Can you believe that its been nearly 20 years since the Palm pilot graced our world? When it was first released it dominated the pda market, with its monochrome lcd touch screen and its easy to use PIM (personal information manager) application. Back then, using a pda was the ultimate sign of geekness-- it was actually the first thing i brought with my newspaper delivering money. But over time the PDA has been rendered irrelevant with the advent of the smartphone (pda+phone combined) and now tablets. So what will your future mobile device look like?
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Intuitive Interface
New smartphones and tablets are categorised by easy to use intuitive interfaces, such as the touch screen interface on the iPhone One of the latest must have devices is the iPad. I don't think it is as magical as Steve Jobs wants us to believe but it does dramatically improve the way we compute on the move. Through swiping, pinching and shaking actions, the apps on the iPad reflect the actions we do in the physical world. For example, in the iBooks app, books are placed on rows, resembling a book shelf and to change pages you swipe from the corner like you would if turn a page from a physical book.
Aggregated everything, Connected Everything
Its already happening with Palm's webOS. For example all your emails sms and messenger messages are threaded into a single screen, saving you from having to access each one separately. The devices will also behave smarter making use of external data and integrating with the apps and device better. Examples of this include locational search with Google or Bing, where the integration with the phone GPS means searches for restaurants will yield results around the local area. This smartness can also be seen in Fandango, a movie app for webOS. It further integrates with the phone by scheduling the movie in your Calendar app after you buy the cinema tickets.
Conclusion
Your device would probably much smarter and intuitive in the future. They have to be as we spend more time on these devices we expect them to match or even exceed the speed and capabilities of PCs. So therefore look out for more sensors touch screen and motion detectors that will further make use of natural human actions. And make your mobile data plans bigger as more data will go back and forth between your device and the net that will keep your device smarter and more current. What do you think future mobile devices would look like? Comment below...
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