In contrast to phone apps-which are designed to run on the handset itself, using the phone’s hardware and operating system-portable apps run on a host computer, using the computer’s RAM and display, but they save all their data and settings to your portable drive (or your phone’s internal memory). Wouldn’t it be great if you could ditch your laptop, carry just your smartphone, and still be able to work in a Windows PC (or OS X or Linux) environment when you need to? You can do that, with the help of portable apps. Consequently, most mobile professionals continue to lug around a bulky laptop in addition to their smartphone. However, a lot of tasks, such as word processing and Web browsing, are still more easily accomplished using the larger keyboard and monitor of a traditional laptop or PC. This shift, of course, is primarily due to the immense number of apps written for both types of phones. Mobile computing has long been dominated by laptop computers, but powerful new smartphones such as the Apple iPhone 4 and the various Android phones-including the new Motorola Droid X-are rapidly becoming the portable computing devices of choice.

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