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Mobile Devices and Apps | Mobile O.S's => Smartphones | Wearables | Concepts | etc. => Topic started by: javajolt on February 28, 2010, 04:20:08 AM
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Mobile phones are increasingly becoming the main communication tool for private and business use and 2010 promises to offer users a number of innovations. Smart phones are better placed than the standard mobile phone to deal with these advances because of their large display screens and speedy internet connections.
There are already phones on the market using 1 gigahertz chips, says Andy Rubin, who works on Google's Android platform.
"Soon we'll have mobile phones with 2Ghz processors, which is more than in a lot of laptops," he predicts, pointing out that a PC is no longer necessary to access emails, to quickly check the net or to update your Facebook page.
According to BITKOM - Germany's Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media - the number of smart phones in Germany is set to increase this year by 47 per cent to 8.2 million devices.
Mobile phone traffic in Germany has exploded with wireless data transfer increasing nearly fourfold in 2009 to 40 million gigabytes.
Not surprisingly, more and more manufacturers want a slice of this pie. Microsoft hopes to win its share through its new mobile phone system Windows Phone 7.
The new software for smart phones was presented at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and is much more user-friendly than the older Windows Mobile 6.5. The objective is to simplify the organizing of data that is available to the user on their mobile phone or on the internet.
Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer announced in Barcelona a whole series of new Windows phones which should be coming on the market in the second half of 2010.
One of the challengers to Microsoft is Google, with its Android platform.
A year or so ago, the G1 and a phone by HTC were the only Android phones on sale
Read more: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/311695,mobile-phone-trends-for-2010-faster-cheaper-and-more-functions.html#ixzz0gnTYBZVf (http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/311695,mobile-phone-trends-for-2010-faster-cheaper-and-more-functions.html#ixzz0gnTYBZVf)