Cloud cell phone, let mobile phone not so "fat"

With the advent of the iphone-represented smartphone era, the mobile phone has become one of the things that people must have in their daily lives. Now, it is not only used to pick up the phone, send and receive SMS simple communication tools: boring? and online friends to chat, see beautiful food, take a photo show; , RSS also replaces TV news and know more about what you like; MP3 has been replaced by the player in the mobile phone, car, etc, mobile games can help you pass the time, last night did not read the TV series, today's mobile phone to see ... From Apple's Siri, to Samsung's group play, to HTC Zoe, the phone has become the core of people's life as much as it wants, like a dream treasure bag.

Mobile phones become electronic products "synthesizer"

Smart apps push phone hardware soaring

The ever-increasing number of features and applications are urging smartphones to escalate: faster processors, more memory, better display engines, bigger screens, etc. In 2008, HTC launched its first generation of Android phone HTC Dream (G1), with only 3.2-inch HVGA screens, 528MHz processors and 64MB RAM; After 5 years, HTC One has reached 4.7-inch FHD screen, 骁丽 long 600 1.7GHz four core processor and 2GB RAM, hardware specifications comparable to entry-level notebooks.

Endless "flagship machines", constantly break the performance limit of the mobile phone, to bring more convenience to people at the same time, also showed that can not be ignored: hardware development, mobile phone replacement becomes more frequent, some manufacturers are "three days a new machine five days a flagship", so that users have to realize the novel features frequent replacement of mobile phones; Driven by a "performance monster", over the past three days, a rechargeable battery has turned into a three-day-long, mobile power to become a portable device for every smartphone user; to meet the expanding hardware, the thin fuselage and the battery capacity of the continuous expansion of the fuselage, so that the hands of the operation become the most commonly used mode of operation ...

Visible, users enjoy a variety of new features at the same time, also in the growing burden of the hardware to pay. Smartphones are becoming more powerful, bloated and vulnerable, just as they were once PCs. Are there really irreconcilable contradictions between rich functions and excessive configuration?

"Cloud mobile" concept to solve the hardware crisis

The strong cloud computing provides a viable solution to the problem. The core of cloud computing is to deliver computing and storage resources from the cloud to the terminal to meet the user's computing needs in a service that is inexpensive, flexible and easy to debug and maintain. Google early in 2009 on the concept of cloud computing based on the concept of "network Notebook" product Chromebook, and starting from 2011 official sales. Chromebook the idea of doing all the work online, the Chrome OS based browser OS, which does not have a hard drive, uses web-based applications and data storage to accomplish PC functions.

Chromebook is an earlier personal product based on cloud concept

Smart phones as a service for users of the device, can also be based on this principle design, or can be called "cloud mobile phone." The so-called "cloud mobile phone" concept, is the smart phone computing and storage functions in the cloud, the mobile phone only to complete the basic interface display, buffering, codec and user interaction functions, and the use of high-speed mobile network to achieve rapid response.

The advantages of cloud handsets are obvious compared to the current performance-climbing smartphone. First, based on cloud computing and data access, shifting the smartphone's reliance on performance to a more flexible and scalable cloud eliminates the drawbacks of hardware performance constraints on the smartphone experience, while data stored in the cloud also avoids the intangible loss of cell phone damage and loss, providing more security for the data.

What's more, the mobile phone based on cloud service can reduce the demand of the manufacturers for the profit of handset hardware, and build a new service based ecosystem. Computing, storage and other performance core in the cloud, vendors can provide users with customized, flexible content through cloud services, and according to the services provided by the billing, thereby creating personalized services based on user behavior. And as phones reduce or even get rid of their reliance on hardware computing and storage performance, the cost of production will also be significantly reduced, coupled with a change in the structure of income, the mobile phone can be offered to users at a low price or even for free, and can be more rich in styling to meet the needs of more people, and even provide the possibility for custom hardware.

Firefox OS First Test water technology remains the biggest obstacle

Mozilla launched its official Firefox OS mobile operating system in 2012, with the internal project name boot to Gecko (boot-Gecko), where Gecko is the engine name of Firefox Firefox. This operating system is based on HTML5 applications, using the browser as the operating system framework, through Web applications to complete other systems of the app function, known as "subversive app mode" operating system. Although Firefox still has local operations and storage functions, but its design concept and development prospects, can be regarded as "cloud mobile phone" embryonic.

Firefox OS is expected by a number of handset manufacturers

However, at present, the realization and promotion of "cloud mobile phone" the concept of the technology still has some obstacles. On the one hand, the cloud mobile phone for the speed and stability of the data network has a high demand, once the network quality is poor or broken network, will seriously affect the user experience, and even the mobile phone can not be used, and ultra-high speed network for battery consumption is also very obvious. At present, the global scope of 4 G has not been fully popularized, even in the faster development of the 4G South Korea, the current 4G penetration rate is only 40%, and according to the relevant agencies predicted that within 5 years domestic 4G penetration rate is also difficult to exceed 20%, to meet the cloud function of the network environment still need a long

On the other hand, computing and storage completed by the cloud provide the foundation for custom services and are also exposed to data security and privacy disclosure. The 2012 outage-affected Amazon data center has made cloud data security a global focus, while the recent eruption of "Prism Gate" has cast a shadow over the protection of Internet privacy.

Of course, these are not only the cloud phone concept to face the problem, but also the entire cloud computing industry and related industries to solve the problem. However, cloud computing as the future direction of development, is already the entire IT industry consensus. believe that with the continuous development of technology, these problems will gradually be resolved, thin terminal + cloud computing mode will become the best choice for PCs and electronic products.

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