What makes mobiles so interesting when it comes to wearable computing? The new issue of Pervasive Computing gives an answer. As promised yesterday a short overview or you:


Pervasive Computing compares mobiles with wallets. What a wallet does is that it transforms infrastructur into personal services. For example a creditcard: there is an infrastructure for payment but you have this tiny card in your wallet, thats enough to pay (mostly) everywhere.

Overall there are three basic points:

1) Cyber Foraging - means access to server and cpu power over the mobile phone. A good example are real time translations of text or symbols (eg. chinese) while on a trip to Shanghai.

2) Internet suspend/resume - your mobile is the main authentification point, what allows you to use every PC or notebook to sync your profile and settings.
-> "customize a PC on demand"

3) Hotsync anywhere - your mobile manages all hotsync activities for PDA's, PC's and networks.

Stay tuned, more on monday.

(picture shows the nokia 7600 umts mobile)