The effervescent mobile phone has been a key part of our daily-lives for over twelve years now, I look back with a fuzzy nostalgic feeling at my first Nokia, which in all honesty was mainly used for playing snake, and compare it to the sleek, sought-after, tabular smart-phones of 2010.
It is almost laughable to think that we used to covet chunky handfuls of cheap plastic with clumsy aerials, soft plastic buttons and LCD screens. Back then I didn’t even really know why I had a mobile, it was just the ‘done thing’, fast forward ten years and a mobile phone is THE must-have ‘can’t-go-without-it’ piece of tech, not just used for talking to people, more a device for negotiating the heavily populated digital world.
Of course the hardware has come on leaps and bounds, for a long time the handset market was a fairly level playing field with a number of key manufacturers fighting it out, today the iPhone has locked-down the smart phone market, anyone who’s anyone in the I.T ‘it’ crowd has one. In terms of software, that is, the cellular data networks on which mobiles operate, not much has changed. Service providers have come and gone in various guises and the ‘top up’ payment method is dying a slow death but the bare bones mechanisms of the networks remain.
This may all be about to change in the future however. With IP Phone networks slowly filtering into homes and Business Telephone SystemsThe initial signs of this revolution in waiting is the ability to use Skype applications on Smartphones, this allows the user to bypass their service provider and make free calls to certain numbers. Of course the phone will be of little use unless signed up to a payment plan that is billed monthly. Of course the phone will be unusable unless signed up to a usage plan that is billed monthly. This begs the question then, will a manufacturer release a Skype or VoIP Phone in mobile form?
Such a phone would only be operable country-wide once the UK had total Wi-Fi overage which is clearly some way off. Nevertheless it is still something for major network operators need to think about, will they adapt or simply branch out into separate markets in order to survive?
VoIP looks poised to follow in the steps of digital TV, and eventually, broadband internet access, it will at some point, be available across the UK and form yet another facet of our digital lives? VoIP looks set to follow in the steps on digital television, and eventually, broadband internet access, it will at some point, be available across the UK and form yet another facet of our digital lives.
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