Why the Future in Your Hands

Sales of smartphones are expected to exceed those of laptop computers in the next 12 to 18 months, as mobile will complete the transition from voice communications, multimedia computer devices.

“Convergence has been the Holy Grail for manufacturers of mobile phones, software and hardware partners, as well as consumers, for more than a decade.

And the first time rhetoric from companies like Nokia, Samsung and Motorola, had bragged of a multimedia computer in your pocket, no longer seems quite absurd.

“Convergent devices are always with you and always linked,” said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia Chief Executive last week in the mobile world congress in Barcelona.

Last year, Nokia sold almost 200 meters, camera phones and music phones 146m, making it the largest seller of digital cameras and MP3 players.

In the coming year the company plans to sell 35 million GPS-messages of cellular phones and personal navigation will be the last function be assigned to the telephone.

Form and function

Nigel Clifford, executive director of Symbian, said: “All single-use devices – MP3-player, digital camera, GPS – are collapsing on the phone.”

“We are going for the point at which it is calling a number of other things,” he said.

Symbian OS is at 188 million mobile phones last year, and the third came with GPS.

“We see the development of mobile phones in multi-functional devices that currently support consumer electronics, multimedia entertainment and professional mobile business applications, all the matches,” said Luis Pineda, cell phone chip company Qualcomm.

Convergence determined by a combination of software, services and equipment.

The first mobile chip plant will operate at 1GHz on the market later this year, seven years after the first desktop chips erupted gigahertz barrier.

Qualcomm in Snap Dragon 1 GHz chipset in the number of phones, including Samsung and HTC

“This is the first in the industry wireless chipset,” said Mr. Pineda.

Just as gross horsepower Snap Dragon also has a processor on implementation, as well as their ability, with 12 megapixel digital photos and up to 720p high-definition video images.

Clifford D. Symbian said that the mobile phone industry to provide multi-function devices, which do not compromise.

He said: “If we look at what the collapse of these devices and hopes of people, their experience in the individual devices and specializes in rising expectations.”

Chip Shop

More than 90% of global consumption of mobile phones powered by technology developed by British company hand. Design chip architecture, the license for semiconductor manufacturers such as Broadcom and Qualcomm.

Hand, said Ian Drew future mobile phones are becoming more demanding computing power.

But the creation of chips with greater processing, not just, he said.

“If you look at a typical phone-first, we must do, it will be in mid-watt envelope.

“We need to make in your pocket. This is not a fan. Nado working days instead of hours.”

He adds: “When you start, multimedia experience – for example, 3D graphics, video and games – There are two ways to do it: You can always more and more processors, or if you have multi-core, where you can shut down the processor if you do not need” .

Hand is a demonstration of the chip architecture, coretex called A9, that offer or four kernels on a single chip processors.

Symbian has been cooperating with their hands for future use of several major mobile phones.

“You can huge amounts of processing, if necessary. But if you do not void cores, which are not needed,” said Clifford.

Symmetric multiprocessing encourage the next generation of applications to the phone, he added.

“Silicon providers are looking very seriously integrate SMP”.

Mr. Clifford added: “The Future of Internet and computer applications, not at home or in the office, but phone.”

He said that gambling will be after the collapse of the phones.

“This is one of the following devices, only a sense of pressure, mobile,” he said.

Accelerating 3D graphics is the norm for many of today’s mobile phones and specialists such as Nvidia have joined the market.

Mr. Clifford said today the most powerful mobile phones as the Nokia N96 and NTTDoCoMo 905 – Series same power as a laptop 2000.

APX 2500 Nvidia chip has sufficient 3D accelerators for processing Quake 3, PC game of 1999, in the mobile phone.

Phone owners are beginning to expect the same Internet they have in their PC on their mobile phones.

Internet-2, 0 -, social networking and video-sharing is a real driver PS “, said Drew hand of the Lord.

He added: “But you should be able to receive data in the next generation of mobile phones require high-performance radio stations – is a high-speed data transmission, so this is content for streaming for you.”

Symbian is working on technology called highway to the phones ability to seamlessly between wireless networks such as Wi-Fi and cellular networks such as 3G and 4G.

“We do not want people to feel the mobile Internet is the second-class experience.”

adapted from http://news.bbc.co.uk/