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It's not unreasonable to think about 10, 20 or even 30 years with mostly incremental improvements and no ground-breaking changes in both smartphones and smartwa
by bigato 10y ago
It's not unreasonable to think about 10, 20 or even 30 years with mostly incremental improvements and no ground-breaking changes in both smartphones and smartwatches. I list some examples below. Several of them are already under development, and some are already available but just not cheap yet.
- Batteries that can be fully charged in 5 minutes;
- Autonomy to go for a month without a charge, achieved by the combinations of new technologies in batteries, screens, chips and better software;
- Scratch and shock resistant screens that can be equally visible on daylight and at night, maybe by working like and colored e-reader screen when there's enough ambient light available, thus making reading more comfortable;
- Some kind of battery charging technology that improves over the awful usb connections that we have nowadays, whose cable connectors don't last much;
- Better cameras that rival today's DSLR. There are some experiences going on using several small combined cheap sensors in a single smartphone to achieve results in the DSLR range;
- Cheap and fast disk storage over say, 10 TB, as fast as RAM;
- Cheap and fast data connection at any location of the planet. Like streaming HD netflix in your tent in the middle of a blizzard in Antartida;
- High quality, small, wireless earphones whose batteries last for a week without recharging;
- Simpler, faster and more efficient development plataforms;
... And I'm sure you can add a few more. Each of these are changes that separately would not be considered exactly ground-breaking, but all of them together could bring mobile computing to a whole new level.
- untoreh 10y agowhen I think about smartphone innovation I generally think about all the level of automation that could be done with for example tasker for android, if only smartphones could pull sensors data and substantially eliminate overheating, we could have a seamless experience with very little interaction needed, probably not even touch inputs. Smartphones today are sleeping most of the time, they are not dumb, but very much lazy. The benchmarks war has done a ton of harm...look! this device hits 200k on this benchmark, too bad battery dies after 3hours if you keep that up, btw you might also feel an uncomfortable heat in your hands...