Technological convergence is occurring across multiple devices. As an example, the iPhone functions as a camera phone, portable media player, and internet client. Game consoles like the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 integrate online multiplayer gaming and media streaming capabilities. The Nintendo DS portable game system offers touchscreen technology, online connectivity, and downloadable games and applications.

1. Technological convergence is different technological systems to evolve towards one product that performs similar tasks. Today, we are surrounded by a multi-level convergent media world where all modes of communication and information are continually reforming to adapt to the enduring demands of technologies, “changing the way we create, consume, learn and interact with each other”. MEDIA CONVERGENCE Single products that show the example of media convergence…

2. iPhone The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia enabled smart phones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPhone functions as a camera phone (also including text messaging and visual voicemail), a portable media player (equivalent to a video iPod), and an Internet client (with e-mail, web browsing, and Wi-Fi connectivity) — using the phone's multi-touch screen to provide a virtual keyboard in lieu of a physical keyboard. The default Home screen of the iPhone shows most of the applications provided by Apple. Users can download additional applications from the App store, create Web Clips, and rearrange the icons.

3. Next Generation of Game Consoles…. Xbox 360 Xbox 720, PS3 and Nintendo Some major features of the Xbox 360 are its integrated Xbox Live service that allows players to compete online, download arcade games, game demos, trailers, TV shows and movies and its Windows Media Centre multimedia capabilities. The PlayStation 3 is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment, and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. A major feature that distinguishes the PlayStation 3 from its predecessors is its unified online gaming service EVERYTHINGS ONLINE!!!

4. Nintendo camera, sound recording, internet access to play online etc,. Hundreds of games, Touch Technology, Dual Screens, Picto Chat, Have fun with sight, sound, and downloadable software - all in the newest version of the world's best-selling portable game system.