The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
For corporate users VMware claims that virtualisation will "allow IT organisations to deploy a corporate phone personality that can run alongside the employee's personal phone on the same physical device." Presumably this would enable security measures such as over the air file deletion, to be applied to the corporate profile without impacting the personal profile.
For personal users VMware points out that an individual's collection of applications, pictures, videos, music, emails, bank info, credit card information, PIM, etc. – is becoming much richer and more valuable. Consequently, the ability to protect and migrate personas will become an important purchasing decision.
It says that VMware MVP will save the persona as a set of files so that all the applications and data on the phone can be managed as a collection of files. "People can then easily move their persona to a new device making the upgrade to a new phone virtually painless."
VMware has secured backing from Gartner for this initiative an from chip maker ARM. It quotes Monica Basso, research vice president at Gartner as saying: "We predict that by 2012, more than 50 percent of new smart phones shipped will be virtualised. Virtualisation can enable enterprises and consumers to easily manage and secure their phones and it can also help handset vendors reduce bills of materials and shorten development cycles to allow for faster releases."
Eric Schorn, vice president, marketing, processors division, at ARM, said: "There is a rapid and growing demand for virtualisation technologies from both the designers and consumers of next-generation mobile devices utilizing the ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processors. Offering both time to market benefits for system integration and enhanced end-user experiences, we look forward to continuing to work closely with VMware as we enhance our support for virtualisation."
VMware has given no indication as to when its vision will be translated into commercial reality.
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