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With the increased power, just imagine the number of applications you’d be able to run on mobile devices. Suppose Cell operates at 1GHz, you’d be able to operate most of the image and video editing software right on you cell phone. Say you just shot a video, but want to add final effects before e-mailing it; Cell would have no problem working through the process productively and efficiently. Want to edit an image? You can probably even run a mobile form of Adobe Photoshop on the phone and edit the picture to your heart’s content before sending it to your friends and family. How about audio encoding? Oh well, maybe I’m really starting to dream now, but the main idea is the abundance of possibilities for developers and users with Cell based mobile devices.

More power could also mean enhanced functionality for voice dialing, voice recognition and everything and anything related to budding technologies. Any Windows (Mobile Edition) powered device could have software that would convert voice-to-text seamlessly, thereby negating the need for a keyboard. This would be a welcomed feature for those who send instant messages often.

Sony could also put Cell inside its Vaio line of notebooks, which would transform even the most affordable notebooks into multimedia powerhouses, thus outclassing most desktop PCs of today. Of course this might mean that Sony’s Vaio notebooks would start shipping with XDR RAM, thereby making the entire package pricier than it is today, but as we all know, bleeding edge performance doesn’t come cheap, does it?

Since Cell is power efficient, we can perhaps hope for the increased battery life in notebooks as well as handhelds.

Needless to say, the possibilities are immense. Once Sony realizes the potential of Cell in mobile devices, it’ll hopefully come up with a mobile version of Cell to breathe new life into the stagnant mobile market. Until then, I can go back to playing the toned down version of Spiderman that I so eagerly downloaded in hopes of playing an action game on my cell phone.