Google's official blog: Seven Weapons essential for future mobile phones"

A recent article published by Google's official blog analyzed the future trend of mobile phones on August 1, September 21, Beijing time. The following is the full text of the blog.

Since Google was founded 10 years ago, the Internet has had a huge impact on the lives of people around the world. It has changed many aspects of politics, entertainment, culture, commerce, medical care, environment, and almost every field you can think. This prompted us to think: what will happen in the next decade? How will this amazing technology evolve? How will we adapt to the Internet, and (more importantly) How will the Internet adapt to us? With these questions, we asked ten senior experts and will give their answers in September (the month of the 10th anniversary of our founding. As Alan Kay, a computer science expert, said, the best way to predict the future is to create it, so we will do our best every day, gradually implement experts' predictions.

There are currently about 32 mobile phone users around the world, and this number will increase by at least 1 billion in the next few years. Today, mobile phones have become more common than cars (about 0.8 billion registered cars around the world) and credit cards (only 1.4 billion. In terms of the popularity of fixed telephones, we used 100 to allow more than 80% of countries to use fixed telephones, and mobile phones only took 16 years to achieve this. Fewer and fewer teenagers wear watches because they now use mobile phones to watch their time. Therefore, we can now boldly claim that mobile phones are the most popular consumer products in history.

However, have you considered the performance of these mobile phones? The performance of your cell phone in your pocket, backpack, or handbag may be 10 times higher than that of your laptop 8 years ago or 9 years ago (Suppose you have a PC; most mobile phone users do not have personal computers ). Mobile phones have a series of sensors that are almost comparable to Mars detectors. A mobile phone with only basic functions has the following options: Clock, Power Sensor (display battery usage), and thermometer (because the battery is poorly charged at low temperatures ), metering table (determines whether to enable the screen backlight), and more advanced mobile phones also have: Location Sensors, accelerometer (Monitoring vector and speed in the direction of motion), and even may have a compass. Most importantly, all these sensors are always interconnected.

Let's look at the trends in the next decade. You may carry mobile phones around seven days a week, 24 hours a day (a recent study by China Mobile showed that most mobile phone users put their phones within one meter while they are sleeping ), these mobile phones are very powerful, always connected, and filled with various sensors. What's cool is that everyone around you is like this. In addition to the features you have already used, what else will you do with these mobile phones? Below are several possibilities:

Smart reminder

Your mobile phone will always know your current situation and remind you as needed. This is now the case-EBay can send you a prompt when your bidding fails, and prompt the service (such as Google News) it provides you with the latest news, sports, or stock information. In the future, these applications will be more intelligent, more catering to your personal preferences (will be stored in the network Cloud), and send the required information only when you need it. A very useful Application Scenario: your mobile phone knows that you are going to the city center for dinner, which will remind you of the traffic conditions and where to stop the most convenient.

Augmented Reality)

Your mobile phone will use its sensors to understand your situation and provide you with useful information. For example, you stand in front of the window and want to know the price of the puppy inside. Your mobile phone will immediately learn that you are watching this puppy through GPS and compass. The phone will tell you the answer before you even ask this question. In addition, it will tell you its food and best training methods.

Mainstream crowdsourcing (Crowd sourcing)

Your mobile phone is your omnipotent sound transmitter. Through mobile phones, you can publish pictures, emails, text, Twitter (a many-to-many Internet SMS sending platform) information and blog articles. If everyone does this, everyone in every corner of the world can share their experiences in real time. A large amount of information is archived, classified, and re-published to others in an all-new and interesting way. You can query the most interesting places nearby on the Internet and view others' comments and pictures on your mobile phone. If you are very interested, your mobile phone will tell you how to get there.

(Note: Crowdsourcing is developed by a common group of non-professional developers)

Ubiquitous Sensors

Your mobile phone can obtain a large amount of information about the situation. If you get this information and combine it with the information of all other mobile phones in the cloud, you will see the incredible world. Meteorological information will not be updated based on hundreds of sensors, but on hundreds of millions of sensors. Reports of traffic information will not only be based on helicopter observation and road sensors, but also on the density, speed, and direction of mobile phones (and people) in traffic congestion areas.

Personal development tools

Your mobile phone not only facilitates your life, but also brings you income. For many people in the world, this has become a reality: in southern India, fishermen use text messages to find the best market in order to sell their products today; sugarcane farmers can receive text messages from Jianye to determine the crop irrigation volume. In sub-Saharan Africa, mobile phone entrepreneurs have become mobile phone operators to provide communication services for their towns. In the future, as mobile phones become an important driving force for economic development, these innovations will only increase.

Devices that keep pace with the times

Just like the Internet, your mobile phone will be more open, so that developers can develop or improve applications and content more conveniently. You can automatically install your applications on your mobile phone. For example, you have a software on your phone that can improve power management (thereby increasing battery life ). If a developer makes improvements to the software. So you don't need to move a finger, and the update will be automatically installed on your mobile phone. Over time, your phone will get better and better.

Trust and verification improve software security

Your mobile phone will provide tools and information to help you decide what to download, browse and share data. In an interconnected world, trust is crucial, and your mobile phone will help you control your information. You can choose not to share any information (the default mode), or share specific information with a specific person-the circle of friends and family members you trust. You will make these decisions based on the information you get from service providers and software providers and the collective rating of the community. Your mobile phone will be like a loyal servant: It knows a lot of your information, but without your consent, it will not disclose any information.