Arno van Huyssteen Title : Global Service Provider Company : Canonical
What is a Cloud-Based Smartphone , Anway ?
Arno van Huyssteen Title : Global Service Provider Company : Canonical
What is a Cloud-Based Smartphone , Anway ?
“ Explaining what a cloud-based smartphone is requires us to think about how we got to the current state of modern smartphones in general .
“ Today ' s smartphone is an engineering marvel , with multiple magnitudes more processing power than what it took to send a human to the moon , and yet , every year companies put billions of dollars into research and development to create yet more powerful and feature-rich smartphones . This drives application developers to creatively use the processing power to give consumers the next big service , game or experience and indirectly forces millions of customers to continue to upgrade perfectly good phones for the next incrementally more powerful version .
“ A cloud-based smartphone rethinks the direct link between the physical capabilities of the device in your hand and the ability for developers to give you , the customers , more powerful and engaging content and services . This is done by moving and hosting the applications that reside inside our mobile phones and tablets today , within your mobile operators ' data centre - more accurately ,
on the bare metal cloud servers located as close as the cell tower to which your phone is connected . By doing this , the device in your hand would not be required to have a powerful processor , lots of storage space or even an advanced graphics processing chip . The device ' s main responsibilities would now become connecting to your mobile network and visualising the content that is being interacted with on your private mobile phone digital-twin in the cloud .
“ By disconnecting the need to have a powerful device from the services we need and love , one could go a step further and imagine that any screen could be used to allow you to interact with your services and content . From the mobile device in your hand to a smart mirror or table in a restaurant , to the VR headset you are wearing . The physical mobile devices that form part of our daily lives will essentially require a radio connection ( 5G / 6G / Wifi ), a battery and a touchscreen . Once the next-generation game or services come out and the processing power in your personal smart ( phone ) -instance will just increase to accommodate the demand .”
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