And formost people outsideof Silicon Valley, where some entrepreneursallegedlydo noteven knowhow tousetheirsmartphone to place a phone call, it will remainthemost important onefor.
Network carriers in particular are scrambling to compete with the new wave of mobile upstarts that have turned Silicon Valley into SmartphoneValley in less than 3 years.
But Google co-founder Sergey Brin's presentation at TED, in which he characterized wearing Google Glass as somehow more macho than pulling your smartphone out of your pocket, underscores the tone-deafness that can envelop Silicon Valley when VIPs get a little too excited about the Next Big Thing.