How pCell works and why its a bigger deal than anyone realizes

Re:How pCell works and why its a bigger deal than anyone rea... by TheEzEzz on Friday February 28, 2014 @01:21AM (#7317482)

If the latency of pCell is low enough then you could have a thin-client phone tunneling into a cloud OS. Now get rid of most of the CPU/memory hardware complexity on the phone (which should lower power requirements for the phone too). If you can wirelessly send energy then get rid of most of the battery.

Suddenly you've got a very, very thin phone with infinite battery life and computational power only limited by the server you're hooked up to. It's the perfect mobile device. Do the same thing for a laptop and I'm in paradise.

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Re:How pCell works and why its a bigger deal than anyone rea... by camillomiller on Friday February 28, 2014 @03:26AM (#7317699)

Wow, what a paradise. Total control made simple, that's what I see...

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Re:How pCell works and why its a bigger deal than anyone rea... by ivanca on Friday February 28, 2014 @03:40AM (#7317733)

Device good enough to do encryption?

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Re:How pCell works and why its a bigger deal than anyone rea... by aleksis on Friday February 28, 2014 @03:54AM (#7317763)

It's not like you can just sprinkle some encription there and it will be ok.

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Re:How pCell works and why its a bigger deal than anyone rea... by Fasebook on Saturday March 01, 2014 @10:07AM (#7324415)

Self updating newspapers, who needs history with an economic engine like that!

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Re:How pCell works and why its a bigger deal than anyone rea... by jol on Friday February 28, 2014 @03:17AM (#7317679)

Sorry to rain on your parade, but don't you like idea that computing device is independent from others and does not require network connectivity 100% of time when you want something done?

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Re:How pCell works and why its a bigger deal than anyone rea... by IanCal on Friday February 28, 2014 @07:46AM (#7318402)

Depends on the device. How about this:

An extremely thin tablet that's essentially a touch screen connected to your home computer, aimed for use in the home. Tiny battery, very little computational power & storage, hooked up to your own beefy computer.

Edit - intended for use just in the home. I'd want one, certainly.

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Re:How pCell works and why its a bigger deal than anyone rea... by m_mueller on Friday February 28, 2014 @10:31AM (#7319230)

Too bad screens are using a good chunk of your device's battery. Reducing the radio and computation to close to zero may reduce consumption to 30-50% but it's not an order of magnitude. The batteries are here to stay I'm afraid - until we get some radically different display technology, along the lines of a color, 30 hertz e-ink.

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Re:How pCell works and why its a bigger deal than anyone rea... by IanCal on Friday February 28, 2014 @12:19PM (#7320076)

This was more about having wireless power too (part of the parent comment). You don't need a 10 hour battery on something if you can power it wirelessly.

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Re:How pCell works and why its a bigger deal than anyone rea... by kayoone on Friday February 28, 2014 @10:56AM (#7319436)

if pCell also enables wireless power, youd just need small buffer battery.

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Re:How pCell works and why its a bigger deal than anyone rea... by roel_v on Friday February 28, 2014 @03:42AM (#7317740)

Well maybe sometimes, but given all the advantages of the envisaged connected approach, I'm not sure any more if the advantages of going off line will outweigh the disadvantages.

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Re:How pCell works and why its a bigger deal than anyone rea... by marshray on Friday February 28, 2014 @07:57AM (#7318452)

Do yourself a favor and get of town more. Leave the phone behind!

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Re:How pCell works and why its a bigger deal than anyone rea... by roel_v on Friday February 28, 2014 @04:00PM (#7321467)

? I'm not sure I understand your point - I go out of town plenty, and I leave phone and computers behind. When I need phones or computers, I'm generally in or near urban areas.

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Re:How pCell works and why its a bigger deal than anyone rea... by KaiserPro on Friday February 28, 2014 @10:24AM (#7319176)

And then all you'd need to do is carry a briefcase battery.

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