The future of mobile phones 0 comments

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The cover article of the June 6 edition of Forbes Global reads:
"Lawrence Morrisroe, 27, IS obsessed with his new toy. It has a digital camera, video playback, Bluetooth wireless capability, a memory stick and a 3-inch screen."

It is also clear that these are not going to be the last new features being added to the already vast array of inbuilt mobile phone applications described above. Key phone manufacturers like Nokia and Samsung are working on integrating MP3 player functions into mobile phones. Startup firms are writing games for the mobile phones, a niche area given the limited screen size of the LCD screen. The provision of wireless data is just a boom waiting to happen; widespread adoption of 3G and wireless broadband might provide the spark.

With such a vast pipeline of plans for the future of the mobile phone questions must abound about the capabilities of the mobile phone platform to fulfil that promise. In particular, the need for prolonged power and the need to store and handle the projected copious streams of data must be two of the major issues. The big winners from the mobile phone revolution will be companies who emerge to take leads in providing the optimal solutions to these two problems. In particular, for the storage issue, it will be a tussle between two sectors: the solid state flash media sector and the hard disk drive sector. The former has the advantage of smaller size and better robustness, the latter the advantage of greater storage. Trends in development suggest that the latter is gaining the upper hand due to improvements in miniaturization and arguably, a legacy from observing the success of the HDD-based portable MP3 players.

References:
(1) Forbes Global June 6: Coming Soon to a Tiny Screen Near You