As a child, I can recollect walking into a Verizon Wireless store to see the 1st phone with an in-built color LCD, though it probably wasn't the 1st on the market. It was the first I had ever seen in real life, and I was absolutely shocked. At the time, I could not understand how a colour LCD (the size of a postage stamp) would be handy or required on a cell phone. Right after that, I recollect another trip to the same store months or years on to witness my first camera phone. I can remember thinking the idea was abosolutely laughable. Now, I can not imagine my existence without my smartphone and its diverse features that once existed as stand-alone, end-user products, but what's on the horizon now? What is the future of smartphones?
Obviously, it's difficult for anyone to predict the future. Any idea, discovery or invention has the ability to derail our entire understanding of the planet, our work habits, our tools and our life styles. Of course, we'll try and consider these unknown variables in our equation.
First, the bezel will slowly disappear. For the uninformed, the bezel is the part of the phone case that holds and surrounds the LCD. In 1 or 2 years, your phone's display will reach out to the sides the case. We'll probably use pills, smartphones and at last notebooks like this for quite some time.
As a society, we'll also learn how to have interaction with our phones without counting only on the touchscreen display and/or keyboard. Our voices are turning into the best way to have interaction with our phones now, and this may continue till it seems ludicrous to command your phone any other way unless, of course, you're playing a game or using an app that requires the attention of your eye balls. This can also extend to the desk and mobile workstation.
On the topic of workstations, at last the "workstation" will simply be a display dock that connects with your smartphone, tablet or notebook. You may dock your device into the "workstation", complete your work, browse the web, do your thing, and then you may take your computer with you when it is time to bounce. It will be unnecessary to tote around flash cards and mobile HDDs because your entire PC will live in your pocket. Today, youngsters grow up with iPads and iPhones as their first PCs, so there's no reason to think these children will flock to our old technical habits when they grow up. My two-year-old daughter's iPod Touch is equivalent to my old Windows 95 box hooked up to a CRT monitor.
Eventually, our phones will come fitted out with built in projectors. It sounds laughable, but we already have the technology to produce a viable consumer smartphone with a built in projector. What's the hold up, you ask? As is often the case in a capatalistic society, technical and scientific progress must be accompanied by a company that will turn it into a mainstream idea. When an able, market-shaping company steps in to properly design, market and support such a machine this will happen. And at some specific point those in-built projectors will not need a wall to operate , manufacturing 2D "displays" and 3D graphics out of thin air (like R2-D2's in-built projector from Star Wars: A New Hope).
Obviously, it's difficult for anyone to predict the future. Any idea, discovery or invention has the ability to derail our entire understanding of the planet, our work habits, our tools and our life styles. Of course, we'll try and consider these unknown variables in our equation.
First, the bezel will slowly disappear. For the uninformed, the bezel is the part of the phone case that holds and surrounds the LCD. In 1 or 2 years, your phone's display will reach out to the sides the case. We'll probably use pills, smartphones and at last notebooks like this for quite some time.
As a society, we'll also learn how to have interaction with our phones without counting only on the touchscreen display and/or keyboard. Our voices are turning into the best way to have interaction with our phones now, and this may continue till it seems ludicrous to command your phone any other way unless, of course, you're playing a game or using an app that requires the attention of your eye balls. This can also extend to the desk and mobile workstation.
On the topic of workstations, at last the "workstation" will simply be a display dock that connects with your smartphone, tablet or notebook. You may dock your device into the "workstation", complete your work, browse the web, do your thing, and then you may take your computer with you when it is time to bounce. It will be unnecessary to tote around flash cards and mobile HDDs because your entire PC will live in your pocket. Today, youngsters grow up with iPads and iPhones as their first PCs, so there's no reason to think these children will flock to our old technical habits when they grow up. My two-year-old daughter's iPod Touch is equivalent to my old Windows 95 box hooked up to a CRT monitor.
Eventually, our phones will come fitted out with built in projectors. It sounds laughable, but we already have the technology to produce a viable consumer smartphone with a built in projector. What's the hold up, you ask? As is often the case in a capatalistic society, technical and scientific progress must be accompanied by a company that will turn it into a mainstream idea. When an able, market-shaping company steps in to properly design, market and support such a machine this will happen. And at some specific point those in-built projectors will not need a wall to operate , manufacturing 2D "displays" and 3D graphics out of thin air (like R2-D2's in-built projector from Star Wars: A New Hope).
About the Author:
Fausto Mendez is the editor of ReleaseDates.co, a free website and subscription service that updates its readers only about the gadgets and brands they wish to understand about.
