Smartphone will get smarter

Yes sirreee..., fasten your seat belt while we're embracing what's the future has in store for us: smarter smartphone. It looks like the mobile consumers, yes that means you and me, are keep on demanding more and more features to be integrated into our mobile phones. And it's not only us, but the mobile manufacturers also see this as a trend to market their products.

Let's see... for examples; Palm is now beginning to embed WiFi & GPS in its Treo 800w & Treo Pro handsets, iPhone now has 3G connection & GPS, and so on. It'll become a merely time competition, when mobile manufacturers are racing to get the newest features out from their production gate.

Digitimes is reporting; as smartphone functionality is becoming more diverse and comprehensive, chip designers are looking to integrate more functionality into a single chip to minimize power consumption, according to industry players.

After Broadcom successfully introduced a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth integrated chip solution for Apple, Atheros Communications, CSR, NXP Semiconductors, Texas Instruments (TI) and Infineon Technologies have also introduced their integrated solutions, such as Wi-Fi-GPS, Bluetooth-FM, Bluetooth-GPS or Bluetooth-audio chips, to satisfy the customers' needs, the sources indicated.

Long gone are the days where mobile phone is simply just a phone, no matter how convenient it is to carry your mobile phone as your shoes, *chukles* it's just there's something 'smelly' everytime we're gonna use a shoe-phone. ~LOL~ Hey, don't kill the old idea. It maybe is outreagous, but at least it's one of the first idea for a wearable convergence device. ;-p

[blogged with my Treo 750v]