3 ms·

I really hope not: "The touch-screen is a fixed element of its design; for at least the next decade, you can expect the front of every new model to be dominated

I really hope not: "The touch-screen is a fixed element of its design; for at least the next decade, you can expect the front of every new model to be dominated by a flat sheet of glass, the same as on every previous model." I disagree. I can understand why it is easy to make that assertion, but there is no imagination in that statement nor due respect for progress and advancement in technology or industrial design. For instance, as silly as this may seem right now, who is to say that for at least the next decade there will assuredly be a "front" on the device? Is it not possible /likely that within a decade front/back won't matter just like how portrait/landscape/upside-down/right-side-up do not today on iPhone and iPad? Just a thought...

WesleyJohnson 17y ago
Definitely agree with this notion. We've already seen glimpses of transparent LCDs, which if proven viable in the future could eliminate the need for a front/back as you've suggested. That or equally useful LCD's on both sides of a device. Then, of course, there are the devices we haven't even though of that may not even use screens, but instead a hologram projected out in front or something equally uncoventional. We're in exciting times, technologically.
troystribling 17y ago
Even the changes you suggest would not be as significant a difference as there was between phones before the iPhone and phones after. The basic design of the laptop has been with us for two decades with only minor changes. The the current form factor and UI architecture for the smartphone would persist is not unreasonable. The next significant departure in form factor and UI would will require technological innovations on the scale of those that led to the iPhone, namely, touch screen technology and increases in capacities for power, storage and processor for the form factor. Heads up Display technology is a possibility.
DrSprout 17y ago
Generally speaking Glass is uncomfortable to rest against your bare skin while talking. It's one of the things I miss about my flip phone, that it had some air in there. Earpieces are a bit better, but I can't stand dealing with a second battery and the battery hit you take from Bluetooth. It's really a shame you can't plug in a normal headset to these things.
- gfunk911 17y ago
  You can plug in a normal wired headset into an iPhone.
theBobMcCormick 17y ago
There's a rumor that Motorola is working on a phone with some kind of 3d imagine projector on the front. That could definitely shake up the design of future phones if it's true. http://androidandme.com/2010/04/news/will-motorolas-next-android-phone-offer-3d/ http://androidandme.com/2010/04/news/will-motorolas-next-and...

WesleyJohnson 17y ago

Definitely agree with this notion. We've already seen glimpses of transparent LCDs, which if proven viable in the future could eliminate the need for a front/back as you've suggested. That or equally useful LCD's on both sides of a device. Then, of course, there are the devices we haven't even though of that may not even use screens, but instead a hologram projected out in front or something equally uncoventional. We're in exciting times, technologically.

troystribling 17y ago

Even the changes you suggest would not be as significant a difference as there was between phones before the iPhone and phones after. The basic design of the laptop has been with us for two decades with only minor changes. The the current form factor and UI architecture for the smartphone would persist is not unreasonable. The next significant departure in form factor and UI would will require technological innovations on the scale of those that led to the iPhone, namely, touch screen technology and increases in capacities for power, storage and processor for the form factor. Heads up Display technology is a possibility.

DrSprout 17y ago

Generally speaking Glass is uncomfortable to rest against your bare skin while talking. It's one of the things I miss about my flip phone, that it had some air in there. Earpieces are a bit better, but I can't stand dealing with a second battery and the battery hit you take from Bluetooth. It's really a shame you can't plug in a normal headset to these things.

gfunk911 17y ago
You can plug in a normal wired headset into an iPhone.

theBobMcCormick 17y ago

There's a rumor that Motorola is working on a phone with some kind of 3d imagine projector on the front. That could definitely shake up the design of future phones if it's true. http://androidandme.com/2010/04/news/will-motorolas-next-android-phone-offer-3d/ http://androidandme.com/2010/04/news/will-motorolas-next-and...