Tuesday, May 13, 2008

What the future holds


As the world moves more and more towards a digital convergence of products, I am assuming hat the simple cell phone will be more than just a phone. Talking and communicating will probably be the very last thing that people will want to use their cell phones for. Already some people use their cell phones just to play games or to play music. A friend of mine has two phones, one he uses for making and receiving calls and SMSs and the other he uses to download music and videos and nothing else. I am sure a phone that allows you to do everything a phone can do at once, without having to recharge the battery every hour is on its way. This brings me to the main point of my discussion, the future of the cell phone and what expectations are there for the cell phone industry. There are a lot of things that cell phones may still be able to do, other than what most of them can already do now. Just imagine having a television installed on your phone…where you can watch as many programmes and channels as you like, like DSTV; music that will go beyond ringtones. Yes, now you get phones that have FM radio but imagine being able to download a song to your phone from the radio while it is playing, or rather being able to view the artist’s profile and photos while the song is playing on your phone. It would also be interesting to have camera phones that have very high resolutions, I’m talking 10 megapixels and above and also the exact image processing capabilities found on digital and video cameras. All these inventions and functions of cell phones are not just a fantasy, I assure you- in the next ten years they will be available and maybe even more-the sky is the limit.

No comments: