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You know... SK Telecom, in South Korea just announced speeds of over 200Mbps for mobile data. I believe that speed tends to increase over time. We will get to a
by goshx 13y ago
You know... SK Telecom, in South Korea just announced speeds of over 200Mbps for mobile data. I believe that speed tends to increase over time. We will get to a point where smartphones will just become dumb terminals, using resources from a "cloud". We are talking years from now, but that could easily become the next big leap, IMHO.
- conover 13y agoLatency is going to the hurdle there. You can have the fastest connection in the world but if it takes 400ms to pull up someone's contact info, no one is going to give a fuck.
- kefka 13y agoNo, I look at this as I would connect my laptop to a supercomputer via ssh or PuTTY. I still have a good amount of computing local, but for those heavy jobs, I can send it elsewhere and have it come back to me. Think voice-text transliteration, near immediate video processing, instantaneous (near real-time) voice translation, map stuffs. And if we use a system that allows shared code to migrate from one machine to the next (think Erlang), then we don't even need that ssh tunnel... The estimated weights on a process would send it appropriately to the right cluster of CPUs.
- sirkneeland 13y agoThat is already how voice recognition, translation, etc services work on smartphones today. At least in Google and Windows/Bing systems, that is done in the cloud and sent back to your phone. They have simpler, less powerful versions entirely on the phone that are used as a fallback (one explicitly warned by the vendor to be inferior, mind you) for when the device cannot connect to the big iron in the sky.