Horace Luke, HTC's chief of innovation, the future of phones is in the cloud. "Right now, most tasks are computed on the product itself. But the idea of sharing the computation and experience with the cloud hasn't even begun. It’s like 1 per cent. One day everyone will have access to a data connection like we have access to terrestrial TV today, and that makes things a lot easier in a lot of ways” Horace Luke told Pocket-lint.
“It's [battery technology] not really likely to get better, but what we could do is offload computations to help the battery life" he adds.
We guess that it depends on what kind of computation Horace Luke is talking about. Let's not forget that the 3G radio is a major battery killer too (4G is often even worse), so offloading to the cloud is not as energy-friendly as it might sound. Of course, there's always a break-even point for these things so we never say never. It's just that right now, we can't find a whole lot of things that could be offloaded to the cloud in a battery-efficient way. Examples are welcome.
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