Canonical introduced Project creation of a cloud smartphone developed together with cellular operator Communication Vodafone. The project is based on the use of the cloud service AnBox Cloud , allowing without binding to a specific system to run applications and play games created for the Android platform. Applications are launched in isolated containers on external servers using the AnBox Open Environment. The result of the execution is broadcast in streaming on the client system. Events from input devices, as well as information from the camera, GPS and various sensors are transmitted to the server with minimal delay.
Under the cloud smartphone, it is understood not a specific device, but any user devices on which you can recreate mobile environment at any time. Since the Android platform is running on an external server, which also produces all calculations from the device that
Only basic video decoding support.
For example, in a cloud smartphone, you can turn smart TVs, computers, wearable devices and portable techniques that can play video, but performance and resources that are not enough to perform a full Android environment. The first working prototype developed concept is scheduled to demonstrate at the MWC 2022 exhibition, which will be held from February 28 to March 3 in Barcelona.
It is noted that with the help of the proposed technology technology will be able to reduce their costs when organizing work with corporate mobile applications by reducing the cost of maintaining infrastructure and increase flexibility through the organization of launching applications as needed to be in them (on-demand), as well as raising Privacy due to the fact that the data after working with corporate programs remain on the employee’s device. Communication operators can create virtualized services on the basis of the platform for clients of their 4G, LTE and 5G networks. The project can also be used to create gaming services that make available games that make high requirements for the graphics subsystem and the amount of memory.