Understanding how quickly a technology progresses is seen first-hand in the mobile phone sector. In the last year, we have seen phones released with 1 GHz processors. I can remember when I got my first computer that was over 1 GHz. Since phones are more like small handheld computers, what are the issues?

Phones with these fast processors have some drawbacks. The HTC Desire, for example, remains a great phone, but it suffers from a short battery life and low memory. All the apps in an Android phone can be a critical flaw forcing the product to burn battery or to run slwoly. The Samsung Mesmerize in Samsung’s Galaxy S line of phones illustrates other issues. This phone had a couple of revolutionary advances. First off, it was the first phone with a Super AMOLED screen. This is the brightest, highest resolution and thinnest screen we had seen yet. It had a faster 1.0 GHz processor, a hummingbird processor to be exact. It also had half a gigabyte of RAM and ROM. Due to all of this and all of the operations being optimized, this equaled a phone that was easily twice as fast as the HTC Desire. Most of these high powered phones, though, have issues with battery life. 

While the Mesmerize is a still a very intriguing phone, the phone that I am most excited about right now is the HTC 7 Pro. This is a new Windows Phone 7 product. It has a 2^nd generation 1.0 GHz processor over half a gigabyte of RAM and ROM. Instead of dealing with SD card issues and the lag associated with the interface, they decided to just build 16 gigabytes of memory right into the phone. The phone’s interface makes the phone extremely easy to navigate. This simple interface keeps the end user from feeling any latency while navigating the phone.

Thanks to being a Windows based phone, it will effortlessly sync all Microsoft Office programs. While other devices will sync with Office, it often requires some kind of 3^rd party application. The 7 Pro allows the user to play Xbox live games straight from their phone. It also included 25 gigabytes worth of space on Microsoft’s Skydrive. This is a form of Cloud PC. 

Usually when people hear about a Windows phone, they think of the old Windows Mobile® phones, and this is exactly what Microsoft wants to avoid. Microsoft knew their Windows Mobile® was a bad operating system and has since fired the entire team. After hiring an all new mobile team, they have produced the Windows Phone 7 operating system. It is arguably one of the most stable operating systems available on a smart mobile phone today.

The greatest part about all this evolution is that this is just the beginning. We are starting to see 3D display phones and phones that shoot 3D video. It won’t be long before the mobile phone is something you put on in the morning like a piece of clothing. You will never notice it there, and you certainly won’t have to raise or put anything into your ear to use it. The possibilities in the evolving wireless industry are completely endless.