Changing OS in Mobile?

Whilst we have a very few operating systems for our computers,
the mobile market is packed and jammed with a whole lot of operating systems. Thanks to a tight competition in smartphone market.

There is a whole lot mobile OSs out there.
Symbian (Nokia)
Android (Google)
iOS (Apple)
Blackberry (Blackberry)
Windows Phone (Microsoft)
Palm WebOS (HP)
Bada (Samsung)
Maemo (Nokia)
MeeGo (Nokia and Intel)
and many others to come....

However unlike our desktops or laptops we cannot just go ahead and install any operating system that we want on our mobile phone.
Life would have been so much different if the manufacturers just shipped a phone with all the hardware and leave the choice of OS to customers.
(Nokia N900 fans might argue with this but I'm only talking about official support.)

I fancy this conversation.
Customer : How much for this cell?
Seller : $300 only sir.
Customer : How much for "X" OS?
Seller : $50 without SIM. But its free if you sign "Y" contract for two years.
: Try this "Z" OS sir. Its better and costs less too without SIM.
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After all the bargains, you come out of the shop with the OS you wanted!

I hope it is not too long before this comes to reality. (N900 is spot on there!)

What do you think?

Colorful Google!

I've been a user of almost 23 (Yes. 23. In fact there are many more)of Google's services and feel satisfied enough with the top notch services. The way you can customise google to meet your own tastes is awesome.

Long back, I came across a the Blackle Search Engine which at first, I thought to be a part of Google Program but it was simply using Google Search Engine with the Energy Saving Black Background.

Its obvious that some energy conscious offices and users might have already made it the Homepage.
Rightly so. That is a great step to reduce your electricity bill. Because White color uses much more energy than Black.

OK, its obvious that Google will have problems in taking these steps altogether for the Whole world.

But I would say, rather than making it all black suddenly, why can't they leave it to the users?
I mean by default they can keep it white as usual. But once you login Google should be displayed in user's favorite color (need not be black). Simple!

There have been debates and blogs around the world about this, because almost every computer sees Google for a large amount of time per day than any other site. This makes Google the most power consuming site across the world.

I was just thinking why Google itself never thought of this, which actually is a very small step for them. This will also enable those energy conscious people to shift their favorite Google to Black while other enjoy their favorite Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Pink ...... etc.

Hoping to see a Colorful Google soon.

Ideas Click!

What do you think? Please Comment.


Here are some examples of colored search engines :-
Blue search
Green search
Pink search
Purple search
Yellow search


Reference :- ecoIron

Mobile with a Projector !

How many of us feel that Mobile screen should have been bigger.

Once you cant resist temptation, you go to the shop and buy a bigger phone.

But there are iPhones and LG Chocolates that come and go beyond our expectations.

But still they are just touching 4 inch mark. Want more?

How would it be if we could have a Mobile which can give you as big screen as you want?
May be around 10 inch or 15 inch or ......... as big as your TV for that matter?
Or even larger than that?

Absolutely possible.
And still it will swiftly slide in your pockets.

Yes, but of course the screen will be projected using an in-built projector.
Just point and project!

But what if we dont have a screen or a wall to project it?

Well in that case we will have two options.
1. Use e-goggles which will depict the screen in front of both the eyes.
        (Nah!!, What if we fall in a PotHole while walking ? !!!!!!)
2. Use a technology in which a screen will be drawn in front of the user. (Just like a "real image" we get in our Science experiments) Only thing different is that we wont need to hold something like a cardboard to see the image. Rather it will be an "in air" projection (as shown in some Intel ads).

We can adjust the size and distance of the screen to virtually anything we want.

Get the advantage of Full Screen (oops! Bigger Screen) on the go! .... In your own ... Pocket!!!!!!

Ideas Click!

Thanks to
Intel, Sponsors of Tomorrow

Read Only OS?

OK, now see this new possibility.

OS Piracy, Virus attack, System crash ...............

What if we could find a creative solution to tackle this?

Instead of shipping in DVDs and CDs the next gen OS can be shipped as a fast read-only hard disk pre-written with the Genuine OS (Hard OS) which cannot be formatted or overwritten except by an upgrade similar to a firmware upgrade.

All the user settings and installed software will be stored as a part of separate hard disk or a part of the same disk which is writable.

This move will help to kill OS piracy as it cannot be reinstalled. In fact, user never needs to reinstall the OS for any reasons whatsoever. If something goes wrong, just format the writable part of the disk and you're done! That too in a few seconds! You get fresh new OS back without any technical hassles.

Upgrades? Just return the old Hard OS for new one.
Licencing will not exist at all as you pay directly for each Hard OS you purchase.

Customers can be attracted to buy Hard OS by pricing them 60-70% of the Soft OS.

Idea derived from Linux Live CDs concept.

Ideas Click!

Thanks to
Savalo, Niketh.

Efficient use of SSD and traditional HDD.

We all know that SSDs (Solid State Disks) are very fast and are hence the norm for the future.

We also know that our traditional HDDs (Hard disk drives) offer a lot of storage space at a price 10-15% that of SSDs.

General customers are given two options by laptop/desktop manufacturers.

1. Get a fast disk (SSD) with low storage.

2. Sacrifice that speed to get Terabytes of Storage.

What if we can achieve both?

Speed is required only for things like OS files and the Program Files which hardly takes about 20-30 Gigabytes.

We can use a 32 GB SSD (or whatever is suitable for us) to install our OS and Programs.

To store our documents and downloads and all those stuff we can use the luxuries of a massive storage offered by our traditional Hard Disks in Gigabytes and Terabytes at a drastically low rates.

Storage + Speed = Smart!

Ideas Click!

Thanks to

Varun, Niketh, Savalo.