Things on the run

By 2020, it can be expected that most of the world's population will have not just a mobile phone, but a Smartphone connected to a mobile broadband network. These devices will have unprecedented context awareness and ability to communicate, as well as radically different user interface technology to what we currently are used to.We have already made considerable progress in terms of cloud services, context-based services and augmented reality services in the mobile environment. We expect to see these continue to grow in importance to enable new and compelling mobile services for all aspects of our lives entertainment, shopping, health care, intelligent transport systems and others. We also expect to see mobile devices become part of a rich video interconnection environment where seeing people becomes as easy and natural as talking to them.