Your future phone will do the following, some of these features are available now, but your future phone is definitely going to perform all these features. What a gadget!
Wireless Charging
Tired of negotiating a tangle of wires to charge your cell? Boulder, Colo.-based Wildcharge makes a flat panel built to charge phones resting on its surface. Currently, phones need a special adapter to connect the plate’s charge with their battery, but Wildcharge hopes to integrate its technology directly into cellphones in the coming year. Another company, Pittsburgh-based Powercast, is working on an even more impressive feature: Using the small amount of energy transmitted in radio waves, it hopes to charge a phone placed near its devices without even making contact.
Alternative Energy
Another way to take the pain out of charging your phone: tapping into natural energy sources to extend the power of your handset. Phone makers including Motorola and Nokia are researching ways to use solar power, fuel cells and kinetic energy. Batteries aren’t going away anytime soon, says Motorola’s Jerry Hallmark. But alternative energy is a practical way to provide an “instant refuel” to your phone through a built-in application or a plug-in accessory.
4G Networks
To power all these advanced features, phones will rely on speedy 4G networks, which will roll out across the world over the next few years. Whether based on technology called WiMax or LTE, these 4G networks will enable faster Web browsing, more reliable streaming video and, possibly, lower connection costs for consumers.
Touch-Free Motion Sensing
For your phone to be a “magic wand,” it needs to be able to detect motion. A handful of current phones from the iPhone to Sony Ericsson and Nokia models already do this. So do phones powered by “shake, rock and roll” technology from a California firm called GestureTek. In the future, motion sensing won’t even require you to touch your phone. Simply make the motions in the air; your phone’s camera will read your commands. The best part? No fingerprints to wipe off later.
Source: Forbes.com
Samsung and Sprint have collaborated together on a touchscreen handset that could finally give the iPhone some decent competition. The Samsung Instinct is an EV-DO Rev.A handset with GPS and access to Sprint TV, together with a 2-megapixel camera with video recording, Bluetooth 2.0 and microSD storage supporting up to 8GB cards. However the interface deserves some attention too, with haptic feedback, single-touch access to favourite functions.
Motorola Alexander is the codename of a new handset prepared by the Schaumburg-based company and set to bring back its lost glory. How could it do this? Well, recently
Nokia N78, the first of the two new Nseries smartphones announced by Nokia this year, is now available in the US, as the Finnish company itself announced this in a press release appeared a few hours ago on its official website.
Bell Mobility and Samsung seem to be pretty involved in Canada’s participation at this year’s edition of the Olympic Games (celebrated in Beijing, China, between August 8 and August 24), as the companies have announced that they will offer Samsung Ace smartphones for every member of Canada’s Olympic Team. Moreover, Bell and Samsung will also release, on the 4th of July, a Samsung M530 Olympic Edition phone.
Sylvie Bernier, Canada’s Chef de Mission for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, completed: “The Canadian Olympic Team athletes are so excited to receive these phones and service from Samsung and Bell. Being able to connect with their Olympic support network of coaches and trainers from Beijing will also ensure Canada’s athletes have the tools they need to remain focused on their performance.”
Sony Ericsson C902i, the latest Cyber-shot candybar, was released today in the UAE (United Arab Emirates), one of the richest countries in the world. The phone is offered exclusively by Axiom Telecom, a leading mobile retailer from the Middle East.
Motorola’s latest touchscreen handsets, A810 and Ming A1600, are now featured on Moto’s Chinese official website, which means they will both be soon available across China.
Part of the Ming series, especially created for China, Motorola A1600 can be considered the little brother of A1800. The A1600 comes with the same weird clamshell form factor as the A1800 and brings similar features, the main difference being that A1800 has dual-SIM support while the A1600 was not blessed with this capability. At 128 grams and 98.9 x 53.5 x 19.6 millimeters (when closed, A1600 brings the following: a 2.4 inch TFT touchscreen display with 256K colors, 240 x 320 pixels and handwriting recognition, quad-band GSM connectivity (800 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) with GPRS and EDGE, the same Linux-based OS, built-in GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, a 3.15 Megapixel camera with auto focus and video recording, Music player, FM radio and expandable memory up to 4GB.
After yesterday’s official presentation of the second-generation iPhone, named “iPhone 3G”, Apple also announced that its new handset would be available starting July 11, in no less than 23 markets around the world. Also, iPhone 3G will be released by the end of 2008 in other 50 countries, allowing about all the mobile users on the globe to buy it.
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