In July 2012 you will be able to purchase a 1000GB memory card for your Nokia for just £50. 1 Terabyte of data. What could you do with a Terabyte? You could store 220 of your favourite movies, all in 720p HD and all with 6.1 channel surround sound. You could carry with you over 2500 TV shows. You would certainly take with you every song you've ever listened to and every video and photo you have ever taken.

The thing is, you probably wont bother!

By June 2012 your pocket computer will be connected to an almost infinite amount of data, and thanks to LTE at speeds of over 100Mbit/s, that's an entire DVD's worth of data in a little over 7 minutes. At those speeds local storage becomes almost meaningless, everything can be streamed OTA (over the air) faster than you can consume or creative it.

Even applications will load over the air in an instant, insuring that you always have the most recent version on your device. At those kind of connection speeds it may be advantageous to load the OS over the air when booting.

Think for a moment about the pocket computer of 2012, it has a virtualisation capable multi-core CPU running at speeds in excess of 3Ghz, it has over a Terabyte of local storage, it has a wireless internet connection of 100Mbit/s. What OS the device shipped with will become almost immaterial. Thanks to the marvels of virtualisation, versions of Symbian, OSX, LiMo, Ubuntu Mobile, Android and Windows Mobile will be mere seconds away from the time you eagerly unbox your device.

In 2012 the operating system, the application and hardware will begin to fade into the background. What will shine through more vividly than ever before is you. Your creativity will be what truly matters.

In the meantime, it will fun to watch these computing and mobile phone giants battle it out. On the 11th July we have the entrance of the iPhone 3G and App Store, then later this year perhaps Symbian Touch and Android. Exciting times indeed!