What to expect next generation - mobile phones

Leading-edge technology is one of the things that many people think if you think of American society. Other parts of the world have a significant technological lead but in many areas of technology. Mobile phone technology and cellular communication is one such area. Believe it or not, most experts agree that Japan is at least two years before the United States when it comes to mobile phones and mobiles. But by looking at the Japanese market, we get a pretty good idea of what kind of functions on American mobile phones will be available soon.

The place to start is by looking at some of the features that already exist but are very high end and costly. Some examples are radio, TV and streaming video for mobile phones. U.S. customers have to pay a monthly subscription of about $ 10 and $ 20 extra. Japanese customers on the other hand get these services across a much broader range of handsets, and the service is comprehensive, faster and less expensive.GPS enabled mobile phones also only start, enter the US market, but were erhältlich.Japanische mobile developers for some time in Japan have a number of great GPS-enabled applications including mapping and direction finding applications and even location-aware mobile games developed.

One of the biggest differences between Japanese and American mobile phones is of course the phone selbst.Japanische phones have usually much larger screen sizes (typically 240 by 320 pixels), while the higher end American mobile phones are still generally 176 of 204 pixels. Japanese phones have also faster processors and more memory, making these phones and better games to play, to process more multimedia data and save much larger address books as American mobile phones.

A phone feature that is available in Japan but still not in the United States is fingerprint scanning technology. Fingerprint on the phone can be used to verify that the person who is authorized on the phone.The mobile develops towards a device is used to store personal information such as credit card numbers, bank account information and other sensitive information, and it is becoming increasingly important for cell phones able be to this information safely speichern.Handy manufacturer of which most companies that are outside of the United States, now become scan phone models for the US market with small fingerprint sensors on the phone. In General, these sensors are sliding doors, where slips his or your finger over the sensor, the user enter a fingerprint. Software on the phone trying features the newly scanned fingerprint with information, to validate the user by previous scans and, if validated, give the user access to private data, saved on the phone.

The use of fingerprint scanning technology is a basis for a more revolutionary mobile phone function that already in Japan, found, which is the use of mobile phones, wireless can payments to leisten.In Japan mobile phone users with enabled cell phones to buy these phones soda machines or type public transport systems, all by sending encrypted financial information from their mobile phones. All financial transactions require the digital equivalent of a signature that authorize the transaction, and that's where the fingerprint is used. Financial institutions in the United States work with cell phone manufacturers to bring these same features on the USA market. The technology itself already exists, but financial institutions work to the infrastructure and information security systems to develop needed successfully to such a system be rolled on the US market, to enable out.

In the first generation of these systems are payments by sending and receive by SMS messages.Wireless network can continue on the road can be used instead.You can use a PIN code for some early systems that have no fingerprint authorization, payment to autorisieren.Fingerabdruck verification methods are used to on the where is this technology for payment validation on mobile phones.Of course the use is more secure than using the PIN code fingerprint validation, so the case that mobile payment technology in the US market is deferred until the release from a variety of handsets can, integrated fingerprint sensors.

While the debate about how exactly these new features will be rolled out, it is sure that the phone two years from now will be much more we can pay than now ist.Wer white, can perhaps even our rising Phonebills wirelessly from our phones! only time will tell.

Marc ilgen is an Internet entrepreneur and an expert in mobile Technologie.Er operates a website called CellHow.com to help people find information about cell phones to help people compare cell phone plans, he has an online store for cell phone accessories [http://www.telemix.net]