The Near Future of Mobile Phones (SAMSUNG)
Now that, the galaxy s4 is out, and it is the fastest phone ever, I am left wondering what the future trend for mobile phones is going to be. Samsung has played out pretty much everything in the market, it has the biggest phones, the lightest phones, the fastest phones, the phone with the best camera on a mobile device and arguably phones with the best displays. This leaves other phone manufacturers with no option but to up their game and make phones that will at best, compete with Samsung flagship models. The fact that Samsung keeps upgrading their phones to unimaginable levels presents many advantages and some disadvantages too. The advantages are clear and truly welcome. No one minds having a phone with the best screen, 8 cores for unrivalled processing power and the best camera. The problem with this is that Samsung does not make it easy for their competitors and I am pressed to say, even themselves to survive in the industry. Thanks to the awesome Galaxy S4, it is now quite difficult to predict what the galaxy s5 will have in terms of hardware. Well this article seeks to examine the mobile phone industry a year from now, it offers a few insights on what to expect and what to forget about, what may be coming into the market soon and what may not be able to make it. Sit back, relax and get a glimpse into the future through my eyes.
Phones have been getting bigger and bigger with time. I remember a time when a small phone was considered the most advanced, well truthfully, this is still true, the components have continued to shrink as two things increase in size, the screen and the battery. Therefore, it is true, small is still very much preferable over big in the tech world, but there are things that are just better of big like the screen and the battery. The screen has to be big so as to display more on a mobile device, and the battery has to be big so as to hold more juice to run the device. Therefore, the future of the mobile phone is still geared towards bigger screens and batteries. This is until technology evolves to the point where it is possible to project images in place of a fixed display for the screen and get alternative sources of power to replace lithium ion/ cadmium batteries. Samsung has managed to blur the line between a phone and a tablet, but in my opinion, 5 inches is the perfect size for a phone, anything bigger should be known by a different name (ISO should consider establishing a working definition of a mobile phone/cell phone to include the maximum and minimum dimensions)
Well the screen sector is pretty much covered by now. With phone manufacturers making displays with a PPI of 441, increasing this would not make much sense. The next frontier in mobile displays is tending towards 3D. I do not mean that people will have to buy 3D glasses to use their mobile phones, there is something known as no glasses 3D which will very soon find its way to mobile devices. This may happen as early as next year. Currently no glasses 3D is in its late stages of development, Dolby already has a TV set to display with this technology. I think it will be easier to roll out no glasses 3D for multiple screen sizes in no less than 5 months from now. Therefore, it is safe to conclude that the PPI war is over, the industry is switching over to 3D mobile phones.
Well, I do not think we are going to see much of a change in this sector. This is because Samsung is already pushing too far with their Octa 8 processor. A mobile phone with 8 physical processor cores is certainly no joke. It means that other phone manufacturers will have to borrow the same from Samsung at which point Samsung will already have released something new. Samsung will always be at the forefront of technology. This is because it makes most of the components used in other mobile phone manufacturers including Apple.
Samsung seems to have settled in this sector. Personally, I do not like the curved shape of the galaxy s3 and s4, I am a great fan of the shape on the galaxy s and s2. I hope the galaxy s5 will go back to triangle shaped phones which makes more sense to me and looks better. However, people do not seem to mind the curved shape, so I guess it is going to be here for a while.
Reading this article the best thing you can pick from it is that very soon, we are going to have no glasses 3D on mobile phones. All other internal and externals will most likely remain the same. Forget about PPI and megapixels, the in thing in the mobile phone industry, is going to be whether it's 3D enabled or not. Give it a year and let’s see whether I was right or wrong.
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