Predictions in Phone and Mobile Technolgy for 2011

If one puts two and two together, they will get four. We live in amazing times, where two plus two is starting to equal five, which, I actually love, since that little extra one is not going to hurt. No, not one bit. If I may opine...

First, we have seen two main platforms, plus one, rising to prominence: Apple, Android and now Windows Phone 7. The first is programed in Objective C, restricted to using only MACS for development. The second in JAVA with its SDK from Google, with packages available for Linux, MAC OS, and Windows, and the last of course, Windows Phone 7, which can use the free tools available from MSDN, using Visual Studio Express etc...

Apple has set the bar for how a mobile device can create a definitive end user experience, that can envelop all aspects of the users life. However, it is my belief that Apple knows that the IPHONE is reaching the end of its product cycle. Apple may not be thinking about having the MAC of Phones here, although in many ways, it can be considered that this is what has happened, and wherever demand lies, they can always fill that demand, but there is only so much that can be done with the current IPHONE product. HTC has been bringing forward innovations, and to my surprise, Microsoft may have created what appears to be the next level for phones in respects to their current platform. The combination between HTC and Windows Phone 7 is bringing about what I believe the next level in mobile phone technologies, specifically focusing in on the cloud. The Android platform is also in an excellent position, a place that should have Apple worried, or else why should they not worry? I would like to posit my theory on why Apple does not need to be concerned.

Apple loves IPAD. Apple knows that even staunch Windows users are using their IPAD. While users of Linux may still want to go to an Android Pad, there are linux aficionados buying their IPAD. Apple hit the mark with the IPAD, which begs the question, will it move this product to the next level? I believe yes. So... here is my prediction for 2011:

Apple will come out with a 5 gen IPHONE.

Apple will come out with a 2 gen IPAD that will be a merging between a portable MAC BOOK and IPAD, which may not even be called IPAD. It will be a fully functioning laptop computer.

Apple's fifth gen IPHONE, in hardware design, will be the last generation for the phone.

IPAD or whatever it will become, will be a menace to companies like HP, Samsung, Dell, Archos, Nokia, and others that have ideas or intentions to build tablet computers.

IPAD will become a menace to Microsoft and Sony in gaming consoles, since the IPAD development will also center on gaming and pushing the limits of whatever processor will be in the IPAD.

* (this one is a bit iffy, but I m throwing it in anyway) Apple will secure the control of media devices, creating an IPAD that will supplant tv top web interfacing devices like the Roku Box, Boxee and merge the technologies in Apple tv seamlessly with their IPAD or IPAD like device.

It will have a sharper display, and higher resolution HD, if possible.


The laptops and net-books, especially INTEL'S Atom processor, that I touted almost two years ago as becoming mainstays, will start to see reduction in sales, since the new device will be a phenomenon.

I am predicting these things as they befit the natural order. I am sure there are others out there that may think the same as I, but I have no insider information. I only see these things coming to pass, and if I am wrong so be it. I am placing bets that all of my predictions come to be, if not some of them, either which way...

so says mrgnuopensourceman... let's see if this is another successful prediction...