Smarter Future Smartphones: What They Can Do For Us

Smartphones have become a part of our personal and professional life. With new technologies cropping up everyday smartphones will become an indispensable part of our survival on this planet. It is interesting to ponder over the question as to what today's smartphone will be like in the future, maybe by the next year or five years down the line? There is no way to possibly gauge the future; however, looking at upcoming innovations for smartphones we can make decent predictions about it.

Let's take a look at what the forthcoming generation of smartphones holds for us:

Premium Designs :-

Expect future mobile phones to not only have advanced features from their existing smartphones but also unique designs. Smartphones are not just a necessity but a lifestyle for today's urban user. According to IDC Mobile Technology and Trends, smartphone sizes will nearly remain the same from 3.7 to 4.3- inch display size. Smartphones might become leaner, but they might not shrink in size. There could be transparent smartphone designs on display. There is a huge possibility, of improvement in the dual-screen foldable design for smartphones.

More interestingly future smartphones will come in customizable designs which users can shape in any size they want. Ultimately, users expect great functionality with appealing designs and future smartphones will be geared to merge the two aspects much better.

Flexible and Elastic Screens :-

Future smartphones will come with paperlike computer displays, made almost entirely of plastic, making them durable, portable and movable. OLED (Organic-Light-Emitting-Diode) will enable easily foldable screens, which will be as thin as paper with dual display. Users will be able to run two different displays at the same time. For instance, watching movie on one screen and reading newspapers on the other. Users will also be able to take advantage of a large screen display while maintaining a small size of the device. Smartphones may encompass inbuilt projectors which can set-up projections up to 50 inches in size. This will be a direct boost for the mobile gaming industry.

What's more, this new gaming interface will be voice-enabled and will eliminate the need of manual controls. Flexible screens will use the 3-dimensional space within your phone. Hence, they can be much faster and better in performance.

3-D Displays :-

Smartphones will move the existing 2-D displays to 3-D screens. This will be more advanced from Apple's retina display capability that offers a screen resolution sharper than the human eye. Next to follow will be holograms, which will combine a 3D feature with a smartphone projection. With such technology users will be able to make changes like pull, compress and so on to images, content and graphics just by the touch of their finger.

Moreover, such technology is fully realistic and provides every user the freedom of movement, without forcing them to wear special glasses or headsets. Future holograms will be able to detect their users and appropriately change projections as per user preferences. Hologram advertising will receive a huge boost from this.

NFC Smartphones :-

According to the latest forecasts by Juniper Research, one in five smartphones will have Near Field Communication (NFC) by 2014. NFC enabled smartphones offer innumerable value-added services to its users. From booking tickets to providing secure storages, it is being forecast that NFC will capture 300 million smartphone users by 2014. There are numerous reasons as to how NFC will benefit the future smartphones - NFC is easy to set-up and use, it can be used from anywhere, and it offers secure data storage facility to its users. NFC is a user-centric technology which will revolutionize the future smartphone market.

Conclusion :-

These features sound interesting and will definitely enhance the user experience, in a big way. Simultaneously, users must consider certain doubts before passing the final verdict: the concerns about pricing, battery consumption, and privacy issues. As of now, we can just wait and watch what the future smartphone technology holds for us.

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Will Windows Phone App Development Catches Up With Apple and Google?

Windows is the proprietary operating system of Microsoft . As computing slowly makes it paradigm shift towards mobile devices, MS has brought out Windows for the mobile device as well. Response to MS Windows powered phones is mixed with some adapting to it quickly while others feel it is way different from the desktop version. No wonder the initial versions failed to take off prompting MS to go back to its drawing board and sketch a radically new version. And this radical version called the Window 8 is making waves. It may not be the quintessential iOS (Apple) or Android (Google) killer but holds out on its own. Now that Windows 8 is attracting eyeballs, it is natural to expect a slew of apps flooding the market that work on windows platform. The flood has begun!

About Windows 8 os :-

MS stunned every soul of the tech world when it released the Windows 8. It had been selectively leaking prototypes to gauge customer reaction. This new OS seemed designed for the smartphones including tablets that primarily operate on the touch mechanism. For starters there is a Start screen that replaced decades old start menu. Programs appear as tiles which when touched (of clicked) maximize to fill the entire screen. The start screen is awash with bright contrasting colors that might either attract or put-off viewers as too gaudy. The flip side is that it has faster boot-up, in built security features, lower power consumption, USB 3. 0 and cloud computing support, and optimized installation to aid digital distribution.

For whatever reasons, Windows 8 is here to stay. And the app community has more opportunities and hence more work!

App development for Windows 8 Phones :-

MS threw open the doors for app development with the aim of rivaling the more popular iPhone application development or iPad application development. Encouraging app development for phones running Window 8, MS allowed the app community to indulge in Windows phone app development, albeit with some conditions:

· Optimized to perform in touch screen environment

· Must be able to dock on the side bar when minimized

· Dynamic content to display on the start screen as a tile

· Options to easily search and share should rest with every app

· Option to integrate seamlessly with social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter)

· Option to search and aggregate items from other services (like images from Flickr)

The Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) offered by MS are called Windows Runtime and supports HTML5. To enhance security and stability of the operation, MS requires apps to seek permission to access services outside their jurisdiction, for example, internet or camera.

Like Apple or Google Play, MS established the Windows Store to retail windows phone apps. Endeavour is underway by mobile application development companies to develop apps on this new mobile enterprise application platform for their clients.

Prospects

Aficionados of Windows in the app community are sure to develop scalable robust apps like mobile retail, mobile banking or mobile health to name a few. At present many firms use the MS Windows for their enterprise computing systems. The launch of Windows mobile version will enable mobility conjuring up the nickname of Mobile Enterprises. With more incentives from MS, the app world will definitely see more traction and variety.

Endeavour Software Technologies is a mobility company focusing on app development, testing & windows phone application development. It provides a bouquet of consulting services as well, right from mobility to enterprise mobile network management. Established in 2002, this rapidly growing company has a footprint in diverse fields like health, banking, retail, insurance and so on.

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History Of Android

Intro :-

Android is an mobile operating system (OS) from Google that is making waves in the mobile market. Almost all mobile set manufacturers, barring Nokia and Apple, have embraced and endorse this open source operating system based on the Linux kernels. And, why not? It's an operating system primarily developed for the mobile devices .

The overwhelming presence of Android has spawned an equally big market for application development using this operating system .

We shall see how Android and android based app development is a huge success in the following sections of this article .

Android Origin :-

Android was originally developed by a company of the same name. In 2007, Google which had the backed the Android development eventually bought the company and the operating system. Android started showing up in mobile handsets in 2008. Thanks to it being an open source software and open to customization the software started making news in the tech world. Google's alliance with a set of companies in the mobile handset arena (like Qualcomm, Samsung, HTC, T-Mobile and even Nividia and so on) fortified Android from any premature oblivion. The result is that Android mops up 75% of the smartphone market. Android has metamorphosed into various avatars and the latest version Jellybean boasting of features like Photosphere, Day dream, gesture typing, multiple accounts logins, faster loading gallery apps smooth UI and so on.

Android Widespeard :-

The main motive behind Android development was to empower the mobile handset user with more than just the basic functions. The developers of Android also wanted this OS to be freely available to ensure its rapid spread to many second level developers i.e. developers who create applications atop this OS. That objective seems to have been achieved. Google for its part entered into an alliance with manufacturers of mobile handsets like Samsung and HTC, the makers of processor chips like Qualcomm and Texas Instruments, and mobile service providers like Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile. This consortium called Open Handset Alliance ensured the continuance of Android with virtually every cog of mobile communication contributing.

Another factor is that the OS could be tinkered with and customized, and this was music to the open source developer community. The availability of easy to build tools and tutorials pertaining to Android app development meant that novices too could build and upload apps onto Google Play, an app store for Android related apps. Buoyed by the enthusiastic response from customers and the chance to monetize their creativity prompted many apps to be developed.

These days even google is trying to boost the android devices by their flagship nexus phones and tablets releasing at a cost price which is nearly  equal to the manufacturing cost of the devices and even got a great dev support and popularity  

Android today boasts of more than 79,000 apps catering to every whim and fancy of a consumer's taste.

Will Android sustain its popularity?

Today every second smart phone sold in the market runs on Android. The huge popularity and wide reach of this OS has ensured an every growing opportunity to grow allied businesses like app development, infrastructure and so on. Application development will only head north in the coming decades

Android app development- sky is the limit!

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