At the Mobilebeat 2010 conference, Verizon director of new technology and development, Humphrey Chen, spoke publicly about how smartphones will soon encroach onto the home PC market. The provider is even considering offering a docking station complete with a keyboard, camera and monitor that could effectively turn a smartphone into a desktop PC. Chen also names the high-speed, next-gen 4G mobile broadband network it's building up as another way to bring Internet speeds to mobile devices closer to those of a home PC.
