Never. A better question is how will smartphones evolve. Phones are humanity's magic crystals which enables everyone to send instant communication channel to a

Never. 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.