{"id":16597,"date":"2020-02-13T15:40:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T10:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/?p=16597"},"modified":"2024-03-26T16:26:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T10:56:54","slug":"how-will-smartphones-look-like-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/gadgets\/how-will-smartphones-look-like-in-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"How will Smartphones Look Like in the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Going back to the history of smartphones, its development was enabled by several key technological advances. The rapid scaling and miniaturization of MOS transistors down to sub-micron levels during the 1990s\u20132000s paved the way for building portable smart devices like smartphones, consequently allowing the transition from analog to faster digital wireless mobile networks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Then came the lithium-ion battery, an indispensable energy source enabling long battery life which was invented in the 1980s and commercialized in 1991. The next wave was led by more mature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/development\/big-software-development-trends-of-2019-should-you-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">software platforms<\/a> that allowed mobile device ecosystems to develop independently of data providers.<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- Home page 728x90 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 728px; height: 90px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9864771813712812\" data-ad-slot=\"3152971286\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\n<strong>The rise of first phones<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Back in Japanese wireless provider NTT DoCoMo launched a new mobile internet platform called i-mode. It provided data transmission speeds up to 9.6 kilobits per second, and access web services available through the platform such as online shopping.The company\u2019s i-mode used cHTML, a language which restricted some aspects of traditional HTML in favor of increasing data speed for the devices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Eventually, the rise of i-mode helped NTT DoCoMo accumulate an estimated 40 million subscribers by the end of 2001, and ranked first in market capitalization in Japan and second globally. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Gradually, the Japanese cell phones rose their global standards and trends where they offered other forms of advanced services and smartphone-like functionality, specifically tailored to the Japanese market, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/mobile-apps\/what-is-a-mobile-wallet-app-and-how-does-it-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mobile payments<\/a> and shopping, near-field communication (NFC) allowing mobile wallet functionality to replace smart cards for transit fares, loyalty cards, identity cards, event tickets, coupons, money transfer, etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">It also featured downloadable content like musical ringtones, games, and comics, and 1seg mobile television. They still used custom firmware but did not feature standardized mobile operating systems designed to cater to third-party application development.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"seethis_lik\"><span>Also read:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/top-10\/top-10-best-software-companies-in-india\/\">Top 10 Best Software Companies in India<\/a><\/span>\n<strong>The development lifecycle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Outside of the U.S. and Japan, Nokia was one company which was seeing success with its smartphones based on Symbian operating system, the most popular smartphone OS in Europe during the middle to late 2000s.\u00a0 Until 2010, Symbian remained the world&#8217;s most widely used smartphone operating system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Eventually came the advancements in form factor and operating systems. Then came the early advancements in camera, followed by advancements in display. After that it was a chain of dominos for developments in the smartphone ecosystem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">2011:- f<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">irst smartphone with a fingerprint reader was the Motorola Atrix 4G in 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">2012:- Samsung introduced the Galaxy S3 with retrofittable wireless charging and pop-up video playback.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">2013:- In October of 2013, Motorola Mobility announced Project Ara which was a concept for a modular smartphone platform allowing users to customize and upgrade their phones with add-on modules which could be attached magnetically to a frame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">2014:- Microsoft unveiled functionality for its Windows 10 operating system for phones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">2015:- Samsung and LG were the \u201clast standing\u201d manufacturers to offer flagship devices with user-replaceable batteries<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">2016:- Focus on virtual reality and augmented reality experiences catered towards smartphones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">2018:- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/future\/future-of-mobile-phones-in-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smartphones<\/a> with fingerprint readers embedded within OLED displays were announced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">2019:- A vast number of smartphones featured more than one camera, are waterproof with IP67 and IP68 ratings, and unlock with facial recognition or fingerprint scanners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2020 &amp; Beyond<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"seethis_lik\"><span>Also read:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/review\/how-to-check-body-temperature-with-iphone\/\">How To Check Body Temperature With iPhone?<\/a><\/span>\n<b>OTA Charging<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">A company called Energous is working on a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wireless-charging-energous-wattup-mid-field-transmitter-825842\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">technology<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"> where one will be able to charge devices over the air. You can simply place your phone within three feet of the WattUp Mid Field transmitter and it will start charging right away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Change colors when you want<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Future could be adorned with phones where imagine a phone that has an entirely transparent back made from a glass-like material which is made in a way that it completely absorbs light. It would have one or more LED lights inside, where you could change its color in the settings of the phone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Stretchable and Foldable displays<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">The next big thing in display technology is the flexible displays. There already are a handful of foldable phones like the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Royole FlexPai<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">, Samsung Galaxy Fold, and Huawei Mate X. Pertaining to this development, it may lead to a future where we may have stretchable phones. Rather than unfolding a device, in future, you would stretch it out to increase its size, just like a rubber band.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Work is already going on in the world of stretchable displays. Back in 2017, engineering researchers at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/msutoday.msu.edu\/news\/2017\/is-a-stretchable-smart-tablet-in-our-future\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Michigan State University had developed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"> the first stretchable integrated circuit which has been made entirely using an inkjet printer, raising the possibility of inexpensive mass production of smart fabric.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"seethis_lik\"><span>Also read:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/top-10\/the-top-10-in-demand-tech-skills-you-need-to-have-in-2021\/\">The Top 10 In-Demand Tech Skills you need to have in 2021<\/a><\/span>\n<h2>Endnotes<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">When the hardware components undergo a change, proportionally so does the software components. The development and type of apps also undergo a change. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">The process of Android and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiddenbrains.com\/ios-application-development.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iOS application development<\/a> undergo a change. The demand and supply for type of apps also change. In the world of technology, one small factor affects every single factor intertwined with it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going back to the history of smartphones, its development was enabled by several key technological advances. 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