
Step 1. Mobile WiMax. Sprint Nextel Corp. is going to launch its mobile Xohm WiMax network in several cities next spring "If you're looking to 2009 or 2010, WiMax will be somewhat revolutionary in terms of wireless broadband," said Brian Clark, a partner with M/C Venture Partners in Boston. "It starts to offer a DSL-level of [wireless] service." The company says Xohm's typical speeds will be in the 2Mbit/sec. to 4Mbit/sec. range. By 2011, WiMax claims its second-generation mobile service will offer speeds as high as 1Gbit/sec.
Step 2. multihop relay networks. These networks are believed to converge WiMax, LTE and other technologies, making it possible the wireless signals to be transmitted though a series of access points. "The network will find the best route and the best transmission mode," said Wen Tong, director of Nortel Networks' wireless technology laboratory. "I see initial deployment in three years."
Steps 3and 4. Femtocells and fixed-mobile convergence. These technologies will make it possible to have one phone and one number, enabling communication from anywhere in the world. “Femtocell looks a bit like a Wi-Fi router but performs the same function in the home or office as cellular base stations that sit in brick buildings at the base of cell towers. That is, they communicate directly with your cell phone and carry the signal to the larger network via a broadband line such as DSL or cable.” Last June, the T-Mobile USA launched the fixed-mobile convergence Hotspot@home program. It requires a mobile to have both Wi-Fi and regular network access. The software inside the mobile enables you to walk while talking on the cellular network and have the call switch to voice-over-IP on the Wi-Fi network.
Step 5. Tiny chips introduced. Companies, like Intel have focused on making small-sized, less power-hungry but at the same time powerful chips. This means the mobile devices will themselves become smaller, enabling the owner to sew them into his/her clothes, fix in the ear, or even implant in his/her tooth. However, another question is, whether do people really want to have mobiles so small or not.
Step 6. Wireless USB and ultrawideband. The short-range wireless technologies will make life easier and more interesting for the users. "If we get miniscule phones, they could use wireless USB or UWB to connect to a full-sized keyboard, or we could have tiny devices that [use these technologies to] project usable keyboards on desks or images on walls," Derek Kerton, principal of the Kerton Group, a telecommunications consulting firm said. "
Step 7. The speech recognition will become perfect. Although nowadays it is only 98-99% accurate, and even slower than typing the text yourself, the speech recognition will become almost perfect due to more powerful mobile processors. At the same time, the speech playback will become more natural sounding. Everything we are doing now on the keyboard, the owners of the future mobiles will be able to do by speech on their mobiles.
Step 8. E-paper. Several companies already achieved to produce e-paper which e-paper uses a mylar-like screen can reflect an image without any source of energy. It will soon replace laptop LCDs making them more light and comfortable. On the mobile of future, the e-paper can substitute keys and icons, making it possible to change them along with the changed applications, for example during switching from voice mode to media playback mode.
Step 9. centralized storage. With the mobile devices becoming smaller, the need for the remote servers to store the files will grow. "You don't need a lot of bulk [on a device] if you offload storage and other functions to a [centralized] server," Burrus said. Although up to date the internet storage is less then popular, this is going to be changed in future.
Step 10. The giant technology corporations, such as Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. are conducting intensive researches to converge all forms of communications, including landlines and the various types of wireless. It's a communication system a stew which will be comprised of many elements. Such new style of communication can create a “superpresence”, which will make easier to locate a person and communicate with him/her, however the person himself will define the people who will have authority to interrupt them in any circumstances.
Step 11. Mobile “credit cards”. The Japanese have already begun to use their mobiles as a means of buying things in the stores. All is needed, is to swap the mobile near the special point-of-sale terminal. The mobile vendors and the credit card companies have already met each other in a number of courts. However, the mobile companies claim their product has a totally different function form a credit card, namely: the mobiles can be swept against a poster in the street, to download more information and buy tickets.
Step 12. The phone security will also be improved. According to Burrows: “We'll have new levels of biometrics. If your phone is in your ear, everybody's inner ear canal is different and the phone can tell. Similarly, everybody's voice is different. Or maybe the phone will discern blood vessel patterns in my ear.” The fingerprint scanning is already common on laptops. So scanning of the owner’s ear should not seem to be an unapproachable achievement.
Step13. Augmented reality. The mobiles will provide additional effects to the real world we see around us. It will be able to serve as an ultra-red binoculars used by the military to see through the darkness. The mobiles will become your eyes, helping you to find your way on the dark staircase, for example.
However, we should bear in mind; these technologies still have a long way to become reality. All we have at the moment is a slow internet on a G3 phone. Although, this is just the beginning!
Reference:http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9043245&pageNumber=3
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