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Ask HN: When do you think smartphones will become obsolete?
- askafriend 7y agoIt'll get unbundled into AirPods + Watch + Glasses and maybe further down the line Brain Implants will come into the mix. It won't be going away for a long time though. It's here to stay a while.
- p1esk 7y agoYes, I stopped carrying my iPhone with me when I bought Watch 3 cellular 2 years ago. The only thing I miss is a camera.
- croo 7y agoNever. A better question is how will smartphones evolve. Phones are humanity's magic crystals which enables everyone to send instant communication channel to anyone else and tap in the greatest common knowledge base ever. I don't think there is a reasonable future without everyone having his own personal device for this function. Maybe it won't called a "smartphone" but it will provide these functions.
- Rannath 7y agoA smart phone is just a programmable computer welded to a cell phone, that's here to stay. So I'm going to answer what I think your real question is: "When will smartphones change form factor?" The current form factor is a best-we-have compromise between ease of use, and utility. I think the next big thing will be the decoupling of utility and ease of use. AR/3D gesture tech in a discrete google glass-like thing maybe.
- mortivore 7y agoWhen a better(greater functionality, easier to use, etc.) convergence device becomes available.
- Raed667 7y agoWhen glasses with display become usable.
- imhoguy 7y agoWhen any surface you look at or touch will interact with you. There will be no need to put anything in pockets.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 7y agoWhen UI is so slow and so full of useless notifications that you can't use it to answer quick questions.
- hamid_ra 7y agoWhen AR (already happening) and human brain/AI symbiosis happens!
- buboard 7y agoBooks never became obsolete. It s just the physicality of it. Having something in your hands allows you to focus. Or else, if the screen was your glasses, what would you do with your hands?
- zer0sugar 7y agoPossibly before the neural implants if IT becomes so ubiquitous that there's no need to carry around a phone.