2016: The end of the mobile as we know it?
How the personal hub could kill the radio star...
By Jo Best
According to HP, the future of cell phones won't be cellular. The devices will do without 3G, 2G - any other kind of G, in fact - and they won't be packing WiMax or wi-fi either.
Instead, HP predicts, the mobile will become just one of a number of gadgets in your personal area network that will get its connectivity via your watch, or a magic box in your pocket, probably using Ultrawideband (UWB) wireless technology.
Phil McKinney, CTO of HP's personal systems group, predicts that in future hardware manufacturers will stop cramming devices with all manner of radios.
Stripping out the connectivity will boost the rate at which consumers update their gadgets. Instead they will have all the gadgets connect by UWB to one stand-alone radio-stuffed hub device, which will then provide whichever type of wireless communications the other gadgets need.
McKinney said: "A year ago I sat down with a team in HP and said what will the future be like? More powerful, more memory, more radios... It will get complex for the users, insanely complex to design."
The team came up with the idea of ditching the radios inside the devices. Currently digital gadgets such as mobile phones, laptops and digital cameras can contain many different radios for their communication needs.
HP's idea is to take the radios that would have previously sat inside each device and house them instead in a 'personal hub', which the users will carry with them every day.
The personal hub will be able to detect the appropriate wireless for each device and hand over between them if needs be.
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