I was a bit disappointed at last week’s CES Show. There were no big announcements of business conferencing with all the new smartphones and tablets being shown. Sure, there were some teasers with the new Android ‘Honeycomb’ and tablets promising conferencing with 4G networks. But really nothing new with what we have on today’s networks. In reality, 4G won’t be generally available for business users for some years to come- my guess is 2014. So I was expecting to see some competition to Apple’s FaceTime announced last year or Skype’s iPhone videoconferencing application. But from a technology perspective, I can see why:
· The computing power for tablets and phones required to encode and decode is large. Current smartphones don’t have enough power to accomplish this
· The computing power for tablets and phones required to encode and decode is large. Current smartphones don’t have enough power to accomplish this
· Video conferencing is a hog on bandwidth- data costs with current data packages on 3G networks would be huge(the exception being Skype and Fring’s commercial offering)
