Computer World Net reported that the world's total of 1.5 billion mobile phones. You may have already begun to use mobile phones to the Internet, take pictures, send e-mail and play games. Very quickly, your current PC may be eliminated.
The development of mobile phones around the world
1900 hours 41 minutes 16 seconds, the figure is worked out by a person who named Adam Rappoport of Philadelphia high school students last year, Hanukkah (Jewish Day 1) received one as a gift of silver Verizon LG cell phones, he spend lot of time on it, he said, "I am familiar with the phone's touch-screen more than PC keyboard " He said: "I am a cell phone boy."
side of the globe in Tokyo, Satoshi Koiso is also staring at his cell phone. Koiso was studying third year of college, living in the capital of the world's fresh Wanyi Er - 20% of Tokyo were connected to the world's fastest mobile phone network, people are using mobile phones to watch television, read books and magazines, as well as play games. However, Koiso always uses phone to do some simple and meaningful things, for example, each morning on a small screen pops up an anti-tobacco message. This is an activity which designed to help students quit smoking part of the activities. "Teachers are also working to quit smoking while you are there, hesitant." One day an e-mail that said.
While in Frankfurt, Germany, Chrisoph Oswald was rushed to that his favorite bars, to search for his favorite woman: high, thin, and the frank. This 36-year-old software consultant is staring at his cell phone screen to complete the search. When reached the bar, Oswald's Nokia cell phone began to shake, and then an attractive blonde appeared in his color display. She said: "Hey, I'm Susan, come to see me!" Oswald scan a bit about the crowd, and found that girls on the screen. In fact, both of their cell phones are close to each other, the phone has been activated a service called "Symbian Dater".The service will compare two people's profiles and determine their suitability to each other. Very quickly, they both laughed, and then Chrisoph bought a glass of wine for Susan.
scientific and technological revolution occurred in two kinds of modes: surprisingly quickly and imperceptibly slow. The kind of fast, such as the iPod's popularity, or the proliferation of music-sharing Web site, and soon changed the cultural landscape. And Those that changes are slow and need to take several decades to change our way of life and work. In contrast, the popularity of mobile phones is relatively slow, but significant. In 1977, AT & T in Chicago established the world's first mobile network has only a few 2000 users, at that period ,the phone in terms of shape and weight is like a brick.
These handsets have been put into the museum collections, at present, our world every year sales of cell phones is more than 500 million, they look smooth, and color-bright. Sales of mobile phones have caused the compressed sales of television, radio and even personal computer. A total of 1.5 billion mobile phones around the world, more than double the number of PC. Mobile phone has been so deeply embedded in our lives, so if we do not have them, then it is difficult to imagine how we will do in future.
the dispute for Mobile phone can replace PC or not?
When our phone is becoming increasingly intelligent, smaller and faster, and they can allow users to connect to high-speed Internet, then an obvious problem: the mobile phone will become the next generation of computer? In fact, in a sense, it is already is. Most advanced mobile phones have processing power equivalent to the mid-nineties of the last century's PC, while the energy consumption is only one percent of the latter. Moreover, an increasing number of cell phones with computer features, such as sending e-mail, browsing the Web or even shooting pictures. Last year, shipment of
camera phones reached 84 million. However, whether the development of mobile phones will make the PC bleak and even to replace the PC is still controversy. PC's supporters said the phone's size is too small, too slow to connect to the network and thus can not effectively complete the current computer keyboard and expensive displays can accomplish those tasks. Supporters of cell phones responded to: wait and see, the upcoming innovations will lift the restrictions on mobile phones. Palm Pilot inventor and PlamOne's CTO Jeff Hawkins said: "One day, there are 2 billion to 3 billion people have mobile phones at the same time, and there is no PC. Handset will become our entire digital lifestyle."
PalmOne is the one of those trying to keep the cell phone has all functions of the computer. Hawkins The latest product has a smooth appearance, and only pocket-size Treo 600. Treo has a small size keyboard, a built-in digital camera and additional memory slot. Other equipment suppliers have also introduced their unique functionality of the phone. Nokia launched last fall, N-Gage, and plans to be able to play this month will launch a new version of video games cell phone in this month. Motorola's upcoming MPx will have a perfect "double rotation" design: When the phone is open in one direction, it looks like an ordinary phone, but when it is time to open along the other axis , it is an e-mail device, while the telephone keypad at this time will be extended into a small standard keyboard. There are also some smart phones being developed will come with digital cameras, GPS antennas, as well as to the local Wi-Fi hot spots (a kind of in the office, airports and coffee shops can often be seen in ultra-high-speed wireless network) interface.
At present, according to Gartner research, smart phones accounted for only 5% of the total mobile handset sales, but this figure doubling every year. In the United States, business people are the major customers
smart phone. Has 80 employees, a Baltimore law firm Gordon Feinblatt has recently started to release Treo 600 rather than the laptop to his own lawyers. It is a member of the Jeff Hackett said: "The smart phones greatest benefit relative to the computer is that it is always accompanied by you."
the favorable gifts of South Korea 1 / 2 children, Children on Children's Day is cell phone!
While in Asia, not those boring professionals drive the latest innovation of mobile phone market, but the Japanese so-called "Keitai-crazy kids". There are many teenagers sitting in a crowded Tokyo shopping malls, busy with each other to send messages, read e-mail magazine or playing "Dragon Quest" games. In Korea, young people are so fond of cell phones, so a recent survey of primary school students, half of the children said they most wanted in the Children's Day gift is a cell phone. In contrast, dogs received 22% of the vote, while the PC has only 10% of supporters. Many Asian handset manufacturers believe that, for these children is already 75-year-old TV will be the next one will be liked. In May, Samsung announced that it would launch a
television cell phones can watch more than 40 TV programs.
Mobile Observers say that in next few years, flash memory capacity of mobile phones will be more than 1G, so you can become a great album or a music player, and may supply their own storage device iPod (Apple's a digital music player electronic equipment) use. Over the years, the industry in discussion "location-based services", ie mobile phone anywhere in the world can detect its exact location, to provide driving directions services, showing the discount information on nearby shops, or dating services - like Frankfurt's Christoph enjoyed.
But not all experts believe that it will be the end of the development of mobile phones. Your cell phone one day will actually run most of the features of PC, such as word processing and web browsing? PalmOne's Hawkins thought it will be. The Palm Pilot and the Treo inventor in his office equipped with a desktop machine and a Sony VAIO notebook computer, but he often without them, as if they are just relics of history only. He predicted that in the next few decades, all the phones will become mobile phones, and all the networks are able to receive voice and Internet access at broadband speed signals. When the mobile operators to recover their investment in the new network after all phone charges will be reduced to only a few dollars. Hawkins predicted: "the equivalent of your own pocket to have a T1 line interface." He also said, the computer will not disappear, but they will have to retire next station, because people prefer a more portable, and can be opened immediately for using and need not to activate the machine.
PC defender of violations responded to this belief. They pointed out that laptops can offer another way to mobile computing. Particularly over the last few years, with tens of thousands around the world, Wi-Fi networking, this trend is more pronounced. To the end of this year, notebook shipments in nearly half equipped with Wi-Fi, making their owners can set up a temporary office in a coffee shop or a park. Moreover, there is a simple problem: that is, the size of mobile phones will become smaller and smaller, but the size of the volume of people has not changed. Intel's executive vice president Sean Maleny, said: "There are billions of people will not stare at the small screen with a way to back replace them for the screen, keyboard, cell phone experience." Intel the same time, will put a large number of investment in Wi-Fi and mobile phone technology.
However, the
cell phone innovators are working to resolve this difficult problem. Scientists have carried out decades of research in the speech recognition, the recent introduction of this technology into PDA, allowing users through a simple voice commands to control these devices. Although the phone is still a lack of sufficient capacity to accomplish this functionality, but Moore's Law will help it to do so soon. There are some people are working to improve the keyboard. Canesta is a has been a five-year-old company in San Jose, California that is developing a called "projection keyboard" products - mobile phones, laser equipment, will project an ordinary keyboard layout onto a large screen, and then use the camera of cell phones to capture the user’s finger movements.
In any case, cell phones will not follow the fastest path to achieve their bright future. Since there is no single company can fully control such devices, the mobile phone industry where innovation is often full of twists and turns and mistakes. Sprint and AT & T that is responsible for telephone operators to sell phones to users and provide billing and operation of telephone networks , Hua Fei; Sony, Nokia and Samsung devices such as phone manufacturers are only responsible for the design, while outsourcing the actual production to Chinese factories. Another challenge is, not the same as the Internet, mobile phone does not exist open, and the only agreement. This means that software developed as a mobile phone does not run on other mobile phones. Non-commercial programming on the Internet has led to the rapid evolution, but in the cell phone world, it does not apply.
However, if you can overcome these commercial barriers, but only by the constraints of imagination and technical feasibility, then what will happen then? Frog Design is a 34-year-old company, it has helped Motorola, Nextel had designed many types of mobile phone. Now, it tried to answer this question. Four professional technical design staff spent a month at the time, formulated a "petfrog" specifications. petfrog is a smooth, attractive phone, it is touch-screen can display, including keyboard, mouse, or game console to any interactive interface. In addition, its high-resolution video screen can provide video dialogue and surfing online. It also has a thin-style, pluggable storage devices, allowing to transfer a phone into an MP3 player or a digital camera.
