I never said ARM. ARM != mobile, a point you make yourself but apparently didn't follow through to its logical conclusion. I also did say the future. Only prototypes exist now (though they do exist), but I don't expect widespread adoption for at least another three years. In three years, a cell phone with at least as much power as a netbook of today will be perfectly feasible.
I don't much care what's in them. I'm much more interested in whether they are open computers with a cell phone attached, or closed cell phones with vaguely computery locked down capabilities.
These are just my thoughts, I wasn't attacking you. I was hoping for a refutation of my argument, if you can spare the time.
BTW: arguably, a cell phones are already comparable in performance to netbooks: my old eee PC has a 900MHz celeron (though less powerful than today's netbooks); the samsung galaxy 2 has a dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A9, and the Transformer Prime has a quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A9 (though that's a tablet, not a cell phone)
I don't much care what's in them. I'm much more interested in whether they are open computers with a cell phone attached, or closed cell phones with vaguely computery locked down capabilities.