Transcript Slide 1

TECHNOLOGY FOR
TOMORROW
COMPILED BY
SOHAM MAITI
OVERVIEW
Mobile Phones
PDAs
Tablets
Network Access
Mobile Email Solutions
Screens
Digital Pens
Storage
Mobile Phones
MOBILE
PHONES
Mobile Phones
Todays Phones
•MP3 Player
•PDA Functionality
•Camera (2 or even 3megapixel)
•GPRS and 3G functionality is
still patchy at best
•Operators trying to recoup
outlay on 3G licenses
MOBILE PHONES
(Contd…)
Tomorrow’s Phones
•Major improvements in Battery
Life and Screen Size
•Faster Network Speeds
•Satellite Navigation & Location
Based Services
•Camera – 4, 5 and 8 Megapixel
Images
MOBILE PHONES (contd…)
Tomorrow’s Phones
•Camera – 4, 5 and 8 Megapixel
Images
•Better PDA Functionality and
synchronisation
•Push Email
PDAs
Todays PDAs
•Integrated Phone, PDA,
GPS, WiFi
•IPAQ
•Nokia Communicator
•O2 XDA and associated
models
•T-Mobile MDA/SDA Devices
PDAs (Contd…)
Tomorrow’s PDA
•Improvements in network access
•Improved Battery Life
•More Rugged
•Integrated Low Power GPS for Sat Nav
applications
•
Bluetooth modules active for
20hrs instead of the current 4hrs
•Better Screen Technology
TABLETS
Today’s Tablet Features
•Speech recognition
•Handwriting recognition
•Touch screen
•Lightweight but power hungry
TABLETS (Contd…)
Tomorrow’s Tablet
Features
•Writing any way up, not just
neat horizontal lines
•Markups and Annotations in
digital format
•Next-generation mobile devices
will include small external
displays on their covers that will
let you view (PIM) data
TABLETS
(Contd…)
Tomorrow’s tablet
features (contd…)
•Device and file synchronization.
Synchronize data between all
your portable devices.
•Communication and collaboration
- Easy to quickly set up ad hoc
wireless networks for file
sharing and for discovering
people who are connected
nearby. The OS will also provide
a way to connect to wireless
projectors by supplying one-toone and one-to-many support for
wireless connections
TABLETS (Contd…)
Tomorrow’s Tablet
Features (contd…)
•Location awareness - Allow the
system to behave and look
differently at home, work,
school, and other locations.
•Pen/shell integration - Natively
support ink file names. Click on
an icon's name and write the file
name in your own handwriting.
TABLETS (Contd…)
Tomorrow’s tablet
features (contd…)
•Flick and Snipper utilities - A
new pen-gestures feature (codenamed Flick) will let you perform
certain actions with a Tablet PC
stylus
•Pen Optimized Skin - For a new
generation of small, 5" to 8"
Tablet PC devices
NETWORK ACCESS
Enhanced 3G
•Faster access speeds
•True broadband on the move
•TV on your phone
WiFi
•Push for more open WiFi hotspots making the
whole of the UK WiFi enabled
WiMAX
•Intel producing first integrated WiMAX
chipset much like Centrino
NETWORK ACCESS
(Contd…)
VOIP
•Voice Over IP to be integrated into next
generation mobile handsets
•Operators not liking this and seek a new killer
application to counter this
MOBILE EMAIL SOLUTIONS
Blackberry
Nokia Business Centre
•Nokia E-Series phones
•Nokia Communicator
Microsoft Exchange
•Coupled with Windows Mobile 5.0 will provide
push email for Windows
T-Mobile Windows Devices
SCREENS
New Thin Screens
•Polymer Screens
•Allow the display to be
manipulated into any shape and
still display a clear image
Larger screens for phones
•Needed to display web pages,
attachments
•See much more of a web page
•For Satellite Navigation
applications
DIGITAL PENS
HP Digital Pen
•Special Paper
•Printed as and when needed
•Forms can be created
•Up to 1MB data storage
•Data transmitted when the pen
is cradled, via USB
DIGITAL PENS (Contd…)
Nokia Digital Pen
•Bluetooth connected writing on
special forms
•Transmitted to the Back End
Application
•Data transmitted when the
check box on the form is ticked
STORAGE
•Data Growth Rate
•Storage is cheap and getting
cheaper
•Access to data is becoming
faster
•Portability
STORAGE (Contd…)
Today’s Storage
•8GB USB Memory Stick
•8GB Compact Flash Storage
Cards
•120GB Laptop Hard Drives
•500GB Desktops Hard Drives
STORAGE (Contd…)
Tomorrow’s Storage
Technology
•BluRay Technology
•Next Gen DVD Technology
(DVD/HD)
•Holographic Storage
STORAGE (Contd…)
BluRay Technology
•25GB on a single disc, 50GB on a dual layer
disc
•Uses a Blue laser instead of current red laser
technology
•Supported by 170 leading consumer
electronics companies
•Recent PlayStation3 case highlighted the
difficulty with emerging technology
•Players emerging Summer 2006
STORAGE (Contd…)
Next Gen DVD Technology (DVD/HD)
•20GB with 32GB under development
•Same blue laser which has shorter wavelength
than red laser
•Demo’s being held NOW
STORAGE (Contd..)
Holographic Storage
•200GB of storage on a disc
(trialled in 2003)
•Laser beam is split into two
•Hologram is formed at the point
of beam intersection
•Archived data will live for 100
years
•Optical search systems will scan
through 100GB in 5 seconds
•Compares to 30 minutes for
tape
•Biometric applications being
developed
STORAGE (Contd…)
Massive increase in todays data
storage requirements
•Use of databases has increased
•Online transactions & billing
•More marketing data in use
What does this mean for todays
solutions?
•Backups and Disaster Recovery
•Taking data on the road
•Syncing when back in the office
•Faster access to archived and current data
on the move
SUMMARY
Devices becoming more feature rich
One future device will have the functionality of 2
or 3 current devices
Push email is the current killer app
Writing is the new typing!
Data storage is on the up
Light at the end of the tunnel for network access
on the move
Massive storage capabilities in the future