What will Smartphones be like in 100 years

Sunday, April 09, 2017 Unknown 0 Comments Category : Hardware , mobile

From everlasting batteries to screens that let you feel

If you look back 20 years in terms of phones, you're going back to the likes of the Nokia 8110, and that should tell you all you need to know about the rapid pace at which we're going - so will the jump be just as big, or even bigger, over the next ten decades?

That Nokia 8110 phone had a monochrome LCD display, and, with no touchscreen, had a keypad for a keyboard. It may have been featured in one of the scenes in The Matrix but it couldn't do much more than send and receive phone calls and text messages.

Could the phones of 2117 be as far ahead of the iOS10 as the iOS10 is from the Nokia 8110? We've spent some time gazing into the T3 crystal ball and these are the the changes we expect to see when we're unwrapping a brand new smart devices 100 years from now.

Unlimited battery power

Battery power has always been a major factor of ratings and specifications, as smart devices gets smarter, and newer technologies with the likes of neural networks, artificial intelligence, Augmented reality , virtual reality and the likes are been integrated, it calls for higher battery power for higher productivity.

Great news is that battery technologies are fast improving from nanobatteries (featuring tiny tower structures that are hundreds of times smaller than the bits in current power packs) to improved, more efficient materials (like lithium metal foil). These power technologies will remain defiant probably in 20 years. Then we continue to look past a more everlasting source of power, although research is going on and more light comes in the lines of energy harvesting and Ambient power.

Flexible Display technology

We've now got used to phones with curved edges on their displays, and you can expect this technology to improve substantially over the next ten decades.

Will we see a phone you can fold up and put in your pocket by 2117? It's hard to say, but it's almost certain that the display technology will be ready - it's just a question of whether phone manufacturers can get all the other bits and pieces to flex too. Flexible displays is continuously looked into currently, and some breakthroughs yeilded. But in decades to come we'll definitely be expecting much more than. Smartphones will be of various diversities of both screened and virtual variants.

Holographic displays

Holographic displays and communication is definitely the future of Smartphones. Holographs displaying data, in various representations , communication, 4-Dimensional surveillance . These would definitely make life much easier.

The 7-dimensional (7D movies & Motion chair & Effects & interaction gun) holographic technology is currently in use in various cinemas and in companies like Musion via a projector but have not fully been incorporated into Smartphones while retaining advanced features.

Although, various Smartphones have been produced with holograms, like the Holoflex.

Faster Networks

Most of us are just getting to grips with 4G, but 5G is already revving its engine. You probably won't get to taste its goodies until around 2020, but they're set to revolutionise the way we use phones, offering speeds up to 70 times faster than what's currently available.

Want a movie in three seconds? Done. Fancy that Spotify album but not sure if you've got time to download it? It's already happened in the time it took to read that sentence. Not only is that mind-bendingly fast, it's about ten times quicker than your old computer hard drive could even save stuff.

Streaming console-grade games to your phone will no longer have that annoying lag, so remotely playing console games on the bus will finally be a reality. And as long as the servers and websites on the other end are quick enough, browsing the web and watching streamed videos will be just as quick as looking at content stored on your phone.

It's hard to over emphasise what a difference a super-fast, ubiquitous mobile network could make - imagine having high-speed Wi-Fi all the time, wherever you go. By 2117, you won't have to imagine.

Smarter Digital assistants

Cortana

The likes of Cortana, Siri and Google Assistant already play big roles on the phones of today but it's nothing compared to the influence they'll have in 20 years time.

This really is where the innovation is going to happen over the next couple of decades, as these assistant apps become smarter and learn more and more about us. The traditional rows and columns of apps will go away to be replaced by a simplified interface that shows us what we want to see before we know we want to see it.

Siri and its rivals will be almost indistinguishable from the friends and family you talk to via your phone, and if you've seen the movie Her then you know how that might turn out. It may sound scary but it should be hugely useful.
The whole concept of the phone might go away as we use small microphones and earpieces to communicate with the cloud instead, though there's still likely to be a screen of some kind, even if it is an optional, foldable one - otherwise how else are you going to battle through the Star Wars Episode XVIII spin-off game?