Liu Lin, Director of Marketing Strategy Department of ZTE Corporation, said the mobile phone has now been turned into smartphone (smart phones) were considered no longer just going to be used as a medium for people to communicate. But already a tool for those other activities, such as finding information on the Internet, stores a number of important data, work, to play games.

After the phase of the above, then the phone will continue to evolve into more sophisticated. One of the most championed is that of mobile phones in the future will be integrated with other electronic devices. For example, if you want to change the TV channel, could use a smartphone or can also control and monitor cameras installed in the home via the device
our handheld.

“Yes, so it will connect with other devices. One of them we can monitor the house from afar. Approximately’ll like it in the future,” said Liu. Mobile phone industry is now much dominated the smartphone. According to data collected by ZTE, the proportion of the smartphone market share is now reach 50 percent of the world. In other words, has the greater need would be a smart phone users.

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It has long been rumored that Verizon Wireless will begin selling the iPhone. But Lowell McAdam, Verizon Wireless leader, Wednesday, underestimate the possibility of the iPhone uses Verizon’s 3G network today. Verizon expects the new Verizon network, the fastest 4G network, McAdam said in a wireless conference in San Francisco, responding to comments by Apple chief executive this September.

The Wall Street Journal, citing an explanation of Apple Inc said on Wednesday that the company will begin mass producing the iPhone that works on CDMA networks, the kind used by Verizon, until the end of the year. They just started selling it early next year. But yet Verizon Wireless. Sprint Nextel Corp. using the same technology, such as some Chinese and Korean operators. Sprint and Apple declined comment.

iPhone now only work on GSM networks, including the exclusive iPhone network in the U.S. operator, AT & T Inc. The Journal also said that Apple is developing a fifth generation iPhone that looks different from those sold today. Latest iPhone design with a smaller screen and bigger than the existing model, also has long been rumored. Apple has released model tebaru every June.

Shaw Wu, an analyst at Kaufman Bros., wrote in a research note Wednesday that “in our examination with the industry and supply chain sources, we have seen indications of the development and progress of the new iPhone form.”

Apple stock closed Wednesday up 25 cents at 289.19 dollars. Shares of Verizon rose 28 cents to 33.36 dollars, and AT & T shares fell 32 cents to 28.62 dollars, according to AP.

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Liza Colburn uses her cellphone constantly. Jodi Hilton for The New York Times Liza Colburn and her 12-year-old daughter, Abigail, use their cellphones for many tasks, but make relatively few phone calls.
She taps out her grocery lists, records voice memos, listens to music at the gym, tracks her caloric intake and posts frequent updates to her Twitter and Facebook accounts.
The one thing she doesn’t use her cellphone for? Making calls.
“I probably only talk to someone verbally on it once a week,” said Mrs. Colburn, a 40-year-old marketing consultant in Canton, Mass., who has an iPhone.
For many Americans, cellphones have become irreplaceable tools to manage their lives and stay connected to the outside world, their families and networks of friends online. But increasingly, by several measures, that does not mean talking on them very much.
For example, although almost 90 percent of households in the United States now have a cellphone, the growth in voice minutes used by consumers has stagnated, according to government and industry data.
This is true even though more households each year are disconnecting their landlines in favor of cellphones.
Instead of talking on their cellphones, people are making use of all the extras that iPhones, BlackBerrys and other smartphones were also designed to do — browse the Web, listen to music, watch television, play games and send e-mail and text messages.
The number of text messages sent per user increased by nearly 50 percent nationwide last year, according to the CTIA, the wireless industry association. And for the first time in the United States, the amount of data in text, e-mail messages, streaming video, music and other services on mobile devices in 2009 surpassed the amount of voice data in cellphone calls, industry executives and analysts say.
“Originally, talking was the only cellphone application,” said Dan Hesse, chief executive of Sprint Nextel. “But now it’s less than half of the traffic on mobile networks.”
Of course, talking on the cellphone isn’t disappearing entirely. “Anytime something is sensitive or is something I don’t want to be forwarded, I pick up the phone rather than put it into a tweet or a text,” said Kristen Kulinowski, a 41-year-old chemistry teacher in Houston. And calling is cheaper than ever because of fierce competition among rival wireless networks.
But figures from the CTIA show that over the last two years, the average number of voice minutes per user in the United States has fallen.
Still, even the telephone design industry has taken note. Ross Rubin, a telecommunications analyst with the NPD Group, said cellphones outfitted with numerical keyboards — easiest for quickly dialing a phone number — were no longer in vogue. Touch screens, or quick messaging devices with full “qwerty” keyboards, on the other hand, are. On the newest phones, users must press several buttons or swipe through several screens to get to the application that allows them to make calls.
“Handset design has become far less cheek-friendly,” Mr. Rubin said. Mr. Hesse of Sprint said he expected that within the next couple of years, cellphone users would be charged by the data they used, not by their voice minutes, a prediction echoed by other industry executives.
When people do talk on their phones, their conversations are shorter; the average length of a local call was 1.81 minutes in 2009, compared with 2.27 minutes in 2008, according to CTIA. For some, the unused voice minutes mount up.
“I have thousands of rollover minutes,” said Zach Frechette, 28, editor of Good magazine in Los Angeles, who explained that he dialed only when he needed to get in touch with someone instantly, and limited those calls to 30 seconds. “I downgraded to the lowest available minute plan, which I’m not even getting close to using.”
Mr. Frechette said part of the reason he rarely talked on his phone was that he had an iPhone, with its notoriously spotty phone reception in certain locales. But also, he said, most of his day was spent swapping short messages through services like Gmail, Facebook and Twitter. That way, he said, “you can respond when it’s convenient, rather than impose your schedule on someone else.”
Others say talking on the phone is intrusive and time-consuming, while others seem to have no patience for talking to just one person at a time. They prefer to spend their phone time moving seamlessly between several conversations, catching up on the latest news and updates by text and on Facebook with multiple friends, instead of just one or two.
“Even though in theory, it might take longer to send a text than pick up the phone, it seems less disruptive than a call,” said Jefferson Adams, a 44-year-old freelance writer living in San Francisco. By texting, he said, “you can multitask between two or three conversations at once.”
Nicole Wahl, a 35-year-old communications manager at the University of Toronto, estimates she talks on her phone only about 10 minutes a month.
“The only reason I ever call someone anymore is if I don’t have their Twitter handle or e-mail address,” Ms. Wahl said. “Like my hairdresser to see if she has a last-minute appointment or my parents to say I’m dropping by.”
American teenagers have been ahead of the curve for a while, turning their cellphones into texting machines; more than half of them send about 1,500 text messages each month, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project.
Mrs. Colburn, from Massachusetts, said she caved to the pleading of her 12-year-old daughter Abigail for a cellphone to send text messages with her friends after she and her husband discovered it was hindering her from developing bonds with her classmates.
“We realized she was being excluded from party invitations and being in the know with her peers,” she said.
Mrs. Colburn said texting had also become a much easier way to stay in touch with her daughter and receive quick updates about after-school plans.
“The other night she texted me from upstairs to ask a vocabulary question,” she said with a laugh. “But I drew the line there. I went upstairs to answer it.”

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Brian Kusler, 40, a software engineer, is already helping dollar bills join Susan B. Anthony coins as collector’s items. After he polished off grilled lamb and zinfandel at a San Francisco restaurant recently, his dining companion paid the bill and asked him for his share. Instead of hunting down an A.T.M., the two bumped their iPhones together, and Mr. Kusler wirelessly transferred his part of the bill, about $100. “I don’t carry a lot of cash; I don’t think anyone does these days,” Mr. Kusler said. “We go out, and I oftentimes have to remember to pay my friends back when we get home, and I want to be able to just do it right there.”
There is evidence that paper money is being used less often, according to the Federal Reserve. Though cash payments are difficult to track, the number of noncash transactions in the United States grew from fewer than 250 a person in 1995 to more than 300 in 2006. Data on the stock of small-denomination bills and destroyed bills indicates that the use of cash peaked in the mid-1990s and has been declining since, two economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland found.
“When debit cards were introduced in the early ’90s, that was the beginning of the slow and gradual decline of paper checks and cash,” said Red Gillen, a senior analyst at Celent, a research and consulting firm on technology and financial services, based in Boston.
Still, cash has remained essential in certain instances, like paying back a colleague for lunch, buying fruit at a farmers’ market or buying a beer at a cash-only bar. These new mobile payment technologies could finally change that.
“The problem with cash is that it is tangible, it’s inconvenient, you have to carry around a bunch of bills and you have to continually go to the A.T.M.,” said Jack Dorsey, a Twitter co-founder who is now the co-founder and chief executive of Square, which makes a dime-size device that anyone can plug into the earplug jack of an iPhone or iPad to instantly accept credit card payments. “If we can make cards more convenient and faster, it can replace a lot of the experiences around cash.”
Light wallets are not a problem for Joe Mangrum, a sidewalk sand painter in New York, who has been using Square to take donations from passers-by and sell copies of his book. Sales have increased sharply since he started accepting credit cards on his iPhone, he said. “I’ve made the sale as opposed to twiddling my thumbs because they don’t have the cash.”
The new services could have the biggest impact on the smallest businesses, like farm stands or house cleaners, that accept only cash and checks because they do not have stores to house credit card terminals and do not want to enter into complicated, long-term relationships with credit card companies.
Rachel Ancliffe, a clothing designer in Portland, Ore., sells her dresses and blouses at sample sales and from her home, and uses Intuit GoPayment to process credit card payments.
“You can’t accept checks because then you’re just kissing your product goodbye” because of fraud and bounced checks, Ms. Ancliffe said. “I sell 10 times more because I take credit cards.”
Fraud protection offered by the credit card companies is the same as when the card is used at a cash register. Some of the new companies say security against fraud might even be improved because they provide e-mail receipts, and those from Square include photos and a map of where the transactions were made.
The death of cash has been predicted since the 1970s, when electronic transactions like direct deposit of checks were introduced. But most digital payment experiments, like one in 2006 by Visa, have focused on swiping cellphones, as is popular in countries like Japan, instead of credit cards. Mobile payments have not taken off in the United States because Americans are just as happy to reach into their pockets for a plastic card as for a cellphone.
Instead of replacing credit cards, technologies like Square and GoPayment rely on them. Credit card companies stay in the middle, extracting a fee with each swipe or bump.
GoPayment costs $12.95 a month on top of a per-transaction fee of 30 cents plus 1.7 percent to 3.7 percent of the payment, depending on the credit card companies’ rates. Square is free and users pay 15 cents plus 2.75 percent to 3.5 percent of each transaction. It will be available for iPhones and iPod Touches in May and for other phones and laptops later.
Exchanging money with friends using PayPal’s iPhone app is free if payers use a bank or PayPal account, and costs 30 cents plus 2.9 percent of the transaction for credit cards.
Though people will use cash less, it is not nearly extinct, said Wayne Abernathy, executive vice president for financial institutions policy at the American Bankers Association. “Historically, we have seen more failed innovations in payments than we’ve seen successful ones, because you have to convince people that it’s secure, more efficient and reliable,” Mr. Abernathy said.
But a cashless society could become a reality as the younger generation, accustomed to buying music on iTunes and virtual gifts on Facebook, grows up.
“Older people still tend to like to use cash or checks,” Mr. Abernathy said. “Younger people don’t want to touch a piece of paper. They want to do it all electronically.”

By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and NICK BILTON. A version of this article appeared in print on April 29, 2010, on page B1 of the New York edition

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Lynn Barry/SixthSense Using a palm for dialing a phone number.

Many Indians bought their first mobile phones before they had their first experiences with personal computers. Pranav Mistry thinks that most of them might also skip keyboards and mice and go straight to more intuitive and interactive interfaces.

Mr. Mistry, a 28-year-old research assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, demonstrated what one such interface might look like at the TEDIndia conference taking place this week in Mysore, India, about three hours west of Bangalore.

James Duncan Davidson/TED Pranav Mistry, speaking at the TEDIndia conference.

He calls it SixthSense, and it uses a camera and projector brought together in a pendant that is worn around the neck.

His prototype, and the software that powers it, works with smartphones and turns walls, sheets of paper and other surfaces into screens for, say, browsing the Web. The camera translates gestures into commands — for example, you can hold up both your hands to frame a scene and flick your thumb to take a picture. Aim the device at an airplane boarding pass and the projector flashes the status of your upcoming flight. Mr. Mistry even demonstrated a clever way to copy and paste text from a printed page.

The best part, Mr. Mistry said, is that the device can be made for just $350, using off-the-shelf components and his source code, which he intends to make available on an open-source model.

“What I am in interested in is how we can combine the two worlds — the physical world and the digital world,” said Mr. Mistry, a former Microsoft employee and a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

It almost seems too good to be true, and he acknowledges that the technology will take some time to reach the market. He said corporate sponsors of the Media Lab, like the LG Group and the Samsung Group, have expressed interest. It’s unclear, however, when a marketable device will be ready.

SixthSense is also reminiscent of Natal, a technology that Microsoft’s Xbox team is working on. With Natal, a camera would follow users’ commands so they wouldn’t have to use game controls. The technology is expected to be part of a new Xbox game console to be released next year.

But rather than a product for kids in rich countries, Mr. Mistry says he sees SixthSense as designed for the masses in poor countries like India, where literacy is low and many people have never typed or moved a mouse. It could also be an easy sell in India because it works with cellphones — right now it works on smartphones running Microsoft’s Windows Mobile or Google’s Android software, but he says it can be adapted to the lower-end phones made by Nokia and others that are popular here.

“It is more relevant to this world than it is to the developed world,” he said.

Mr. Mistry, who grew up in a small town in the western Indian state of Gujarat, charmed the audience at TEDIndia, which sprung out of its seats several times to applaud his demonstration. He told me on Friday that he spoke very little English when he first went to M.I.T. three years ago because he had attended a school that taught in Gujarati.

He appears to have been exposed to inventions early in life. When he was 5, his father, an architect, built him an electronic video game because the family couldn’t afford an Atari machine. The crude game, which had its electronic guts exposed, was instructive, Mr. Mistry said, because when he touched certain parts he wasn’t supposed to touch, he would be stung by an electric current.

Mr. Mistry was not alone in demonstrating an intriguing visual technology at TEDIndia. On Friday, Ramachandra Budihal, a researcher at Wipro Technologies, showed an early prototype of an augmented reality system that transmits information to users via a pair of tricked-out eyeglasses that have a camera mounted on them. The glasses were powered by gear in a backpack that Mr. Budihal wore during his presentation.

In his demonstration, he showed a video in which he used the technology during a tour of the ruins of Karnataka Samrajya, the ancient capital of Karnataka State, which is home to Bangalore. Using the system, he called up information about various aspects of the ruins on the display.

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