Wireless is a phenomenon that knits together people, places and devices, according to Sprint-Nextel Corp.’s vision guy, Russ McGuire. In his new book, the The Power of Mobility, he explains that the changes for the future are about how applications, devices and networks relate to each other and are accessed, rather than the advent of shockingly new, Jetsons-like handsets or software programming. It’s about forging connections.
Accordingly, McGuire told Telephony that he has identified five trends in wireless that will shape mobility in 2025:
1. Full-featured embedded processing power along with features like location awareness
2. 3G, 4G and Bluetooth embedded in a range of consumer electronics (think the Amazon Kindle), making them able to talk not just to the cloud, but to each other
3. The move to cloud computing
4. Synchronization of data, automatically, from different sources, via the cloud
5. Context-aware mobility: applications and services that take into account preferences, location, calendar and who the person is with
