The latest attempt--a joint venture with Sony--produced a sleek model with a built-in camera and the ability to combine text, graphics, photos and audio clips, but Ericsson has lost market share.

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That said, you'll be hard-pressed to find such extensive content creation apps available on other smartphones, and the ability to combine text, imagery, drawings and written annotations is one of the most compelling features of the Galaxy Note.

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The most attractive services will probably be those that combine voice and text in a clever way: users could, for example, ask for an address and get driving directions on their cell phone display.

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Adobe Collage helps creatives capture and refine ideas and concepts by allowing them to combine inspirational images, drawings, text and Creative Suite files into modern, conceptual moodboards.

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Such wearable computers combine physical reality with augmented video, text or other types of data to provide a distinct interactive experience.

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Facebook's service is designed to combine traditional email, instant message and cellphone text messages into one system, routing messages to whichever service is best for each person, and keeping an archive of it all.

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Envision an environment in the future where we would have the ability to enhance data further by adding analytic capabilities on top of an idea repository and use handwriting recognition and text mining to find, correlate and combine good ideas, making innovation integrated and efficient.

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