Mobile technology and its increasing use throughout the world has almost become a twentieth century social phenomenon and as per the estimation by various expert agencies within few years we are going to experience a total sweep by the dominance of this handheld device. The use of mobile phones has reached an unprecedented height in the last decade and with the continuing innovations and development in various technological fronts as well as interactive space of new use and applications, mobile technology seems to rule the social, professional as well as personal space for time to come. The recent trends in mobile technology are indicative of more encompassing rise and dominance of it in all human endeavors. We are going to introduce here some of the most important and prominent recent trends in mobile technology in regard to both development in devices and trends in the user interface or application front.
Quad core processors
Quad core processor is just about to become a rule in recent range of Android smart phones. With the likes of LG, HTC, ZETA, many of the big brand names following the trend with Quad core processor, it is going to change the rule of the game. Quad core processor is known to have tremendous qualities in respect of power management. When you are not doing intensive and more consuming tasks like seeing video or playing video games and performing simple tasks like messaging or searching or say calling, the processor is supposed to save more energy by running automatically on low power mode. A development of this processor which is already in the market, called Tegra-3 comes with a extra processor which is automatically used for activities which need low energy.
Big, high definition screens in Mobile Technology
Big and high definition screens which almost paves the way for a experience more familiar to touch pad devices are becoming an invariable feature in most of the smart phones in the market. With Galaxy note and LG Optimus leading in high definition big screen devices others are steadily following the trend. This recent trend in mobile technology is soon going to become most usual.
Mobile commerce and mobile transactions
The widespread use and development of mobile applications as a social phenomenon have played a big role in increasing the use of applications for business and other transactions like banking and insurance and the trend of using mobile for these crucial purposes is already showing up and becoming popular.
Professional Application
Apple as the pioneer in the front of many applications which are really crucial for purposes of professionals such as doctors, nurses, chemists, teachers, etc. have changed the way we think of using mobile device for professional purposes. Now the emergence of too many smart phone brand names is likely to accelerate this trend even more.
Application store
When Apple launched application store for specifically its iOS platform based products, the concept was just brand specific and it was the only brand. But with huge success of having more than 200000 applications in its store and tremendous popularity of these applications in making its brand image grow higher, other companies are just following the example. With Samsung already having launched its application store, this is going to be one of the most important recent trends in mobile technology which would shape the space of mobile phones in multiple ways.
There can be more that could have been discussed as the recent trends in mobile technology but we have limited our discussion to some of the most specific trends which are crucial the future of mobile technology.