[CoMoDev] Interesting bits from CeBit
- From: David Beers <cervezas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <comodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 08:49:03 -0700
It's always fun to see what comes out of the CeBit trade show. A lot of the
stuff is more exciting from a user/consumer standpoint than from a software
development standpoint, but there are certain things I always look for to help
give me an idea of how healthy the mobile market will be and what directions it
may take in the coming years.
One of those things is power storage technology. I've long felt that the
biggest thing holding back really revolutionary uses of mobile devices is the
fact that battery technology has failed miserably at keeping up with the rest
of the mobile device technology. Ask yourself why voice isn't the primary
human interface to your handheld, tablet, or laptop today and the answer will
come down to the fact that the processor needed to do really good voice
recognition would drain the lithion-ion battery cells so quickly that your
mobile device would spend half its time plugged into an immobile wall socket.
Until we resolve this issue, forget about really good broadband wireless
applications, too.
Here's the news item I've been waiting to see for a couple of years now: this
looks like the year for commercial fuel cells for laptops and handheld devices.
http://news.com.com/Fuel+cell+holds+notebook+promise/2100-7337_3-5609019.html?tag=nl
There are plenty of things to work out before this will be replacing batteries
en masse, but it's encouraging news for the future of mobile devices and
software.
David
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David Beers
Pikesoft Mobile Computing
www.pikesoft.com
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