What is next with smart phones?

--------- #1424 - How Are Smart Phones Going to Get Smarter?

- Attachments : cell phone pile.

- Walky-Talkies used during the war were the first mobile phones. These phones were radios that talked to each other. 1973 was the first phone that talked to an antenna that was a relay station. The coverage of the antenna becomes a cell and the cells are connected to cover the area. The Motorola Dyna TAC was the first cell phone and it weighted 2 pounds.

- Today smart phones weigh a few ounces and will soon have the power of a supercomputer by using the Internet Cloud. The NVIDA TEGRA2 is an integrated microcircuit , a single chip, in a smart phone that is ½ inch square. Not only is the chip a phone, a two way radio with a microprocessor, a graphics processor for 3D and HD videos, a MP3 music, a modem, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS and a digital camera. All this in ½ inch by ½ inch the thickness of a dime.

- Smart phones can make 1 billion calculations per second but that uses up a lot of battery life. Why not do these calculations on the internet and save battery life? In the internet, “ Cloud”, more powerful computers could make calculations faster and the results relayed back to the smart phone. We would have hand-held supercomputers that could do very complicated tasks, like face recognition. This power could be used to improve security and limit ID theft. Your phone could recognize pictures and tell you where you were with GPS. ( See Review #1420 putting supercomputers in the hands of engineers).

- The 4G network will provide up to 1 gigabyte per second calculation speeds, 1,000 times faster than today. In 2011 -Samsung introduced an Organic Diode Flexible Display that rolls up into a small phone. The large ultra thin display can be pulled out flat to allow viewing high-definition movies and photos streamed off the internet.

- Super batteries will come from super capacitors. Graphite is pencil lead. The carbon comes off in layers to make the pencil able to write black lines on paper. Graphene is the same carbon material except nanotechnology produces it so thin one layer is only one atom in thickness. Now this graphene can be folded up in between two metal electrode plates to produce a super capacitor. The enormous surface area allows the super capacitor to hold a very large charge that can act as a battery. These super capacitors can be recharged in seconds and then last as batteries for hours.

- Another technology comes from Toshiba that uses a fuel cell powered by methanol. This fuel cell generates electricity to recharge the cell phone.

- Speech recognition with supercomputer power can convert cell phones into R2-D2 personal assistants, robots using your arms and legs for mobility. Kinda makes you humble, huh?

- 1973 the first cell phone was introduced, the Motorola Dyna TAC

- 1981 Nordic NMT launched the first mobile network.

- 1991 digital GSM replaced this analog network

- 1992 the first SMS , Short Message Service, was launched.

- 1993 Apple Newton launched the Personal Digital Assistant, PDA, handheld computer.

- 1996 Motorola’s Star TAC was the firs clam shell cell phone with a pull-up antenna.

- 2000 Nokia 3210 had eh first internal antenna and T9 dictionary. Ericsson R380 had the first smart pone with touch screen display.

- 2001 The 3G network was launched in Japan

- 2002 1,000,000,000 people own cell phones.

- 2003 3G network was launched in Europe.

- 2007 Nokia N95 smart phone with GPS and 5-mega pixel camera. Apple’s iPhone with 3.5 inch color touch-screen without keys.

- 2008 Google’s Android operating system with speech recognition search operation.

- 2010 LTE technology gives advanced speed to the 3G network.

- 2011 Apple’s iPhone 4S with a voice activated search engine

- 2012 Apple introduces it newest version of the iPad.

- 2012 What’s next? An announcement will be made shortly, stay tuned.

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