> As a thought experiment, what if Moore's Law scaling had ended in 2000? No smartphones. 2000? No, we would still have had smartphones. We were not in stone a

> As a thought experiment, what if Moore's Law scaling had ended in 2000? No smartphones. 2000? No, we would still have had smartphones. We were not in stone age anymore. Mass market smartphones would have eventually been built with that era process technology. By year 2000, we had full color displays and StrongARM CPUs 206 MHz+, similar process could stretch to 400-500 MHz. We'd have our beloved smartphones. Just with lower resolution screens (at most 640x480), slower CPUs (200-500 MHz single core, 8 kB L1 cache), 64-128 MB RAM and less storage (up to 1 GB). Packet data connections would have likely been limited way below 1 Mbit/s. (A)GPS would exist, but be much less sensitive (needs a lot of processing power) and take a lot longer to lock. Web browsers and other apps would have eventually been developed that work smoothly with such limited HW. I think I could have lived with such a moore's-law-stopped-year-2000-device. See what roughly 2000 StrongARM can do in a mobile device (PocketPC Tomb Raider, just like the original Playstation version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TujJ4nf31rI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TujJ4nf31rI Or these demos (run nicely on 2000 PocketPC HW): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjZupXHhflA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjZupXHhflA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2CDOtHswR0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2CDOtHswR0