Since
the past 30 years, the first mobile phone appeared in the market, we have seen
its development from a large hard black color like box, something that has a
walkie-talkie appearance, into a super slim mini-computer, with a very stylish
and mesmerizing look.
Mobile phones have across all bounds and they can serve
you the way you want them to do. The coming generations will witness new
innovative transformations of your handset that will simply leave you
spell-bound. You will be astonished by the speed it is set to change in the
following decades. Let us have a glimpse what will your handset do in the years
ahead.
1-2
years
Do you recall the first look of mobile? Pretty
ugly right? But it was reliable as it was capable of withstanding any sorts of
bashing and smashing. How much you try to bash-smash-crash-scratch it, it would
never break. They were waterproof and made out of tougher and harder resistant
material. Manufactures now look forward to using scratch, shatter and
waterproof glasses, which are indestructible and can regain their original
shape after being bashed. Customers can buy a set depending on their service
and purposes with the birth of modular mobile phones in the market. Of course,
the phone will have all those features which they wish to buy. Moreover the
customers can order his phone which will exactly match his choices, because the
customer can decide from beforehand how will his phone look like and how it is
to be featured.
3-5
years
People
remain glued to their seats and spend more time with their cellphones other
than any other gadgets. With the screens getting bigger and brighter
day-to-day, they aspire to see a high resolution cinema-quality, something like
full 4K screens right in the palms of their hands. With wireless mobile
network, it will be efficient to download a high-definition movie within just
30 seconds! Hold on, 4G browsing on your set will be pretty easy and faster!
Everything from your apps to media and entertainment can be accessed from the
cloud within seconds. The camera will be able to do far more than just
capturing a selfie or a 'groupfie. Your environment can be detected and
identified by using 3D technology of wide lenses and sensors. For example, you
can recheck your snaps and favourite albums.
6-10
years
In
the coming 6-10 years, you won’t use both tablet and mobile. Even you don’t
have to decide on the size of the screen. The fabled foldable mobile is flooded
in the market , but the high conductive, super strong material named graphite
will work better with this. Since the past 10 years, we have seen mobiles that
can change its shape to suit our needs. You can change your screen into
different sizes, depending on the amount of space you need for each activities,
like you need more space for browsing and comparatively lesser space for
calling or texting.
The Human Media Lab at Queen’s University, Canada have
already manufactured a flexible, foldable, bendable and unbreakable handset. In
the future, we can see our set running for 20 years on a single charger! A team
at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore has designed a titanium dioxide
gel that can store lithium ions in nanostructure. The heat and sweat generated
from our body can be transformed into electricity, which can charge our phones!
Amazing right?! Piezoelectricity can transform our body movements into
electricity, so that we can walk and charge!
10-15
years
We
must have seen in many science fiction movies holographic floating displays
bursting out of our mobile phones in the future. Certainly they aren’t wrong. The
‘Quantum Photonic Imager’ of a 3D screen is a tic-tac sized projector unit that
can produce beam of high-resolution image into something open-like unit.
Technology in the nearer future will reach to a peak where we are fully
interactive with the floating screen.
We can watch players playing in front of
us, play games in a different atmosphere! Wearable technology is already trying
its best to bridge the gap of necessity of carrying a cell phone in our
pockets. New smart watches and smart glasses operated by verbal commands will
become the primary communicating device. We are about to step to a time where
the mobile phones will simply vanish away, similar like the way hardware items
of MP3 Players, wallets sat navs are evaporated by the smartphones. Are you
thinking where’s the screen gone? Well, it could be displayed on glasses lenses
or a holographic projector. ‘How would you take a selfie?’ will definitely be
your next question.
20-30
years
In
the next twenty years, our generation will mock at the way once we had hold and
used a mobile phone, much like the way we laugh at the first ‘serious-type look’
mobile phone. Going beyond the wearable's, a smart stylish contact lens would
display messages, web pages, directions and videos right in front of your
retina. A lens with basic computer circuits is currently being tested, which
contains sensors to alert the diabetics. We will witness highly sophisticated
operating systems that we can talk to like another human.
Final
Conclusion
When
the technology has the potential to build a robot, it is possible to fit the computing
circuital components on a contact lens. If our mobile phones can manipulate and
tell us when to get up and get ready for work, when to leave office and catch
up the next train, when is our dearest pals birthday, warn us about how many
calories are in that food before eating it, can you imagine what would be our
life like?!
We can converse with the OS itself and consider their judgement before coming up to any decision. You don’t have to decide anything, neither do
you have to apply your brains. We would be so machine-oriented! You won’t even
look out of your window to see if its sunny or raining, before that you will
have the full weather report! We would be so much dependent on the technology
that we will forget to make our own decisions. Few might find this absurd, but
techiemaniacs can’t wait for this!
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