| So your cell phone can take and send | | | | in stereo. Some sets even include FM radio. |
| pictures, even video. You can text message | | | | |
| and download ring tones and games. You can | | | | Now with the latest wifi systems there is |
| even watch television and do some web | | | | also the possibility to connect to your home |
| browsing with UMTS. But if you're person | | | | or office wifi security webcam so you can |
| who's been using mobile phones for a number | | | | constantly secure the premises. |
| of yerars, you can appreciate just how far | | | | |
| they have come since the early days when we | | | | The next generation of cell phones seems all |
| carried around bricks in dubiously bright | | | | set to be a comination of phones, PDAs, |
| neoprene covers, and simply trying to get a | | | | global positioning systems, digital cameras |
| phone and service required the kind of | | | | and handheld gaming devices. However, the |
| stringent credit checks associated with entry | | | | next generation of mobile phones will be just |
| to the bank of England. | | | | one facet of the technologies that are likely |
| | | | to come together. Servers must run the host |
| The cell phones of the future may not look | | | | software in the case of interactive |
| radically different, but they will enable | | | | entertainment software and networks that |
| users to do a lot more and a lot differently. | | | | connect the phones with these servers are |
| High speed data access usinfgmobile | | | | also needed. |
| broadband, high quality video playback and | | | | |
| over the air downloads, high quality video | | | | Future efforts to optimize power supply |
| cameras, or live and time shift broadcast Tv | | | | sysyems for mobile devices will increasingly |
| and radio, and a posse of location position | | | | involve the use of multiple power generation |
| finding applications, besides ever growing | | | | technologies with an electric buffer store. |
| memory and storage capacity, are just some of | | | | In order to achieve maximum power utilization |
| the functionalities on the horizon. | | | | with the highest degree of efficiency, a |
| | | | system of intelligent power management is |
| The biggest and most obvious change is the | | | | needed. The goal is to link the energy |
| rapid take up of mobile phones. Twelve years | | | | delivere by batteries, solar cells, |
| ago, the were only for the whealthy. Seven | | | | thermoelectric or fuel cells in a device. |
| years ago they were still very rare. Now | | | | With this kind of system, a laptop could |
| there more mobiles phones than households in | | | | switch to fuel cells whenever light |
| Europe, and numbers are still growing fast. | | | | conditions were favourable. |
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| Today there's no real difference between your | | | | The local phone company's last line of |
| mobile phone and your PDA. Motorola has | | | | defence is Internet access. Will local phone |
| introduced a phone, the much heralder Rokr, | | | | services still be required to connect to a |
| that runs Apples Itunes while Sony Ericsson | | | | DSL or dial up Internet connection? Today you |
| already has mp3 phones on the market which | | | | can hook up your laptop or desktop computer |
| can hold up to 1500 songs. Nokia, the world's | | | | through your cell phone and UMTS connection |
| largest mobile phone maker, will be | | | | giving you nearly the same ADSL speed as your |
| introducng music playing handsets which are | | | | local isp so who needs a land line? |
| able to store thousands of tracks which play | | | | |