Future’s Smartphones
The mobile devices of end of 2011 might look physically smartphones today, but will be much more than your team. Call a PC, but this time it will ser”personal”de truth, as it almost never leave you.
The processing power of smart phones is now about on par with the PC 2007, powerful smartphones, for sure, but in a couple of years can have enough computing power to allow applications much more sophisticated than really taking advantage of the portability of the device.
Just as an idea: imagine a device with an 8-inch or 20 – inch, fold-out screen, a large virtual keyboard for easy text entry, many sensors to detect their surroundings, and the software smart enough to anticipate their needs and Sharp enough to respond to the commands of conversation.
Open the device, the point on the street and ask you to show you what the place looked 200 years ago and offers a photo or video. Ask where to eat lunch and highlights a restaurant that suits your tastes. If you are a hotly debated issue of food choice with a friend when someone tries to call marginal importance, the phone knows better than to interrupt.
The blue sky, made the prediction comes with a stern warning: forecasts with a horizon of two years are particularly charged, technologists, he said, because those who make predictions have often been too optimistic about emerging designs and at the same time, blind to some of the reasons why the current generation of technologies is seen as it does. But why spoil things. This is what you see in the next device update, two years after the line.
Equipment research and development in technology incubators such as SRI International, Palo Alto Research Center in California and the Media Lab of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as designers and technologists in companies such as Nokia, Intel and others, said the smart phones of the future will look very differently than they do today.
But Bo Begole, a principal scientist at PARC, formerly Xerox PARC, said the screens, at least, would be fundamentally different.
”The development of hardware, I feel more confident about,”he said,”is shown folding.”Mr Begole said the current availability of the Readius (Readius.com), an e-book reader with an expandable screen, suggested that smart phone manufacturers could incorporate something similar on their handsets in two years.
Researchers also are experimenting with virtual keyboards, he said, to overcome the size limitations based phone keyboards. With these, users move their fingers on an imaginary keyboard and sensors to deduce keystrokes. (See senseboard.
com for an example. ) But if larger sample, writing with touch screen can work well, said Norman Winarsky, vice president of SRI International, another technology incubator based in Palo Alto. Mr.
SRI has Winarsky said electroactive polymer creado”un vibrating under glass, and gives the sense fingers touching the individual keys.”That technology, he said, was in the 24 months to reach the market.
Henry Tirri, Nokia Vice President in charge of global research company, said that cell phones of the not-so-distant future supersensors contain”,”, as camera lenses of higher quality will distant details much more clearly than the naked eye.
So if you’re on the street and facing the top of the Empire State Building with his smartphone, Mr.
Tirri, he said, would derive the visual elements that interests you to find images close to the site.
This type de”realidad aumentada”enfoque could also allow users to view their environment as they may have appeared in another era.
Something along these lines, PARC and SRI International have also created software that, using GPS
sensors and data on past user behavior or the current schedule, you can suggest restaurants, among other things. PARC’s software, called Magitti, is in its testing phase in Japan and could reach the U.S. market next spring.
Software SRI International, called Siri, is more ambitious, as it allows users to speak natural language applications in the device como”Encuentra a place for dinner tonight with Karen and put it on our calendars”-and will complete the task independently and report when done.
And now a word realitycheck department. With the current batteries and processor chips, running multiple applications such as these make the device hot enough to give marshmallows near her, and sap the battery at record speed. This is a big reason why Andrew Lippman, the co-director of MIT’s Media Lab, believes that smart phones in the near future,”will not be much smarter than they are today.”But Justin Rattner, Intel chief technology officer, says there is reason for hope. Next year the company will begin marketing its Moorestown chips that use 50 times less power than current smart phones on standby.
Other improvements in the efficient allocation of energy, he said, would reach the smartphone chips in the next 18 to 24 months.
In another move to save energy, applications could reach users in the vicinity of information, instead of pushing the telephone circuits to their limits grabbing GPS data and web analytics. Mr. Lippman, MIT, and Mr. Winarsky of SRI said they could not imagine a not too distant from the generation of smart phones increased communication with other nearby via Bluetooth and WiFi.
Smartphone Applications could, for example, recognize when a physician is in the building, and alert you if someone else nearby has set an emergency number.