Phone Cases That Serve As Wallets Underscore How Badly We Need Mobile Payment and ID
Even before the smartphones were integrated into our daily lives, before Blackberries, the original iPhone, and the HTC G1 , there was the Palm Pilot. And I could not be more excited by it when Dave the Mobile Warrior showed me his Palm from US Robotics. It was an eye opener. Prior to that, I was using Casio made personal digital assistants (PDA) with black-and-white screens. But the Pilot was a competely innovative device that was the future. If you consider just how forward thinking the Palm was, even with its ancient input with the plastic stylus, you knew this was the future. And let's be honest, be it the iPhone or a Galaxy Note, they owed their DNA to the Palm. And when I upgraded to the Palm Zire with an integrated camera, that was the moment when I realized the value of having a mobile computer that you can carry in your pocket and you take everywhere with you. The only thing I carried around in my pocket, then and now, is my walle...