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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]
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
