Sunday, January 03, 2010

Mobile Cloud Computing – A concept

Afromusing reports on Africa Gathering speaker Simeon Oriko, who proposed a Mobile Computing Cloud with the following attributes:

- Put the processing in the cloud. Think Amazon EC2. Put the storage there too so the mobile acts as a dumb terminal of sorts. Storage space on mobiles is still quite expensive, but storage online can be very cheap, and processing information online is much easier that on mobile phones.
- Create a common platform that all mobile phones can share. Its tedious to make apps for the myriad OSs like Android, Iphone, Symbian, J2ME
- Integrated solutions like PesaPal
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1 comments:

Kin Lane said...

I believe that statement is correct. That is how you are going to see more power applications and richer content delivered to users.

The "terminal" has to be low cost to manufacture replace.

Putting the burden on the cloud to deliver.

You will see low cost smart phones and web notebooks worldwide grow with this in mind.