The Death of Smartphones. What's next?

Dying smartphones? The arrival of the original iPhone, 2007, revolutionized the way we use computing power, turning it from something that existed in an office to something we always have in hand, and we use it too many times a day (and night) .

Today, after almost a decade of drastic changes, the he has managed to reach the height of his potential. It is our constant digital companion, having merged the capabilities of the computer, the camera, the , sat-nav and more to a device on the road.

But the screen is twice as bright, shining less than another, and smartphones are shining sharply in recent years.smartphones

Smartphone innovation is starting to end. There is hardly anything else to incorporate into a device, which means adding a curved screen can be considered simply art. Our smartphones are overfilled with smart features that most of us do not even know they are, and they have never used it. In many countries the market is saturated.

The smartphone took ten years from its first release to complete.

And now what will happen?

At one point it seemed like wearables would be the next big technology. It turns out that it is very difficult to fit enough processing power and life into it in something like a smartwatch. So it probably can't become a viable alternative like a phone. Even if these two problems are overcome, the screen is never going to be big enough for us to adopt for our connection to the digital world.

This leaves the augmented and virtual reality the main candidate.

Smartphones such as Samsung's Samsung Galaxy S8 (and almost certainly the next iPhone) can already function as VR players when connected to the appropriate device.

This in itself, although it is not an autonomous use of the VR, will give consumers an idea of ​​what is going to come.

So in the future (medium term), when the idea of ​​AR / VR becomes more popular, smartglasss will make an impressive comeback. Although there is still resistance to the "glasshole" phenomenon (many would not like to wear glasses, especially when one is reading something in the lens instead of watching a conversation) it seems to be the next evolution of personal technology.smartphones

The they will come in the form of smart contact lenses or even the mind-reading technology that Facebook announced last week. THE after all, he has already talked about something similar.

Smartphones will not die completely naturally. Old technologies do not die, they just find different priority in their place.

The closest device that has changed its priority is the PC: from rapid adoption we reached the level of saturation, and then a stagnation for a long time, followed by a slow burst of innovation before letting it go home.

The next five with 10 years will be the same as the smartphone.

But all of these emerging future technologies, such as the VR, and the idea of ​​using reader sensors, pose huge questions about privacy, proper use of technology and its impact on society.

These questions have already arisen since the smart phones, such as the need to be able to locate each of us at all times, or what it means for society and our relationships with others to spend so much time interacting through our phones. We have not solved these yet.

However, with smartglass technology or even mind reading technology, which will make our relationship with technology even more familiar and easy to navigate, we will probably remember the complications of the smartphones season with nostalgia.

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  1. The iPhone never revolutionized smartphones. I had in 2005 the mio a701 Windows Phone which was Touch and here in my city they did not know what Touch means. And with an SD wifi adapter it also had internet normally. He had everything up. Conclusion iPhone was a marketing and Nothing else. And for Kosmakis to spend their money.

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