When companies started to integrate cellphone chips into pda’s that resulted in smartphones. Smartphones were and are exactly what people want. I used to carry a pda around when cellphones were only capable of making and receiving phonecalls and text messages. I even carried a pda around when cellphones were big bulky suitcases with a receiver.

With the coming of the smartphone, the pda died. But Intel wants to re-invent the pda. This time it is not supposed to be a not-connected device but a smart device: One that keeps track of where you are, so it’ll be able to warn you when to grab your umbrella.

But that’s not all. The new pda must be able to grab all kinds of internet-provided information, combine it and serve you with what you need. Interaction is key, but the focus is on the device being intelligent and autonomous.

Through powerful, small form factor mobile devices that have new ways of interacting with the environment around them, offer new ways for users to interact with the device and provide new ways of experiencing internet based data and services, our daily personal entertainment, interactions with others and the environment around us will soon be greatly enhanced.

If I look at the current situation and available technology, I think by making use of what is available on the internet already, this goal will not be hard to reach. I just hope Intel realizes that a cellphone chip is mandatory, and flatfee mobile internet is a must on a device these days.

What do you think the all new Intel PDA should be capable of doing? How would you use it?

Read more about Intels program, called Carry Small, Live Large here.