The real deal on Smart Phones outselling PCs

The news today is that smart phones outsold PCs over the past three months of 2010. Makers of mobile devices distributed a total of 101 million smartphones in the last three months of the year -- up 87% year-over-year, according to International Data Corp.

Certainly this is an exciting trend that indicates how the world is changing the way that they look for information and use phones. However, this also indicates an important trend that is lost in the overall statistics: there is a huge shift in how consumers are interacting with objects and information while out of home. The doors are opening up for all kinds of mobile consumer services for shopping and entertainment that would not have been viable even a short time ago.