The Future of Smartphones

The future of smartphones

Nowadays, smartphones has rapidly evolved in sophistication. However, what will smartphone look like in a year or two years or even more than ten years? How we define the smartphones in the future? Is there another kind of phones whose function is stronger or "smarter" than the ordinary ones?

A smartphone is a high-end mobile phone that combines the functions of a personal digital assistant (PDA) and a mobile phone (according to WIKI)[1] .In other words, a smartphone can let you not only do phone call, but also do what was available only via computer in the past, such as sending and receiving e-mail. Concerned about the current situation, the technology of smartphones developing, there is an question "can we imagine what will change in the 10 years about it?" rushing into my mind. Thus, this essay will explore three obvious parts: mobile operating systems, compatibility, modeling.

Although smartphones run mobile operating system, such as iOS, Symbian, Android, WindowsMobile and RIM's BlackBerry OS [1], there are still a great deal of systems being came up as the technology develop. Nevertheless, it will be a disaster if these parallel systems develop at the same time with high rate, because these programs have to make some change to adapt every system and the systems cannot connect to others. So we can except that only few systems can survive. According to the competition at present, five systems seem to stand out. Maybe the best is Microsoft's WindowsMobile. Microsoft's best friend is Qualcomm and smartphones with a Qualcomm can support the larger RAM chips now. Qualcomm can keep up with Microsoft's memory hunger, we can be much more satisfied[2]. The second should be Mac OS X. compared with its drawback that Mac cannot allow any other mobile phone to set up, Apple has already improved its mobile hardware and this development brings a great number of customers. The third should be Android. Android will spread rapidly in the years ahead because Google has this capability to support the development of technology. Google Android will eventually offer a vast library of free mashup applications and services[2]. The next one is Symbian OS which rules the whole market of 2G. Symbian OS is currently undergoing significant evolution which can help it to face the competition in the future operating system for mass market cell phones. The last one