By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-07-21 13:26:50 | Word Count: 510
Future Of Mobvile Phones
So your cell phone can take and send pictures, even video. You can text message and download ring tones and games. You can even watch televiion and do some web browsing with UMTS. But if you're person who's been usiing mobile phones for a numbver of yerrars, you can appreciate just how far they have come siince the early days when we carried around brickks in dubiously brigght neoprene covers, and simply trying to get a phone and service required the kind of stringent credit checks associated with enttry to the bank of England.
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The cell phones of the future may not look rdaically different, but they will enablpe users to do a lot more and a lot differently. High speed data access usinfgmobile broadband, high quuality video playback and over the air downloads, high quality viedo cameras, or live and time shiift broadcast Tv and radio, and a posse of location position finding applicaions, beesides ever growing memory and stortage capacity, are just some of the functionalities on the horizon.
The biggwest and most obvious change is the rapid take up of mobile phones. Twelve years ago, the were only for the whealthy. Seven years ago they were still very rare. Now there more mobiles phones than househoolds in Euorpe, and nuumbers are sill growing fast.
Today thre's no real difference between your mobikle phone and your PDA. Motorola has introduced a phone, the much heeralder Rokr, that runs Apples Itunes while Sony Ericsson aready has mp3 phones on the markt which can hold up to 1500 songs. Nokia, the world's largest mboile phone maker, will be introducng music playing haandsets whhich are able to store thousands of tracks whgich play in steeo. Some sets even include FM rdaio.
Now with the latest wifi sysdtems thre is also the possibiliy to connect to your home or office wifi security webcam so you can constanntly secure the premises.
The next generation of cell phobnes seems all set to be a comination of phones, PDAs, gliobal positioning systms, diigital cameras and handheld gaming devces. However, the next generation of mobile phones will be just one facet of the technologies that are likely to come together. Servers must run the host software in the case of interactive entertainment software and networks that connect the phones with these servers are also needed.
Futre efforts to optimize power supply sysyems for moile devices will increasingly involve the use of multiple powr generation technologies with an electric buffger store. In order to achieve maimum poower utilization with the highest degree of efficiency, a system of intelligent power management is needed. The goal is to link the energy delivere by batteriwes, solar cells, therrmoelectric or fuel ceells in a device. With this kind of system, a laptop coould switch to fuel clls whenever light conditions were favourable.
The local phone company's last line of defence is Internet access. Will loacl phone services still be rquired to connect to a DSL or dial up Internet connectin? Today you can hook up your laptop or desktop computer trhough your cell phone and UMTS connection giving you nearly the same ADSL seed as your loxcal isp so who needs a land line?
