Technology Trends Favor Thick Clients for User–Carried Wireless Devices

A thin client approach to mobile computing pushes as many services as possible on a remote server. However, as will be shown, technology trends indicate that an easy route to improving thin client functionality is to “thicken” the client through addition of disk storage, CPU, and RAM. Thus, thin clients will rapidly become multi-purpose thick clients. With time, users may come to consider their mobile system as their primary general–purpose computing device, with their most used files maintained on the mobile system and with