Events Innovation Festival. Follow us:. By Alissa Walker 2 minute Read. Design Co. Design Forget wind turbines. Start harnessing the tides for energy Co. Design Why fashion brands are collaborating with dead midcentury architects Co. Design The brilliant ways big business is pushing its climate agenda during COP Obviously, there would be a limit to how far you can stretch a device. If that limit was 50 percent of the size of a phone, for example, it would mean you could transform a 6-inch display into a 9-inch one.
Samsung announced a prototype of a stretchable display in which can be dented up to 12mm without causing damage — shown in the image above.
Engineering researchers at Michigan State University have also developed the first stretchable integrated circuit and see a future for stretchable electronics. In addition to making phones larger or smaller, stretchable displays would also add a new dimension to things like gaming and watching videos.
Imagine playing a first-person shooter game and the display flexing out while someone is shooting at you — the experience could be a lot more immersive. Phones come in a variety of colors and choosing the best one can often be a struggle. Red, green, or purple colorways stand out more, but can give devices a toyish, less professional look.
With smartphones of the future, you may not have to choose anymore. Imagine a phone with a completely transparent back made from a glass-like material that fully absorbs light. The device would have one or more LED lights inside, the color of which you could change in the settings of the phone or maybe with your mind! When you choose orange, the entire back cover would completely absorb the color of the light and look exactly the same, almost as if it were painted on.
The feature could also have a mode to change the color automatically on a daily basis. With a few LED lights inside properly positioned, you could also create gradient colors, like what the Huawei P30 Pro has. Unlike glass phones today, it would also be resistant to fingerprints.
It also lets me read outside, under direct sunlight. This is more or less impossible with OLED displays. The smartphones of the future I envision would combine OLED and e-ink technology into one, likely killing dedicated e-readers. With a simple tap in the settings, you could transform an OLED display into an e-ink screen for reading books, articles, and various documents without all that light shining into your face.
An e-ink display is also a lot less power hungry, which could mean longer battery life. Unfortunately, something like this is impossible at this point. Smartphones of the future may not be smartphones at all. These devices may take on a whole new form factor, which will enable us to perform the same tasks as smartphones do today — and more. I see a future where smartphones in their current form get replaced by what look like regular glasses. My version of futuristic glasses would let you make and receive calls.
These days, they do so much more than simply keep us connected. We can now carry out everyday tasks with ease, such as:. Back in , it would have been hard to believe that mobile phones would evolve so much and provide us with so many services. Mobile phones have been in development since the late 60s, and throughout the 70s.
But these were too hefty to be considered truly mobile, thus confined to cars — requiring the engine to be running.
As such, the evolution of mobile phones truly began with the Motorola DynaTAC x as it was completely portable, despite weighing in at almost 1 kg and measuring a colossal 30cm in length with a thickness of 9cm. This much more portable device was designed to fit inside a shirt pocket.
This was the first phone to feature a flip open design, so that no buttons were pressed when not in use. Measuring about 22cm in length when flipped open , the x was much smaller than its predecessor, and weighed less than half as much. Whilst Motorola dominated the early mobile phone landscape, Finnish company Nokia joined the mobile phone evolution, coming into prominence in the early s. In they released the Nokia , which was the first GSM phone, using digital networks rather than analogue.
This allowed the use of SMS text messaging, although this would not catch on in a big way for another few years. With features such as a dual line display and 99 contact storage, the Nokia was at the forefront of the evolution of mobile phone technology.
Great strides were made throughout the 90s, and Nokia continued to acquire market share…. In , they released the , a phone that would become popular due to its slide down front case and appearance in the film The Matrix. Weighing only g, and just under 6 inches long, this phone represented a wave of mobiles that were practical in their weight and dimensions.
With Nokia leading the way, the next 5 years would spawn many popular models:. These models, released from — , introduced the world to customisable appearances, ringtones and games. Mobile phones had now evolved to be very desirable gadgets, especially amongst teenagers. Specific features of mobile phones made them like fashion accessories, including:.
You could see notifications without having to flip the phone open. Towards the end of , we've seen a few smartphones use two front-facers, one to take a picture and a secondary snapper for depth sensing, for more accurate background blur.
Many phones are dropping the 3. More uncertain is the presence of a USB port to plug your phone into a computer or charger. In that way, it echoes the use of wireless headphones, and in portless smartphones could be the new normal. No, in fact, the real change will likely be megapixel count — at the end of the highest resolution in a smartphone is MP in the Xiaomi Mi Note 10 , but it looks like a number of phones in are gearing up to match that.
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