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Feature Phones to venture into the world of Cloud
By siliconindia
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Friday, 27 May 2011, 20:34 IST |
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Bangalore: Cloud computing is the news buzz in the market and everyone wants to join the bandwagon in some way or the other. Soon we will witness that feature phones will work on cloud and this can be a revolutionary change in feature phones.
Telecom giants are eager to use this boom in communication to its fullest. Verizon, an American communication firm has recently acquired Terremark, a company that specializes in web hosting and cloud computing. So it could be obvious that Verizon will use the technology of Terremark to rest its phones on cloud. Samsung and Motorola are the front runners in this initiative of displaying cloud based mobile phones. Samsung is looking to use either Chromium or even WebOS from HP to make sure it has a great user interface in place. The recent news of Motorola acquiring Zecter, a company that provides music and photo streaming services to mobile phones also indicates their intention to make extensive use of Cloud.
Users will benefit big time from Cloud, as it will provide a very low cost of phones as one need not store its apps on their phone and will be able to access apps from a cloud server. The data accessed by smartphones resides on the phone itself hence this raises the bar of the cost in them. Cloud phones, on the other hand, are cheaper phones running on software stored in a remote server or cloud and one does not need to carry data with them. All one needs to do is just pluck data from the cloud and make use of your apps, data, and whatever you like.
This means that feature phones will now have the same amount of data available to them as that of smartphone and there is no worries for data storage since it will be taken care by the Cloud. However in order to store data beyond the free limit one has to pay a certain amount.
The most significant part of this boom is that phone users can go for a new handset without worrying about their personal data since Cloud will keep it safe in it. More interestingly, other apps like the music player, mobile desktop, printer app, and multimedia player can be based in the cloud.