"Also, the S III has a barometer. How cool is that?"
The number of sensors in these portable computers is astonishing. If you look at them as a tricorder-like sensor kit, there's very little else on the market that can match them.
The fact that I have something in my pocket right now that can almost detect individual photons, EM fields (within in a limited set of bands), barometric pressure, magnetic fields, orientation, intertial measurements, planetary magnetic bearing, gravitational fields, etc. and can provide global satellite positioning to within 1m, global communications network access on several wire-free networks via voice, video or data, and can translate my voice in near-real-time, scan barcodes,
and then
can play games, movies, music, record my voice, take photos, be a flashlight, compose music, let me paint a picture, take notes, access a global encyclopedia, the internet, be a web server, an ftp server, a wireless headset to my computer, act as a strobe light, act as a visual Morse-code broadcaster, rolodex, email system, several kinds of graphing calculators...and myriad other uses...
it's absurd. I'm living, literally, in a science fiction future.
The number of sensors in these portable computers is astonishing. If you look at them as a tricorder-like sensor kit, there's very little else on the market that can match them.
The fact that I have something in my pocket right now that can almost detect individual photons, EM fields (within in a limited set of bands), barometric pressure, magnetic fields, orientation, intertial measurements, planetary magnetic bearing, gravitational fields, etc. and can provide global satellite positioning to within 1m, global communications network access on several wire-free networks via voice, video or data, and can translate my voice in near-real-time, scan barcodes,
and then
can play games, movies, music, record my voice, take photos, be a flashlight, compose music, let me paint a picture, take notes, access a global encyclopedia, the internet, be a web server, an ftp server, a wireless headset to my computer, act as a strobe light, act as a visual Morse-code broadcaster, rolodex, email system, several kinds of graphing calculators...and myriad other uses...
it's absurd. I'm living, literally, in a science fiction future.