“Essentially, I live on this thing and don’t know what I would do without it,” she said. Yet she still lugs around a laptop for things her phone can’t do as well: editing photos and video and storing and backing up files. That gap could close Tuesday when Samsung’s fierce rival Apple unveils its newest iPhone. “That’s going to be the next big battleground,” said Patrick Moorhead, president and principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy. And many phone users can now accomplish most of the things they need to do online on a device that fits in their pocket.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 12, 2017 10:02 UTC