The Future of Cell Phones
Thursday 16 April 2009
Do you remember the old days when a cell phone was simply use to make calls? it wasn't that long ago was it. But, the technology has moved on such a quick pace over the past two years is just so hard to keep up to the major advancements that have been made in our communication needs.
A cell phone can now come with a camera, WiFi, GPS, music player, blogging software, TV output, games and so much more we could be here all day writing about it. It's amazing even with a simple thing like a camera you can take a photograph on one side of the world and send it to the other side of the world moments later. We have all seen video clips on the likes of YouTube and even news bulletins that have been taken with a mobile phone and uploaded almost moments after the event.
This is where we have come in 25 years in the next 25 years of the cell phone communications industry looks even brighter. At a fast pace that many of us live our lives would require information at your fingertips almost instantly and the cell phone is the ideal device just for this. Many countries already have TV on demand available on mobile phones this is an area as the network service providers rolled out faster speed networks will probably explode in the next few years.
The problem you have at the moment is to speed off the data transfer is quite slow on many networks could be assured in the future with the introduction of 3G and even 4G networks this will change very quickly.
When another area that I can see exploding in the next few years is cell phones with built-in projectors. We have already seen some demonstration models coming out of China and the display resolution and the fact that you can now show what's on your mobile phone projected onto a wall in a bigger format has obviously lots of potential for business users and for general consumer use. From a business point of view being able to present a presentation from your phone that has just been e-mailed to you has lots of advantages. From the consumer so it the idea of being able to project a movie that you have stored on your phone to entertain your children is something that I think many people will take advantage of.
One thing that we were promised with the rollout of 3G networks was more use of video calls. I really don't think this has even started to materialize on most networks and this is really down to the costs of the call which can be quite expensive at times. In order to really make this a standard service providers really need to reduce their costs and the cost to the consumer for this type of service.
Other crazy things that may happen in the future is that network service providers may give us free phones. I can see them financing these deals as the phone the giveaway will be sponsored and possibly rounded to a particular marketing campaign that they are running. The way they would justify making money on this is to brand the phone and also you agree to receive advertising via text messaging and video throughout the day a week this way they can recoup the costs of the handset and tried to push some marketing campaigns in your way.
Probably the biggest area of growth we will see in the near future is on smartphones. We can already see pricing in this area starting to reduced and the fact that touchscreen smartphones are becoming more affordable and also becoming a standard has got to be the future. Smartphones have more computing can capabilities so more and more applications are being produced all the time. We just have to take a quick look at the iPhone and how the Apple application store is producing so many downloads of applications and games and music this has got to be probably in the short term the biggest growth area for cell phone manufacturers.
A cell phone can now come with a camera, WiFi, GPS, music player, blogging software, TV output, games and so much more we could be here all day writing about it. It's amazing even with a simple thing like a camera you can take a photograph on one side of the world and send it to the other side of the world moments later. We have all seen video clips on the likes of YouTube and even news bulletins that have been taken with a mobile phone and uploaded almost moments after the event.
This is where we have come in 25 years in the next 25 years of the cell phone communications industry looks even brighter. At a fast pace that many of us live our lives would require information at your fingertips almost instantly and the cell phone is the ideal device just for this. Many countries already have TV on demand available on mobile phones this is an area as the network service providers rolled out faster speed networks will probably explode in the next few years.
The problem you have at the moment is to speed off the data transfer is quite slow on many networks could be assured in the future with the introduction of 3G and even 4G networks this will change very quickly.
When another area that I can see exploding in the next few years is cell phones with built-in projectors. We have already seen some demonstration models coming out of China and the display resolution and the fact that you can now show what's on your mobile phone projected onto a wall in a bigger format has obviously lots of potential for business users and for general consumer use. From a business point of view being able to present a presentation from your phone that has just been e-mailed to you has lots of advantages. From the consumer so it the idea of being able to project a movie that you have stored on your phone to entertain your children is something that I think many people will take advantage of.
One thing that we were promised with the rollout of 3G networks was more use of video calls. I really don't think this has even started to materialize on most networks and this is really down to the costs of the call which can be quite expensive at times. In order to really make this a standard service providers really need to reduce their costs and the cost to the consumer for this type of service.
Other crazy things that may happen in the future is that network service providers may give us free phones. I can see them financing these deals as the phone the giveaway will be sponsored and possibly rounded to a particular marketing campaign that they are running. The way they would justify making money on this is to brand the phone and also you agree to receive advertising via text messaging and video throughout the day a week this way they can recoup the costs of the handset and tried to push some marketing campaigns in your way.
Probably the biggest area of growth we will see in the near future is on smartphones. We can already see pricing in this area starting to reduced and the fact that touchscreen smartphones are becoming more affordable and also becoming a standard has got to be the future. Smartphones have more computing can capabilities so more and more applications are being produced all the time. We just have to take a quick look at the iPhone and how the Apple application store is producing so many downloads of applications and games and music this has got to be probably in the short term the biggest growth area for cell phone manufacturers.
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