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| What's 35 this week? The mobile phone. Before I'd drowned out by a roar of protests... I'm not for a moment suggesting that ALL mobiles should be covered. But in those 35 years, mobiles have come a long way. For instance: "what's got a TFT screen, a QWERTY Keyboard and runs Windows on an Intel processor?" A computer, surely? Not necessarily; a Smartphone does too. It seems illogical to me to cover the Sinclair Spectrum, but to exclude smartphones; to cover Linux, but to bar Symbian. To welcome the Asus EEE, but eschew the Nokia E61. A computer is "a machine for running programs" - and for which a selection of different programs can be loaded. Why the Apartheid?
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Because you have to draw the line somewhere or else you end up with a magazine with no focus. And magazines with no focus don't sell. Not everyone is going to agree about where that line is drawn, of course.
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imo, MM does it very well 
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Jason (07/04/2008)
Because you have to draw the line somewhere or else you end up with a magazine with no focus. And magazines with no focus don't sell. Not everyone is going to agree about where that line is drawn, of course.
I'd agree... but repeat my assertion that Smartphones are - and are increasingly - computers. In fact they're more like "mainstream" desktops and laptops than is (for example) The Sinclair Spectrum. Of course... the downside might be that coverage of them would induce less advertising revenue than (say) Asus's EEE. The EEE shows (one of) the directions that mobile devices are headed. Smartphones are merely a similar path in the same direction. Or perhaps the other end of the same path?)
MicroMart seems to me to be splendidly focussed - it "writes like it knows who its intended audience is". And I'd suggest that that a slice of that audience is actually rather more likely to own - or be thinking of buying - a combined PDA/Phone than (say) a reader of Gardiner's World would be.
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Maybe there will be more coverage of such items as they become more widespread. Personally I don't know a single person who uses a smartphone. As for the Spectrum, it's good to keep in touch with your roots, and many readers are thirty-somethings who get a kick from the nostalgia.
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[quote]BigRon (07/04/2008)
A computer is "a machine for running programs" /quote] Does this qualify? http://www.bcsc.co.uk/info/speedpilot.html Or perhaps all the computers used for airborne activities from World War 2? Or even Mr Babbage's machines? I could go on, but I don't really want to start an argument (he lied) 
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PDAs do look set to become more useful personal computers.
(Shuttleworth has even revealed 'plans' for a Ubuntu PDA.)
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