Smartphone's – Niche Luxury or Phone?

Smartphone market is a unique market and full of mystery. In the last 4-5 months we have seen some of the biggest models (Samsung S3, iPhone 4S, Sony Xperia S and Xperia U, Nokia Lumina, Blackberry with OS 7) coming to the market which will possible change the history, loads of reviews from different cell Guru’s and concepts such as Humanization of cell phone technology.

There are so many brands which are pouring into market on almost weekly basis offering very much same standard set of features. Billions of mobiles are getting sold based on those features and recommendations given by tech guru’s.

I have seen many discussions wherein we look for an answer of which mobile to buy? Which is best? etc and have collected few points which MIGHT which as per our self acclaimed cell Guru’s, Company Articles, Reviews etc are worth to have:

1) Screen Size – I personally believe that it doesn’t matter what size of your screen is. All matter is what Pixel per inch is. Anything above 3.5” will suffice the need of creating presentations, emailing etc.

2) Weight – Sleekest and Lightest is always in demand.

3) Processors – Better processor leads to better experience of using internet, applications in addition of smoothness of overall phone.

4) Camera – Worth having decent camera which can let you take HD quality images

5) Battery Life – Big thing, anything above 1800 mAH will make your day easy.

All above features make perfect Smartphone BUT Million dollar question is despite of all these super features – Do we get a phone? which meant for connecting others over voice? Does today’s mobile sets provide superb call quality? 

To find the answer of above questions, I spoke to many dealers, company outlets, Guru’s etc but no one responded to that. Per them I can get many features which can make life easy – but call Quality --  Umm No Idea!!

I cannot disagree that these Smartphone's are equipped with some of the cool features which make sense and make life easy. This is one technology which always go beyond traditions and surprise us by making our day to day life easy and left us wondering do we really need to depend of laptops or desktops anymore? But at the end of the day – question remain unanswered – Can I hear you?? Hello…Hello….!!

Top Technologies which will define Year 2011

Year 2011 started with lots of speculations related to new technologies. Everyone company, individual is exploring options related to it and trying to bring something new to the market which can define and shape this year. We have seen Hybrid cars, blossoming of 4G, new mobile technologies, PS3 on mobiles, Android etc. I believe it’s worth looking for the technologies which are in market and are in demand. Below is a quick synopsis on different new technologies:

Copyright © 2011 Apple Inc.

1) Tablets: With the start of year 2011, different new and unknown players came to the market and tried to eat the share of Apple – which is ruling entire market in this category, especially with the launch of their iPad2 with iOS 4 (The world’s most advanced mobile operating system). HP, Samsung, Olive were trying hard to capture this market, but they are too small (except HP) to compete with Apple when it comes to innovation. After all you don’t want to spend your money on something which can’t pay you back.

2) 4G: We heard lot about it during the end of year 2010 when 3G was exciting users about its advantages, but 4G is something which is now taking over discussions related to this technology. I don’t have any doubts that 4G technology which is fourth generation of cellular wireless standards will provide far better experience. 4G system is expected to provide a comprehensive and secure all-IP based mobile broadband solution to laptop computer wireless modems, smart phones, and other mobile devices.

Cloud Computing

3) Personal Clouds: One of the best thing happened in the world of software industry. Highly demanded by everyone, Cloud is a natural evolution of the widespread adoption of virtualization, service-oriented architecture providing Agility, reliability, scalability, security and last but not least improving ROI. Who cares about the physical location and configuration of the system, all we want is our stuff is available to us when we want and wherever we required.

4) Windows 8: Fear of Chrome OS and iPhone has made Microsoft to launch Windows 8. We know about windows 7, which has saved Microsoft brand image when they goofed up with the launch of Vista. I hope there will be something real there in Windows 8, except UI changes and non user friendly updates/logics. Hype is good for product promotion, but it kills the brand if there is an overdose of it – let’s see what Windows 8 comes up with.

5) IE9: IE9 which is currently in development is already making news about its features with its beta launch. It has been claimed that this browser will support several CSS 3 properties, loads faster JavaScript’s and supports new HTML 5 video and audio tags. It is also claimed that IE9 browser is a first fully hardware accelerated browser for graphics and text rendering. I can bet, Mozilla and Google Chrome are going to have tough competition from this.

Hybrid Future

6) Electric and Hybrid Cars: Best thing which can happen to human race where they can save natural resources, reduce negative impact on environment and make the earth more favorable for coming generations. There are several models in the market, including Pirus, REVA however as per news in the market – few better brands are coming in which will remove the fear of dead batteries etc. Hopefully, with the help of these innovations our ecosystem will recover from the loss which we created!!

7) APP Stores: Few months back I only remembered using iTunes and Apple stores, however now we have different stores for different companies. Google got its own, Microsoft started and now different mobile players like Samsung opening their own. This is a revolution in the market and is definitely going to change our shopping behavior.

8) AMD Fusion: AMD makes a comeback with Fusion reducing the difference between CPU’s and GPU’s. We have seen and reviewed many blogs, comments sharing the fact that Fusion Laptops provide long battery life and high definition graphics at reasonable cost.