With the release of 3G/HSDPA, and smart phones actually becoming smart, it is amazing what you can do with mobile phones. I have seen software on the market where you can use you phone as a web cam using 3G video calling, which is quite good to do, but will kill your battery life and make your network very happy with your high bills. What i am looking for is where you can use your phone to wireless hook in to your home/business intruder alarm system. Think about it, all you would need to do is to dial a number that is attached to your system and it will be able to stream the video up link direct to your mobile. I’m sure there is more than one mother, that would love to be able to do that, to keep a reassuring eye over there young ones while they are away. It would allow security guards to still keep an eye on who is entering and leaving the buildings while they inspect the property on their rounds. With 3G coverage improving all over the country it will soon not be a problem having to worry about the coverage.
I admit, I am one of these people, who are always on the mobile, no matter where i am or what i am doing, I’m using my mobile phone. If you are one of these people like me who, always is connected to the electronic world, then you must suffer the same fate as me, with battery life. When i look at my usage, i can see why i run out of battery so much, I’m using a push email service, this means there is an always on Internet connection, due to using Internet based products, I must have 3g turned on (hsdpa when i can get it). This plus my extensive use of calls and texts on a daily basis, often leaves me having to charge my phone each night. After my friends haggled me into joining last.fm, i have downloaded a piece of software onto my phone, allowing me to scrobble music on the move, my battery life has dropped to just 9 hours. This is on the E71 which can handle up-to 10hrs of talk-time. Battery life is the only thing letting phones down in today electronic age. the first manufacturer that can provide a brilliant battery supply for their phones, will be the company that will owns the market, HTC seem yet to know, this after trailing the HTC Diamond out previously. I know switching back to using removable batteries like AA’s isn’t going to be good for anyone, but having them to use as a back up would be useful, rather than hunting around for a charger and plug socket while on the move.
I was digging through a drawer the other day and came accross a phone I bought around 4/5 years ago. It was the Samsung P510.
For those of you that don’t know this little phone, it had an automatic flip on it - press a button on the side, and the clamshell opens up and I bought the P510 purely for this little feature!.
I remember getting chased around my car when a friend saw it, and wanted to play with the phone. I said a phone was not a toy and refused to hand it over, they started to chase me, and a hilarious scene of stop and start, chase ensued, complete with onstant changing directions. I think I fell over laughing and handed the phone over.
Anyway, it as it was such a gimmicky reason to buy a phone, but I was thinking about why I like a phone now. I usually decide based on how many things it can do - faster internet, GPS, camera, etc etc.
How times have changed! Mobile phones when they first came out were all about calls and texts, then cameras, and music then internet. The most advanced thing you could do with them then was buy a different cover!
Oh, and remember the “latest” polyphonic ringtones?! How bad were they? I actually spent £2.50 buying a Britney Spears track for it. Once I’d charged the phone and listened to it… oh dear!
What a way we have come. I wonder what our phones will do in another 5 years…?