Tomorrows Technology Today

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Tomorrows Technology - Today

• Andy Stylianou, IT Consultant, TIS Group Limited
• April 2006

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Overview

• Mobile Phones
• PDAs
• Tablets
• Network Access
• Mobile Email Solutions
• Screens
• Digital Pens
• Storage

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Mobile Phones

• Todays Phones
• MP3 Player
• PDA Functionality
• Camera (2 or even 3megapixel)
• GPRS and 3G functionality is still patchy at best
• Operators trying to recoup outlay on 3G licenses

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Mobile Phones (continued)

• Tomorrows Phones
• Major improvements in Battery Life and Screen
  Size
• Faster Network Speeds
• Satellite Navigation Location Based Services
• Camera 4, 5 and 8 Megapixel Images

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Mobile Phones (continued)

• Tomorrows Phones
• Camera 4, 5 and 8 Megapixel Images
• Better PDA Functionality and synchronisation
• Push Email

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PDAs

• Todays PDAs
• Integrated Phone, PDA, GPS, WiFi
• IPAQ
• Nokia Communicator
• O2 XDA and associated models
• T-Mobile MDA/SDA Devices

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PDAs (continued)

• Tomorrows PDA
• Improvements in network access
• Improved Battery Life
• More Rugged
• Integrated Low Power GPS for Sat Nav applications
• Bluetooth modules active for 20hrs instead of the
  current 4hrs
• Better Screen Technology

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Tablets

• Todays Tablet Features
• Speech recognition
• Handwriting recognition
• Touch screen
• Lightweight but power hungry

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Tablets (continued)

• Tomorrows Tablet Features
• Writing any way up, not just neat horizontal
  lines
• Markups and Annotations in digital format
• Next-generation mobile devices will include small
  external displays on their covers that will let
  you view (PIM) data
• Device and file synchronization. Synchronize data
  between all your portable devices.
• Communication and collaboration - Easy to quickly
  set up ad hoc wireless networks for file sharing
  and for discovering people who are connected
  nearby. The OS will also provide a way to connect
  to wireless projectors by supplying one-to-one
  and one-to-many support for wireless connections

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Tablets (continued)

• Tomorrows Tablet Features
• Location awareness - Allow the system to behave
  and look differently at home, work, school, and
  other locations.
• Pen/shell integration - Natively support ink file
  names. Click on an icon's name and write the file
  name in your own handwriting.
• Flick and Snipper utilities - A new pen-gestures
  feature (code-named Flick) will let you perform
  certain actions with a Tablet PC stylus
• Pen Optimized Skin - For a new generation of
  small, 5" to 8" Tablet PC devices

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Network Access

• Enhanced 3G
• Faster access speeds
• True broadband on the move
• TV on your phone
• WiFi
• Push for more open WiFi hotspots making the whole
  of the UK WiFi enabled
• WiMAX
• Intel producing first integrated WiMAX chipset
  much like Centrino

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Network Access (continued)

• VOIP
• Voice Over IP to be integrated into next
  generation mobile handsets
• Operators not liking this and seek a new killer
  application to counter this

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Mobile Email Solutions

• Blackberry
• Nokia Business Centre
• Nokia E-Series phones
• Nokia Communicator
• Microsoft Exchange
• Coupled with Windows Mobile 5.0 will provide push
  email for Windows
• T-Mobile Windows Devices

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Screens

• New Thin Screens
• Polymer Screens
• Allow the display to be manipulated into any
  shape and still display a clear image
• Larger screens for phones
• Needed to display web pages, attachments
• See much more of a web page
• For Satellite Navigation applications

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Digital Pens

• HP Digital Pen
• Special Paper
• Printed as and when needed
• Forms can be created
• Up to 1MB data storage
• Data transmitted when the pen is cradled, via USB

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Digital Pens (continued)

• Nokia Digital Pen
• Bluetooth connected writing on special forms
• Transmitted to the Back End Application
• Data transmitted when the check box on the form
  is ticked

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Storage

• Data Growth Rate
• Storage is cheap and getting cheaper
• Access to data is becoming faster
• Portability

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Storage (continued)

• Todays Storage
• 8GB USB Memory Stick
• 8GB Compact Flash Storage Cards
• 120GB Laptop Hard Drives
• 500GB Desktops Hard Drives

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Storage (continued)

• Tomorrows Storage Technology
• BluRay Technology
• Next Gen DVD Technology (DVD/HD)
• Holographic Storage

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Storage (continued)

• BluRay Technology
• 25GB on a single disc, 50GB on a dual layer disc
• Uses a Blue laser instead of current red laser
  technology
• Supported by 170 leading consumer electronics
  companies
• Recent PlayStation3 case highlighted the
  difficulty with emerging technology
• Players emerging Summer 2006
• Next Gen DVD Technology (DVD/HD)
• 20GB with 32GB under development
• Same blue laser which has shorter wavelength than
  red laser
• Demos being held NOW

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Storage (continued)

• Holographic Storage
• 200GB of storage on a disc (trialled in 2003)
• Laser beam is split into two
• Hologram is formed at the point of beam
  intersection
• Archived data will live for 100 years
• Optical search systems will scan through 100GB in
  5 seconds
• Compares to 30 minutes for tape
• Biometric applications being developed

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Storage (continued)

• Massive increase in todays data storage
  requirements
• Use of databases has increased
• Online transactions billing
• More marketing data in use
• What does this mean for todays solutions?
• Backups and Disaster Recovery
• Taking data on the road
• Syncing when back in the office
• Faster access to archived and current data on the
  move

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Summary

• Devices becoming more feature rich
• One future device will have the functionality of
  2 or 3 current devices
• Push email is the current killer app
• Writing is the new typing!
• Data storage is on the up
• Light at the end of the tunnel for network access
  on the move
• Massive storage capabilities in the future

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Contact Details

• Andy Stylianou, IT Consultant
• TIS Group Limited
• www.tis-group.com
• andy_at_tis-group.com
• Contact Us on 0800 073 11 73