kaled - 12:48 am on Jan 22, 2010 (gmt 0)

This seems quite plausible to me, however, the quality and price will have to be right. I used to think tablet computers would take over the world, however, I now believe that ten years from now the computer market will be very different...

Your computer will be in your phone. Your phone will plug into a docking station to provide a desktop, laptop or tablet PC. The same phone will also plug into a docking station in your car to provide sat-nav functionality. I'm not saying your phone will be your computer but rather that the phone will house a standard computer module (solid-state and very tough) and will act as its caddy allowing it to plug into larger devices. In turn, the computer module will provide all the advanced features expected of a modern phone.

We are very close to being able to do this now. Five years from now it should be easy, so ten years from now it's likely to have happened (unless something even better comes along).

Kaled.