According to concept of Nick Jones, vice president and analyst at the firm, mobile technologies which are predicted to put a good impact on the mobile industry over the course of the next two years will have to be addressed before hand only by short term strategies.
These technologies includes
Using Bluetooth 3.0
The Bluetooth 3.0 specification will be coming this year and devices will start to hit the shelves by 2010. At this point, its expected that the 3.0 blue tooth specification will include faster speeds, reportedly transferring files at 480 megabits per second in close proximity and 100 megabits per second at 10 meters. It will also feature an ultra low power mode that will enable new peripherals, sensors, and applications, such as health monitoring. The new technology will be left backwards compatible, allowing old devices to communicate with new ones.
Mobile User Interfaces and Mobile Widgets
Mobile user interfaces and mobile web/widgets were listed separately as they all point to how mobile computing is rapidly becoming a new platform for everything from consumer mobile apps to B2E (business to employee) and B2C (business to customer). Modern smart phones like the phone, Android, Blackberry, the upcoming Pre, and others deliver better interfaces for browsing the web, thus making it accessible to more people. Widget kind of applications, including those that replicate thin client technology, will become more common especially in B2C mobile strategies. Yet the mobile web still has to face challenges ahead.
Near Field Communication (NFC)
NFC is a technology which provides a way for consumers to use their mobile phones for making payments, among other things. It's something important that has taken off in many countries worldwide, but certainly not all, and definitely not in the United States. Unfortunately, it is predicted that the move towards mobile payment systems will still not occur this year or the next in growing markets like the U.S. and Western Europe. Instead, NFC is more likely to take off place in emerging markets. Other uses of the technology, includes ability to transfer photos from phone to digital photo frames.
Display Technologies
New mobile display technologies such as active pixel displays, passive displays and Pico projectors will have an impact in coming years. Pico projectors that are the tiny portable projectors which has being introduced at this year's CES will enable new mobile use cases. Instant type presentations in informal settings could become more common when there isn't a large, cumbersome equipment to set up for. Thus these different types of display technologies introduced in 2009 and 2010 will become important differentiators between devices and will impact user selection criterion.
According to concept of Nick Jones, vice president and analyst at the firm, mobile technologies which are predicted to put a good impact on the mobile industry over the course of the next two years will have to be addressed before hand only by short term strategies.
These technologies includes
Using Bluetooth 3.0
The Bluetooth 3.0 specification will be coming this year and devices will start to hit the shelves by 2010. At this point, its expected that the 3.0 blue tooth specification will include faster speeds, reportedly transferring files at 480 megabits per second in close proximity and 100 megabits per second at 10 meters. It will also feature an ultra low power mode that will enable new peripherals, sensors, and applications, such as health monitoring. The new technology will be left backwards compatible, allowing old devices to communicate with new ones.
Mobile User Interfaces and Mobile Widgets
Mobile user interfaces and mobile web/widgets were listed separately as they all point to how mobile computing is rapidly becoming a new platform for everything from consumer mobile apps to B2E (business to employee) and B2C (business to customer). Modern smart phones like the phone, Android, Blackberry, the upcoming Pre, and others deliver better interfaces for browsing the web, thus making it accessible to more people. Widget kind of applications, including those that replicate thin client technology, will become more common especially in B2C mobile strategies. Yet the mobile web still has to face challenges ahead.
Near Field Communication (NFC)
NFC is a technology which provides a way for consumers to use their mobile phones for making payments, among other things. It's something important that has taken off in many countries worldwide, but certainly not all, and definitely not in the United States. Unfortunately, it is predicted that the move towards mobile payment systems will still not occur this year or the next in growing markets like the U.S. and Western Europe. Instead, NFC is more likely to take off place in emerging markets. Other uses of the technology, includes ability to transfer photos from phone to digital photo frames.
Display Technologies
New mobile display technologies such as active pixel displays, passive displays and Pico projectors will have an impact in coming years. Pico projectors that are the tiny portable projectors which has being introduced at this year's CES will enable new mobile use cases. Instant type presentations in informal settings could become more common when there isn't a large, cumbersome equipment to set up for. Thus these different types of display technologies introduced in 2009 and 2010 will become important differentiators between devices and will impact user selection criterion.
