**The Future of Mobile Computing: Quad-Core Phones and Convergence**

We're still waiting to see what quad-core phones like the HTC One X can do, but generally speaking, they're ahead of the pack. Companies have been working hard to get their phones out first, with many trying to catch up to Apple's latest releases.

One company that's trying a new approach is Asus, which has released a powerful phone called the Pad Phone. This device plugs into the back of a tablet and provides power, allowing users to use it as they would a laptop. It's an interesting concept, but one that raises questions about whether we really need both a phone and a tablet.

Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system is another game-changer in this space. With its beautiful tablet interface and ease of use, Microsoft is trying to bridge the gap between smartphones and computers. By including the option to plug into two monitors, get a full desktop experience, and use it with a mouse and keyboard, Microsoft is giving users the flexibility they need.

So, what were some of our favorite phones recently? My personal favorite was the HTC One X, which is a powerful device that's still impressive despite its slightly less powerful specs. The LG Optimus 4X HD is another quad-core phone that I found really beautiful and useful. Nokia's Lumia 900 is also worth mentioning, as it's a huge release for Europe and marks a significant return to form for the company.

But are these phones really trumping the iPhone? As someone who carries both an iPhone and an Android device, I can say that the choice ultimately depends on what you want. For example, when I was in Barcelona, I found that my Android phone gave me features like Google Maps that my iPhone couldn't access. And with faster data networks becoming increasingly available, it's clear that Android phones are where it's at.

However, as devices become more powerful, the reliance will shift to developers and their apps. This means that consumers will start to see what they can do with their phone, rather than simply which device is more powerful. It's an exciting time for mobile computing, and we're eager to see what the future holds.

**The Next Big Thing: iPad 3 and Beyond**

We're already hearing rumors about the next big thing in tech: the iPad 3. With its rumored improved display and faster processor, this device is shaping up to be a game-changer. Will it be enough to finally surpass the iPhone? Only time will tell.

In the meantime, we have to wonder what other devices are coming down the pipeline. What about the HTC One X when it releases in the US? And how will Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system continue to evolve and improve?

One thing is for sure: Apple always seems to be one step ahead of the competition. From Ferrari releasing a white model because it's "cool" to release it, to the iPhone being consistently popular among consumers, it's clear that Apple has a hold on people's hearts (and wallets).

**Conclusion**

As we wait to see what the future holds for mobile computing, one thing is certain: it's going to be exciting. With quad-core phones like the HTC One X and Asus Pad Phone leading the charge, and Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system providing a unique blend of ease of use and flexibility, there's never been a better time to explore the possibilities of mobile computing.

Whether you're an Android fan or an iPhone devotee, one thing is clear: the choice between smartphones and computers is becoming less relevant. With devices getting more powerful by the day, it's up to developers to create apps that take advantage of this power. As we look to the future, we can't wait to see what's in store for us.

**Geneva Auto Show**

And speaking of exciting things coming soon, have you heard about the Geneva Auto Show? It's happening this week, and it's shaping up to be a highlight of the tech and automotive seasons. With Ferrari releasing its latest model in white because it's "cool" (thanks Apple!), we're sure to see some amazing new devices on display.

Todd Hasselton, Senior Editor at Technobuffalo, is one person you can count on to give us all the inside scoop from the Geneva Auto Show. Follow him on Twitter for all the latest updates and news!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enlet's talk about what's going on in the tech world because first of all the ipad 3 is all the buzz but there's a lot of other stuff going on these days todd hasselton is with us right now senior editor technobuffalo we love the love you guys follow them on twitter at technobuffalo um okay before we get to the ipad 3 sure what do you got in your hands this is the new galaxy note 10.1 from samsung it was announced last week in barcelona we were there on the show floor so it's very similar to the galaxy note that launched on a t there's a big super bowl commercial a huge phone in the united states now and so it's got a lot of similar technology uh and the stylus here and we can get it to work but you use a pen you use a pen yeah so it's about content creation for a lot of the parts so you can take notes on the device you can use photoshop mobile to draw pictures edit pictures stuff like that so it's sort of something that i see better used in classrooms as opposed to or or people that just want to be creative on the side more so than the ipad i don't know you know we'll have to see what the ipad 3 is going to going to offer but right now this is sort of what was new at the show among many other things one of the things that impressed you the most it was one of the things that did impress me the most because it's taking something that usually everybody's like stylus why do i want a stylist and now it's kind of showing that hey you can use a stylus for interesting things and it's actually pretty fun the only thing i wish is that it's stored inside yeah they didn't do that no huh just like the phone um let's talk about the ipad 3 because i know that's everything everybody's interested in what are we hearing about it so today there were rumors that just broke that it's the 16th it could launch so tomorrow is the announcement date they kind of apple stole the show a little bit during mobile world congress when eric schmidt google's chairman took the stage and was trying to talk about android then apple sends out a press release from six thousand miles away oh my god everybody's turning their heads and saying hey so ipad 3 wednesday the 7th so now rumor this morning is that it'll hit store shelves on the 16th but it's still rumors so we'll see did totally do that on purpose and i know we're hearing better screen things like that but see pretty much same product well i don't know i think it could be it's supposed to offer better battery life although with a quad core processor among the rumors that remains to be unseen too because quad core is obviously going to suck some power then of course there's lte support supposed to be um again hit another store yesterday which would mean it will run on att and verizon's faster networks again a battery drain so it could be a little thicker in order to balance out right we did hear that tell us again about the um the quad core quad core so quad core is huge that was also big in barcelona what it will enable i think at first is better gaming but i think right now you have the power from uh nvidia tegra 3 that's the chip that was mostly announced at in um in barcelona but you have the power it's just now up to developers and software creators to sort of see what we can do with that power right so you have enough there but we don't really know what we can do with it yet and i think apple will have to show that on stage tomorrow and i think all of these phone manufacturers that are announcing quad-core devices are really going to have to show us what can be done with that so quad core is the way to go well i'm not sure yet because right now we have dual core at the high end yeah and quad-core processors that were announced in phones htc one x for example it will launch as a quad-core phone in europe but in the united states it has to be dual core because the chipset currently doesn't support att's faster networks so it's sort of we still have to wait to see you know what can be done with quad-core htc generally like ahead of the pack though right yeah they've been really good at getting ahead with the with the best phones the fastest it was one of my favorite phones when i first started like when you know the cell phone crease started yeah so um okay we're waiting the air and what happens with this quad core right let's talk though about this notion that your phone or your tablet is pretty much you're only going to need one thing i think at the end of the day right you're not going to need a computer at home and a mat a laptop and yeah right and there's two clips there's two fronts to this convergence so a company called asus is trying this with their pad phone which is a powerful phone that then sort of plugs into the back of a tablet to then power the tablet and then you can plug the tablet into a keyboard to create a laptop so that's kind of interesting new way to do it but then you have microsoft's windows 8 operating system which has a beautiful tablet interface easy to use sort of going after the uh the way apple does things where you don't have to think too much to get what you need but then you can plug into two monitors get the full desktop experience something that we haven't seen before either so you get power and ease of use depending on where you need it because it's the power that you were missing with the ipad right because right i've seen people with ipads and keyboards it looks like a little laptop right but you're not getting a full desktop experience and so what microsoft's trying to do is give you that tablet experience and then the option to plug in monitors and a mouse and a keyboard and then use it as you would sort of windows 7 right now with the full desktop computing experience what was um what were some of your favorite phones my favorite phone i would say the one x from htc because it's so powerful unfortunately it'll come a little less powerful when it lands on a tnt yeah also the lg optimus 4x hd another quad core phone really beautiful display really nice phone nokia's lumia 900 we already know that's coming to a t in the united states they announced that at ces this year but it's a huge announcement for europe because all of a sudden now they have their own flagship product and nokia's always been pretty huge in the european market do all these phones trump the iphone that's up to the user i think you know right now i carry an iphone but i also carry an android device from time to time in barcelona it was great to have an android phone because i was able to star places on google maps it was easier to get around something my my iphone couldn't do and especially when you get into these faster data networks the iphone doesn't support them yet so it's really want it's what the consumer wants if you want these att or verizon's i think there's so much unknown out there though like i don't know really the difference between the droid and the iphone yeah i mean it's really about playing with devices and consumers seeing to find out what they want but as you get more powerful i think we'll see the reliance fall on developers and so consumers will start to see hey i can do this with my phone because developers are saying you know we have the power and this is where you can so what's the next big thing to look for ipad 3. really yeah it's going to be huge i think so i think so it depends how long the lines are and what about these phones when these phones come to the united states what are you getting i'm looking at the lumia 900 still you know i really want to see nokia get back in shape in the united states it's a beautiful device windows phone is a great platform i want to see where microsoft takes it uh but also you know the htc one x is a beautiful phone too so well then you got to come back then there's the iphone 5 and there's the iphone 5 coming you're right so you got it everybody's trying to catch up okay to apple yeah yeah they're all trying to sort of pre-plan what apple's going to have and sort of get their devices out first that people are talking apple still wins at the end of the day though no i think so when apple talks people listen seems to be right you know i heard the other day that ferrari is putting their new one out in white because of apple products there you go we're at the geneva auto show this week actually too check out the white ferrari yeah todd you're awesome todd hasselton senior editor technobuffalo follow them at technobuffalo you're great thank you thank youlet's talk about what's going on in the tech world because first of all the ipad 3 is all the buzz but there's a lot of other stuff going on these days todd hasselton is with us right now senior editor technobuffalo we love the love you guys follow them on twitter at technobuffalo um okay before we get to the ipad 3 sure what do you got in your hands this is the new galaxy note 10.1 from samsung it was announced last week in barcelona we were there on the show floor so it's very similar to the galaxy note that launched on a t there's a big super bowl commercial a huge phone in the united states now and so it's got a lot of similar technology uh and the stylus here and we can get it to work but you use a pen you use a pen yeah so it's about content creation for a lot of the parts so you can take notes on the device you can use photoshop mobile to draw pictures edit pictures stuff like that so it's sort of something that i see better used in classrooms as opposed to or or people that just want to be creative on the side more so than the ipad i don't know you know we'll have to see what the ipad 3 is going to going to offer but right now this is sort of what was new at the show among many other things one of the things that impressed you the most it was one of the things that did impress me the most because it's taking something that usually everybody's like stylus why do i want a stylist and now it's kind of showing that hey you can use a stylus for interesting things and it's actually pretty fun the only thing i wish is that it's stored inside yeah they didn't do that no huh just like the phone um let's talk about the ipad 3 because i know that's everything everybody's interested in what are we hearing about it so today there were rumors that just broke that it's the 16th it could launch so tomorrow is the announcement date they kind of apple stole the show a little bit during mobile world congress when eric schmidt google's chairman took the stage and was trying to talk about android then apple sends out a press release from six thousand miles away oh my god everybody's turning their heads and saying hey so ipad 3 wednesday the 7th so now rumor this morning is that it'll hit store shelves on the 16th but it's still rumors so we'll see did totally do that on purpose and i know we're hearing better screen things like that but see pretty much same product well i don't know i think it could be it's supposed to offer better battery life although with a quad core processor among the rumors that remains to be unseen too because quad core is obviously going to suck some power then of course there's lte support supposed to be um again hit another store yesterday which would mean it will run on att and verizon's faster networks again a battery drain so it could be a little thicker in order to balance out right we did hear that tell us again about the um the quad core quad core so quad core is huge that was also big in barcelona what it will enable i think at first is better gaming but i think right now you have the power from uh nvidia tegra 3 that's the chip that was mostly announced at in um in barcelona but you have the power it's just now up to developers and software creators to sort of see what we can do with that power right so you have enough there but we don't really know what we can do with it yet and i think apple will have to show that on stage tomorrow and i think all of these phone manufacturers that are announcing quad-core devices are really going to have to show us what can be done with that so quad core is the way to go well i'm not sure yet because right now we have dual core at the high end yeah and quad-core processors that were announced in phones htc one x for example it will launch as a quad-core phone in europe but in the united states it has to be dual core because the chipset currently doesn't support att's faster networks so it's sort of we still have to wait to see you know what can be done with quad-core htc generally like ahead of the pack though right yeah they've been really good at getting ahead with the with the best phones the fastest it was one of my favorite phones when i first started like when you know the cell phone crease started yeah so um okay we're waiting the air and what happens with this quad core right let's talk though about this notion that your phone or your tablet is pretty much you're only going to need one thing i think at the end of the day right you're not going to need a computer at home and a mat a laptop and yeah right and there's two clips there's two fronts to this convergence so a company called asus is trying this with their pad phone which is a powerful phone that then sort of plugs into the back of a tablet to then power the tablet and then you can plug the tablet into a keyboard to create a laptop so that's kind of interesting new way to do it but then you have microsoft's windows 8 operating system which has a beautiful tablet interface easy to use sort of going after the uh the way apple does things where you don't have to think too much to get what you need but then you can plug into two monitors get the full desktop experience something that we haven't seen before either so you get power and ease of use depending on where you need it because it's the power that you were missing with the ipad right because right i've seen people with ipads and keyboards it looks like a little laptop right but you're not getting a full desktop experience and so what microsoft's trying to do is give you that tablet experience and then the option to plug in monitors and a mouse and a keyboard and then use it as you would sort of windows 7 right now with the full desktop computing experience what was um what were some of your favorite phones my favorite phone i would say the one x from htc because it's so powerful unfortunately it'll come a little less powerful when it lands on a tnt yeah also the lg optimus 4x hd another quad core phone really beautiful display really nice phone nokia's lumia 900 we already know that's coming to a t in the united states they announced that at ces this year but it's a huge announcement for europe because all of a sudden now they have their own flagship product and nokia's always been pretty huge in the european market do all these phones trump the iphone that's up to the user i think you know right now i carry an iphone but i also carry an android device from time to time in barcelona it was great to have an android phone because i was able to star places on google maps it was easier to get around something my my iphone couldn't do and especially when you get into these faster data networks the iphone doesn't support them yet so it's really want it's what the consumer wants if you want these att or verizon's i think there's so much unknown out there though like i don't know really the difference between the droid and the iphone yeah i mean it's really about playing with devices and consumers seeing to find out what they want but as you get more powerful i think we'll see the reliance fall on developers and so consumers will start to see hey i can do this with my phone because developers are saying you know we have the power and this is where you can so what's the next big thing to look for ipad 3. really yeah it's going to be huge i think so i think so it depends how long the lines are and what about these phones when these phones come to the united states what are you getting i'm looking at the lumia 900 still you know i really want to see nokia get back in shape in the united states it's a beautiful device windows phone is a great platform i want to see where microsoft takes it uh but also you know the htc one x is a beautiful phone too so well then you got to come back then there's the iphone 5 and there's the iphone 5 coming you're right so you got it everybody's trying to catch up okay to apple yeah yeah they're all trying to sort of pre-plan what apple's going to have and sort of get their devices out first that people are talking apple still wins at the end of the day though no i think so when apple talks people listen seems to be right you know i heard the other day that ferrari is putting their new one out in white because of apple products there you go we're at the geneva auto show this week actually too check out the white ferrari yeah todd you're awesome todd hasselton senior editor technobuffalo follow them at technobuffalo you're great thank you thank you\n"