The evolution of mobile technology, And the introduction of cloud based services.

Hey guys Its James here, and i have a bit of a rant for you. A couple of my own opinions about the evolution of mobile technology and the introduction of cloud based services to our digital world.

Recently, i wanna say around 8 years ago or so, our world began to heavily turn the corner with mobile technology. Two well known companies took to the streets with phones geared towards 2 types of consumers, Business and personal. These companies were Nokia, and RIM (Blackberry)
Now for quite awhile Nokia cornered the personal phone market with Motorola. For the longest there weren’t too many phone companies that could compete with these two giants. Exclusively Motorola had their hand in all major carriers, overhauling your cellular device experience with the introduction of one of the best selling and thinnest phones of all time the Motorola RAZR. Now i do realise i have digressed i was speaking of Nokia. Nokia was more of a world branded company. They manufactured many handsets some small, some large, some for the businessman, and some for the media enthusiast, they even had the very successful line of handheld gaming phones Codenamed the N-gage. In the american market Motorola had a firm consumer base, but travel to finland and europe where Nokia truly made its money, and you couldn’t walk too far without seeing one in a consumers paws. In america Motorola possessed sales on multiple carriers, Nextel, At&t, T-Mobile...You name it Motorola did it. Thats the personal market, you go business and there was no phone like RIMS blackberry. RIM stands for Research In Motion...Which to me is a perfect name for the company. With so many companies moving at high speeds, data and emails on the go became key. The devices allowed up to 10 email addresses personal or business, those who ran a business, or were in an office setting were blessed by the arrival of blackberries. It assisted them in ways never imagined.

I could offer more mobile phone history but it truly isn’t needed...lets fast forward to 2007-2008 the introduction of iOs and android, now at this time RIM still had a strong arm in the smartphone market, they even started making strides towards consumer friendly devices instead of just business friendly devices. Back around the 3rd quarter of 2006....september to be exact. Rim released the Blackberry 81xx series also known as the pearl for its trackball, which easily resembled that of a pearl. I actually remember purchasing this phone it was a solid phone back in a time where the competition was still clunky windows mobile and the sidekick series nothing else really competed....until July of 2007 and the realease of apples iphone...large beautiful screen with a simple low learning curve. the capacitive touchscreen gave users a break from clunky inefficient resistive touchscreens, those of which we had began seeing on windows mobile phones...consumers didn’t appreciate constantly reconfiguring the screen for maximum efficiency and apple had knocked it out the park with capacitive technology. They then slowly began their domination over the smartphone market and set the tone for what would begin the now strong smartphone war between iOs and android....fast forward 14 months later...a well known company by the name of HTC releases the google g1 codenamed the dream....and what a dream it was...it was android first os and phone so yes the build wasn’t perfect and neither was the os, but as iOs did to apps....android said we can have open source and allow our users to link so much of themselves to their google account. They also had apps easily comparable to those that apple offered, youtube, email apps. Not to mention an HTML browser. When the dream landed for that time the screen was beautiful and the apps offered were spunky and enjoyable. What Jailbreaking did for iOS, rooting did for Android, but they took it a step further, with android being an open sourced os, developers gained the ability to take the android kernel, keep the basics of android but tweak it to the consumers enjoyment. Ever since then android and iOs have been in a strong battle for dominance.

Sadly in this time where android and iOs have been the dominating forces in the time of mobile operating systems Nokia’s Symbian system has sadly been ousted, they have since migrated to Meego, which they also abandoned and now signed an exclusive contract with windows phone to produce solely for the Microsoft branded mobile OS. Even a small company by the name of fuzion garage has produced an os similar to the android kernel labeled grid OS. Which i hope to tinker with one day. The Os is very smooth and simple, you can even install android Apps onto the devices. But sadly in this time of 1v1 battles of OS they don’t have the steam or mindblowing experience needed to make a splash in the market. But in terms of flexibility and wanting to differ from the crowd I think they have something that consumers wouldn’t mind buying.

One other piece of technology that has been around for quite some time that Android and iOs have vastly overhauled is the Tablet market. For years only Microsoft produced tablets, but they were clunky, the processors were raw, and the builds weren’t consumer friendly. Some years pass and Microsoft falls away from the tablet market. With the evolution of these two operating systems and the evolution of SoC’s (system on a chip) the tablet market has since seen a huge resurgence, well i honestly call it the proper birth of the technology. Even RIM joined in on the war. With such tablets as apples iPad, and Samsungs line of galaxy tabs, and the motorola’s line of xoom’s the tablet market and its evolution is in full force, with this source of this evolution, data and backups need to be accessible from anywhere at anytime. With these needs, many company have began offering cloud services, cloud services are data only backups of music pictures, and any other sensitive data one might wanna keep backed up (in the cloud) Apple has the iCloud, amazon has their cloud based services. Even Blu-Ray technology has their cloud based services codenamed ultraviolet. The cloud keeps everything at hand from anywhere as long as you have a data connection. Apple recently introduced its newest version of iOs version 5.0 which gives iphones, ipads and itouches the ability to instantly upload everything to the cloud. So far Google only offers cloud services for music as does amazon. But both these companies offer them under different sets of rules. As mobile technology continues to evolve as will cloud based services even as i type this (and i wont lie to my readers) I just stumbled upon western digitals website, and they are offering a personal cloud based service, that you leave at home. Download the apps as needed to your laptop, smartphone, or tablet PC and have all of your most needed data, pictures, movies etc. at any time. 

Another piece of mobile technology that has evolved have been laptops...No longer do we have these heavy clunky pieces of hardware that burn holes in our laps. We now have so many terms for laptops. Laptops, Notebooks, Netbooks, and thanks to Asus i believe we will coin a new phrase...Hybrids, but thats for another article. Asus, and Acer own the market known ass Netbooks. Netbooks are small laptops usually with screen sizes very close to 9 inches. They are quick and usually only needed for internet access. Notebooks are larger with full versions of an operating system on it. Recently Apple bent some rules by Developing which is probably the worlds smallest NOTEBOOK. The apple Macbook air, which is a series of small notebooks with the companies full OS. They do everything that the regular Macbook’s do but in a smaller, lighter chassis. They have also began instituting the still raw technology of SSD (solid State Drives). Solid state drives are flash memory, with the capacity of HDD (hard disk drives) The positives of SSD over HDD are longevity. SSD does exactly what it says...stays in a solid state, therefor you don’t fear the life span of your computer. I must admit though sadly I’m still stuck in the stone age with what i have, but believe me I’m looking into upgrading to a Macbook air myself...Lets all cross my fingers for me. 

My mission here at the crash report, is to offer the most information, from the consumers point of view. I want to assist everyone out there who has ever purchased a phone, tablet, PC, camera or any technological device and been horribly underwhelmed. I look forward to reaching out to you all, and i thank you in advance for supporting this site.