What is the future of Mobile Technlogy

Technology's growth over the last 4 decades is mind blowing and exceeded the expectations. During 1980's, in India, most of the individuals would not have thought about mobile technology. Every year, we are getting new models of smart phones, PDAs which can do unbelievable things for us. Advancement of the mobile hardware, gives scope to mobile development to great levels. In the current scenario, mobile development has peaked to highest levels. If you take in 2003 or 2004, we had palm top which ran in Win CE and did not meet most of the features and it was very expensive. The development of applications for the palm tops was not robust and extensible. Over the years, the technology improved and the processors started coming into the market which are small and compact which was ideal for mobile computing.




As the processing power increased, the range of applications increased. Many intelligent applications started coming into the market. The biggest advantage in mobile technology is the availability of software development kits which are free and easy to use over the counter. No license fee is required to purchase the SDK. It is freely available for download.

What are the types of platforms?

In mobile industry, we have different competitors who are manufacturing ranges of mobile devices.  The leaders in the industry are

• Apple - IPHONE, IPADs 
• Samsung - Smart phones and PDAs
• BlackBerry phones 
• HTC

The above are the mobile device manufacturers competing with each other.  The operating system is a very crucial aspect of any mobile phone.  If you take IPhone, Apple is using their own OS that do not support in any platform.  So IPhone is not very affordable to all the mobile users.  However, Apple has created a brand for itself in the world and it is now a sign of showing a social status in most individuals across the countries. The other competitors banking on Android OS which is open source and it is very affordable in the market.  The phones which are coming out with Android OS has equivalent features to IPhone.   The development of Android apps for the smart phones are almost zero  investment, since the Android development kit is available for free.  Development of Android apps are easy and do not require high end OS.  It can run on Linux which is again a free software.  On the other hand,  development of Iphone is very costly and require initial investment for buying MAC machines.



Now the open source community is coming out with a framework that supports cross platform development namely PhoneGap.  PhoneGap is a jquery based framework which interacts with all the native OS and helps in the development using HTML5,CSS3 and PhoneGap framework.    The look and feel of the native apps will be maintained using the HTML5/CSS3.  Most of the developers world wide are feeling good about this option and the people have started using the common platform framework for the development of various range of Apps.   The PhoneGap framework provides maximum flexibility and removes all issues with regard to portability.
To sum up, the mobile users is on the rise and the manufactures will not stop manufacturing more and more powerful processors and supply in to the market and the development community like us, will continue to develop more and more innovative applications into the market. A big Thumbs up to the Mobile Technology in the future.


The author of the above blog is Sridhar T A, founder and  CEO of Southern Info Systems, have enough experience of 19+ years in the Information and Technology sector.   Southern Info Systems, provides Software development, IT consulting, Corporate and professional training meeting the demands of the industry,  Infrastructure Managment, etc.  

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