New mobile... thing

As my assignment to the lecture about tele (which I had to skip because I was in Helsinki for a week) I read an article "Mobile VoIP could radically change cellphone use". As I'm bit into mobile phones myself, I find it quite interesting how this field will develop in near future.

So far, mobile phones, although they have derived quite many tasks of today's computers (surfing the web, reading mail, games, office software, etc.) and even have some new features also not common to first mobile phones concepts (camera, video calls), there's still one difference between mobile phones and computers - they use different networks. Both networks for mobile phones (NMT => GSM => 3G) and computers (dial-up? => LAN => wireless) are developing, becoming faster, wider. Now it's time for mobile phones to grab a bite of fast and relatevely cheaper wireless networking. New mobile phones (Nokia N80, N95) already have a WiFi compatibility.

Of course, with access to the Internet via the "computer-way" you'll start thinking - hey, why I must pay for my calls if I can have them free over the Internet? Here's were VOIP and Skype step into mobile business. This technology will but mobile networking in a danger, as they can not suck so much money out of a customer, so it's announced that VOIP on mobile phone will still cost some. We'll see.

I'm curious about how will mobile devices look when all features of mobilephones and computers are mixed into one device. Currently mobile phones still have too small screen to be fully used instead of laptops, as well as you can't use your laptop as a mobile phone.

Comments are welcome! :)