Today’s best phones all share one big selling point: gluttonous capacity. Nokia’s N95 8GB, the N81 8GB and even the Apple’s dastardly iPhone all pride themselves on packing oodles of space to house music, games, videos and photos. But what if mobiles could progress to a point where they simply didn’t need storage? That’s the future, as promised by mobile sharing software. Huzzah!

In the next few years the mobile-carrying public will all pack phones with constant data connections, keeping them in touch with home servers, packed with every bit of data they could ever need.

With entire libraries of movies and music on tap, there could soon be no logical reason for mobile customers to stump up the cash for a phone with lots of storage space, and less reason for manufacturers to include it in the first place.

Services such as SoonR, Orb and Nokia’s newly-aquired Avvenu.com already let you tap into your home computer’s hard disk from a mobile anywhere in the world. The current limitations are simply the size and resolution of mobile screens, and the speed of the data connection carrying all the files.

At the moment most mobile sharing services remain the preserve of those with gigantic photo libraries, and forgetful business types. The bandwidth required to shovel music and photos around either isn’t always available, or can be expensive. But the opportunities here are astounding. Once mobile Internet speeds begin to climb without taking data charges with them, we’ll be in business. And imagine the phones that’ll be available without the worry of including storage – thinner, with better battery life and much cheaper than ever before.

Pretty soon the mobile in your pocket will be able to call up any piece of information from a server as quickly and smoothly as if it were already stored on the device itself. As soon as that day arrives, we’ll all have to stop boasting about the capacity of our handsets and find something new to fixate on.