The future of mobile is surface
FORGET MERE touch screens. The whole surface of a mobile phone will soon act as the UI for a mobile phone according to Abhijit Kabra, a mobile guru for Accenture.
His job is to look good and hard at future trends and technologies which might affect the whole mobile sector. He reckons while the Vole has announced surface computing for the tabletop, it makes more sense for mobile phones.
Kabra was making a whole lot of predictions during his visit to the Smartphone show in London. The fact that a whole bunch of players in the mobile 'value chain' have got together at the show under a single umbrella – the Symbian Foundation – presents opportunities for the likes of Accenture.
Some of his ideas don't sound like they will fly. Such as 'memory as a service'. Such an offering would enable 'dumb' handsets to utilise Net based memory and storage.
Sadly this sounded too much like the old ASP (Application Service Provider) model to the INQ. So don't hold your breathe on that one.
A possible winner amongst his ideas is a standard means of turning off the camera function inside a mobile phone to prevent the likes of industrial espionage. The INQ has previously had to hand over a cameraphone purely in order to enter one chip foundry.
So if the Symbian Foundation got its act together, people could still take their cameraphones to work, knowing the camera facility will automatically be disabled over-the-air (OTA).
His last prediction was somewhat ineviatble. Accenture is putting the necessary building blocks into place to allow for "dynamic mobile widget generation." Widgets-r-us, then? µ
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That OTA idea is a terrific one for ME. That's cos blokes like me are super cheap, so I kept my old phone even though it is sooooo past its prime. The nice thing about it love, is it is immune to having its camera function turned off wirelessly. So I'll just breeze past security saying "its okay cos your OTA scheme disabled it" and then proceed to snap away. I'll say it's just a make-believe camera because clearly, OTA disables everything within range (hah hah!). Then I'll sell my old-tech espionage to the highest bidder on eBay. In fact, I already know how to get within camera view of the coca cola recipe....