Long before most of us will even begin to think of future mobile technologies analysts have already started predicting the upcoming technologies. Gartner, a reputed analyst firm has produced a report recently, highlighting some future mobile technologies they expect to be seen in the next few decades. These technologies include:
Bluetooth 3.0
Specifications for Bluetooth 3.0 are expected this year and it is expected that Mobile phone manufacturers will start deploying the technology in their mobile phones, without wasting a moment. Bluetooth 3.0 is expected to utilize fibre-optics, giving transferring rates of up to 480 Mbps from a near distance and 100Mbps from up to 10 meters. With an additional benefit of low-power usage, it is anticipated that a large variety of mobile phones and even electronics such as health monitoring, sensors, etc will also be using the technology.
WLAN & Mobile phones
Many Laptop and Netbook manufacturers have employed Wireless technologies in their devices, namely WiFi, Bluetooth,etc, While Mobile devices come with these technologies the limitations in them have made their use somewhat hindered. The limitations are not many but these effect the usability of the technology, for instance WiFi and Bluetooth in a Mobile phone do not have the capability for achieving high speeds and their use also has potential security risks. These problems are going to be dealt with this year in order to provide more secure and faster Wireless communications through Bluetooth and WiFi.
Mobile Phone Displays
The end user is only concerned about his easy interaction with the device. No matter how solid, reliable and advanced technology is used in a Mobile phone, its user most probably would only care about how the things are shown in the display. Although, the modern mobile phones come with high-quality displays, the upcoming display technologies will bring many improvements. Moreover, emerging technologies such as pico projectors, active pixel displays, and passive displays will have a great impact on the use of Mobile phones. It is expected that upcoming technologies in 2009 will impact the users greatly on how they will choose mobile phones.
Location Awareness
Mobile social networking is increasingly becoming popular. If you have used mobile social networking, you might have wanted to know the location of the person you’ve been talking to or you may want to find the location of a person who you want to phone. Of course, there are some social networks like Loop and Brightkite that let you reveal your location. Take an example of iPhone’s IM client Palringo, which is still at the early stage of getting location services to be fed in. In the near future, this technology is expected to be seen in many more mobile phones and will be able to reveal more exact location information. While this will be good thing to have but it also raises questions about privacy. For example you might not want any of your online friends to know your location. These are some of the things that are going to be looked into in the upcoming mobile technologies.
