To keep Qualcomm ahead, he puts his faith in innovation, packing ever more lifestyle features into the cell phone of the future.
But to stay relevant, the pay phone of the future needs to offer valuable services at all times, not just during emergencies.
The Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge dares students, technologists, designers, policy experts and urban planners, to come up with new solutions to take advantage of the existing pay phone framework and shape the future of public communications infrastructure.
With the new round of funding, Chairman and co-Founder Marc Gorlin told me on the phone that he expects big things for the future of the company.
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Industry insiders say Google is about to release Linux-based software that will bind mobile phones to Google's online services, a move likely to exacerbate the growing conflict between Google and Microsoft over the future of the mobile-phone market.
This new feature will be available on the iPhone and Android versions of the LINE app, with Windows Phone versions planned for the near future.
"We're challenging our dynamic and ever-growing tech community to 'Re-Own the Phone' and provide their ideas on what the future of payphones could entail, " said Bloomberg.
Oxford University Press rushed out a statement yesterday after getting a number of phone calls from the media about the future of its famed dictionary.
Nokia's dream phone of the future may at the moment be nothing more than a few plastic mock-ups and a lot of imagination, but it clearly has a powerful sway over the researchers who conceived it.
Industry insiders say Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) is about to release Linux-based software that will bind mobile phones to Google's online services, a move likely to exacerbate the growing conflict between Google and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) over the future of the mobile-phone market.
Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.
As a portable and truly personal computer, indeed, the mobile phone may turn out to be the credit card, or even identity card, of the future, making payments and opening doors.
Samsung is looking at the release of a Tizen phone at some point this year, with an announcement of the handset expected in the near future.
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While we wait for the phone to hit shelves in the near future, head below to sneak a peek at some photos of the Odyssey.
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The future of smart phone and technology, in general, is one of great anticipation and great possibilities.
Mobile-phone companies could become the credit companies of the future by offering customers the ability to pay for goods on the Internet while putting the charge on the customers' phone bills.
India is one of the fastest growing mobile phone markets in the world and is key to Nokia's future growth.
Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced iPad 2 which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.
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We predict the future by dreaming big, but sometimes the small innovations and the transformation of something like a phone into a portable computer are what really change the world.
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We believe these factors will help Windows Phone gain a significant amount of market share in the near future.
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The Finnish handset maker has announced it may cut 6, 000 jobs, or 38% of its research and development staff, as it prepares to adopt the Windows Phone 7 mobile platform across all future smartphone offerings.
All three combine to represent the logical future of personal computing: surfing, shopping and downloading the Net from your car, cell phone and TV set, and from portable Internet appliances.
If all else fails, the mobile phone inventors will prosper longer term in the arms of those with the deep pockets to take them forward into whatever the mobile future holds.
Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.
Back then the local companies made little commitment to Android and were still betting their smartphone future on the mature Windows Mobile, only to be burned by the late arrival of Windows Phone 7.
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Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store, has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.
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