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July 24, 2010
Meeting the Needs of Global Mobile Workforce with the Nirvana Phone
This blog entry originally appeared on the ARM blog at http://blogs.arm.com/multimedia/meeting-the-needs-of-global-mobile-workforce-with-the-nirvana-phone/
The telecom and IT industries have for decades made much of technology convergence. Convergence of wireless and terrestrial. Convergence of voice and data. And most recently, convergence of mobile and desktop computing.
Mobile-desktop convergence has led to new form factors, like netbooks and now the iPad, offering intriguing hybrids of mostly existing capabilities. So far, it has created new categories of devices, without eliminating laptops and handsets. True convergence would mean fewer gadgets in users’ lives, not simply introducing new ones.
The explosive growth of smartphones and accompanying applications, increasingly deployed on ARM Cortex™ processors, finally promises to deliver convergence. Today’s smartphones, especially handsets built on Android, offer new options for worker productivity beyond voice, texting, and email. But pocket-size smartphones still limit full productivity due to small screens & keyboards.
Earlier this year, OK Labs and Citrix introduced the Nirvana Phone, a truly converged device concept for enterprise desktop productivity and access to business critical assets in a smartphone form factor. The Nirvana announcement leveraged real input from enterprise CIOs and the mobile workers they support.
Today, workers of all kinds are more likely to find themselves outside of a corporate office setting, rather than in one. Insight Research and the Telework Coalition indicate that in 2010, only nine percent of employees work at corporate headquarters and 67 percent of all workers used mobile and wireless computing.
The remainder of the blog post can be found here
Posted by Steve Subar on July 24 at 01:27 AM
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About Steve Subar:
Steve Subar, CEO and President of OK Labs, has been an honored leader in the technology industry for 20 plus years and has received several accolades for his work. Steve is an avid runner who can also be found communing with his surfboard in Bondi Beach, Australia; skiing the slopes of Beaver Creek, Colorado; or searching for the perfect Pinot Noir all over the world.