By this day and age, a mobile phone should be nothing more than a tiny, pluggable device. It should be no larger than your thumbnail. We still think of phones in a handful sort of way, with a physical interface. Even though smartphones are mostly computer, we still consider them phones.
Phones are, and will always be two-way data stream enablers. Mobile phones will evolve to be TCP/IP-based, and should, therefore, be considered part of computer gear. That said, the question is "What computer gear should phones be part of?" The answer is "All of it." Why is there not a generic telephone interface on tablets, laptops, handhelds, e-readers, and all devices of the type?
Take a look at what Google did with the Google Voice interface on GMail, and you will understand. There is one, tiny icon shaped like an anachronistic telephone handset. Click it and you get a small pop-up window that allows you to type in a name and start a conversation. Why is this not happening on all devices?
