Last year was the year of early adopters for computing ubiquity on a mobile basis. The advent of the smartphone hit the knee of the curve as a beneficial confluence of price and accessibility drove the market. Whatever innovations are seen this year will step within the existing ecology of dominant operating systems like Android, the developing ecology of apps and attempts to drive location services and payment systems.
Perhaps 2011 will be the year that embeds mobile computing, especially in the laggards of the West. The innovative advances of the poor will be used to our advantage.
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