The rise of the mobile computer..

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:39:40 +0200

Mobile phones used to be very simple devices, which would allow you to make a telephone call from one person to another. In recent years technological improvements have increased the power of mobile phones enabling them to do things they were not initially intended to perform. It is now possible to connect to the web in much the same way as you would with an ordinary desktop computer, and mobile phones have started to integrate a range of radio chipsets such as Bluetooth, GPS, and Wi-Fi allowing it to perform more functions.

In the same way that desktop computers have increased in performance, so will mobile phones allowing them to carry out greater tasks. The mobile phone is evolving into a mobile device, opening up a new world of personalised computing.

Recent mobile phones have included a GPS chip, allowing the precise location of the mobile phone to be found anywhere in the world. GPS usage is expected to increase in the future as it becomes a standard feature in mobile phones. A leading mobile phone manufacturer; Nokia, expects 50 percent of their mobile phones to include GPS by 2010. Another report by a market research firm; ABI Research, expects 550 million GPS-enabled phones to be produced by 2012.

The recent launch of the new iPhone 3G has shown just what is possible out of mobile technology, part of me wonders how long it will be before the 'phone' part of the device will only be a small feature compared to the rich services that will be offered by the mobile device.

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The rise of the mobile computer..