If what Texas Instruments‘ Chairman Tom Engibous has said is to be believed. Basically, TI’s strategy to achieve this is by implementing a single-chip mobile phone solution, which by itself, will reduce the manufacturing cost of mobile phones by 30%.
Although this technology will make mobile phones more affordable to the masses, I’m really wondering about the features that this “budget moby” will have. Will it really be single-purpose purpose device, like our classic telephones, which can only be used to make or receive calls? (Eh, that’s two purposes, but what the heck 
). The reason for me wanting to know this is because my mobile phone is not only a communications device, it’s also my watch (I haven’t worn a wristwatch since owning my first moby), calendar, organiser, notepad and ad-hoc camera, among others.
Maybe I’m just not part of this budget moby’s targeted demographics 
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