Mobile Phones & Future
Looking at the current trend of mobile phone convergence.. I foresee in the near years that a
1. Entry Level Mobile phone having
– Color Display (upto 64K)
– Polyphony Ringtones
– FM Radio
– SMS/MMS/GPRS Connectivity
– VGA Camera
– 5 MB internal memory
– Proprietory OS
– Bluetooth (optional)
2. Mid Range Mobile Phones having
– Color Display (64K and above)
– Polyphony, MP3 Ringtines
– Stereo FM Radio
– SMS/MMS/GRPS/EDGE
– Megapixel Camera (2 MP atleast)
– Internal Memory
– Expandable Memory (Mini SD, Micro Memory Stick)
– Mp3, 3GP Video players
– Proprietory OS
– Bluetooth+PC connectivity
3. High End Mobile Phones having
– Color Display (True Color)
– Polyphony and MP3 ringtones
– Stereo FM Radio
– SMS / MMS/GRPS / EDGE / WiFi / GPS
– Megapixel Camera with autofocus and Optical zoom (3MP atleast, with Video )
– Large Internal memory
– Expandable Memory
– Host of Software suite running on Smart OS like Symbian or Linux or Windows Mobile
– Bluetooth+USB+TV connectivity
– Keypad integrated, along with option Handwriting recognition
Sooner or later, there will be only a thin gap between the Smart business phone and a Laptop. Smartphone missing a fullscale OS+Hardware, and Laptop missing a fullscale phone.