The Age of Mobile CPU Box

Over the last 20 years we have all witnessed many ups and downs in the IT industry. What's really commendable about this industry is the speed at which it bounces back. Just when we think all's over the industry comes up with a brilliant spark from some obscure corner of the world and the whole industry is on fire again. Every time some leading light has made a sarcastic remark about something impossible in IT, we see it turning 'possible' the very next moment.

As someone rightly said, 'Necessity is the mother of all inventions'. This saying happens to be increasingly true in this Modern Age of Gadgets. Today, mobile phone and laptop growth rates have surpassed that of landlines and PCs. Thankfully, there's still enough market in India for all to coexist, but there are debates over what will happen in the future. Will the new avatar of the mobile phone--- smart phone, takeover from PCs, and even laptops? Probably not, but they will become a complementary and essential commodity.

The accelerating trend in the use of smart phones and PDAs has infact narrowed down the need of an employee to attend office just for the need of sending an important e-mail or preparing a presentation for an importan meeting, while he can actually work on the same from 'Home' ... sounds cooooolllll. But, ...... every new invention has its own set of 'if's and but's' .... to analyze some of the most common hiccups in this invention, majorly what we really start to miss is a proper keyboard, mouse, and a large screen for viewing, which can be easily resolved by passing these signals to external equivalents over wireless technologies it already supports, like Bluetooth, Wireless USB, etc.

The other limitations that remain are insufficient storage, computing power, and a feature-rich OS that supports lots of apps. Storage won't remain a problem for long, thanks to the umpteen external storage boxes that are available. In the future, high capacity solid state hard drives will become common and get integrated into the smart phone. 60 GB SSDs have been announced, which is more than enough to store OS and apps. For the rest, computing power will be addressed by Moore's law, so you'll have powerful enough computing and graphics for your routine productivity work.

So, one fine day we would all walk into the office with our PC in the pocket.