Future of Mobile Computing - Consumers and Manufacturers Perspective

Mobile Computing has risen way above since it was first offered to consumers. Initial versions of Mobile Computing offerings used remotely operated objects, embedded devices, laptops, handheld palmtops, digital watches  and many more items which made the consumers witness the advances and advantages of Mobile Computing.

But nowadays consumers are empowered with smartphones which have easily become the substitutes for desktops or even laptops. Laptops and desktops are being gradually outnumbered by Tablet PCs, Tablets, Smartphones and UltraBooks. These devices have drastically got reduced in size and have immensely grown in the computational power they offers. There is a merger of two futuristic technologies namely Mobile and Cloud Computing to virtually monitor, offer and shift all the computing to mobile/movable devices which are able to run on software that is remotely located in a distant cloud based server. 

The present Mobile Computers or Handheld Devices or Smartphones/Tablet PCs etc offer an ever increasing amount of hardware in terms of its processing, storage or connectivity abilities. A generic solution is available to the consumers from which they have to choose in order to select a piece of product that would more or less suit their needs. Rather the global trend sees a common trend of selecting the latest mobile phone from the manufacturers that is either recently launched or is from a consumer favorite brand like Apple or Samsung or HTC.

But if we look into the future I would see a major shift in what people would like to chose in terms of what kind of Mobile Smartphone or Tablet they would like to buy. In future it would be like a building or configuring a Smartphone down to the lowest hardware/software levels to suit a particular consumer needs. 

Gone will be days when we would be buying a pre-configured phone which the Manufacturer thinks is the best choice for us. We will be able to configure or phones and suit them to our needs. We would fill them with those usability features that would truly help us in our jobs or daily chores. Recently Motorola has taken a brave move in offering phones to UK Consumers which can be pre-configured as per user's needs.

In future we would also see a major shift from limb-held devices to limb-mounted devices. Like we would not be wearing a smart watch but it would be mounted on our wrists as a mounted or embedded component in our skin or by any other prosthetic means. 

Also we would be seeing an era of ubiquitous computing and a mobile computing environment which will be self aware of the surroundings and would be smart or intelligent enough to even predict that we have chances of catching cold in case we step into cold water under some jittery health condition. 

We are soon approaching the future that all the computing we see will transform itself from a stationary technology to Mobile Technologies. All the Computing will see a major shift from Stationed technology centers to Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies. 

There is lot of scope for innovators to pre-approach and visualize the scenarios to offer newer and smarter services and in the way take advantage of the financial boom it has in it stakes.