like Linux and Palm tight there. The Apple iPhone is rapidly taking a share of the marketplace, and even Google talking about it's own phone. The PDA's that were once larger than your hand are shrinking in overall size, while increasing in their power and abilities.

I believe in ten years, what you call a cell phone and laptop today, will be what you hold in the palm of your hand.