The march of the mobiles

New breakthroughs aimed at boosting phones' power and storage capacity could herald the technology's next great leap forward, writes Ashley Norris in The Guardian.

What prevents cell phones from becoming the über-gadget of the decade is small storage, the size of the screen (an option would be to separate the screen from the phone) and battery power (good news here, Nokia has announced it's testing fuel cells which could more than triple the life of existing mobile phone batteries.)

But hard disk storage on mobile phones is on it's way and this should drive TV viewing on cell phones. In Japan, the first phone with integrated hard disk storage will launch this year and should hit Europe sometime in 2005.

emily | 1:26 PM | Trends |
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