Instead of shoving a really fast, battery hungry processor, inside a mobile phone Accenture choose to offload the computing to a nearby laptop that did all the maths and then transferred the results back to the low powered LG feature phone shown above. It sounds great in theory, but will it scale? Will latency ruin the user experience? Will operators be happy that the network is being flooded with data going out to be processed and the results coming back in?
Too early to tell, but definitely something to watch out for. Intel and ARM would rather that processing power be inside your mobile phone, because they make more money selling processor dies, where as Accenture’s solution can drive data usage and therefore increase the use of underutilized 3G networks.
[Via: ZD|Net]