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The mobile phone as central computer

The approach is as fascinating as it is overdue: Classical laptops and even tablet have had it, the phone does. At least there is now with the Motorola Atrix first concrete approaches to this concept, as stated in an article in time is online. The idea is to use the increasingly powerful processors of smartphones as a digital central processing unit. Processor, memory, logic, data - all shall go out from the smartphone. The laptop of the future is in this scenario, only one case for large-screen, keyboard and battery. And that probably only temporarily, except for the battery of course - to project holographically to the smartphone these hardware items can.

data synchronization is supposed to be superfluous because the data is not stored on different devices from the same user, but still central. In reality, however, synchronization is even more important. For here appear to have some question marks: If you save the data directly to a smartphone, it will be lost with the loss of mobile phones with. So you need to backup the data but again a reliable sync mechanism. If they lie on a central server on the Internet, are added varied security issues - at least for business-critical and personal data. And the mobile is away, this also means first complete incapacity. So you synchronize the data and then again to an additional computer, a network hard drive or other storage media or device.

Off the fascinating vision of the concept so there are still some weak points. Initially, the idea should therefore probably more appropriate for residential use and less for business-critical scenarios. And contradictory concepts are all able to overcome not so fast: A smartphone should be small and easy to work and even the reading of texts but you need a large screen and usually a large Keyboard. Compute-intensive applications such as video editing are likely for rather a temporary his problem. The evolution of processor and battery technology is also in the foreseeable future of the smartphone represented.

More info: time online