Top 5 Smartphone Features To Be Improved In The Near Future

Note: This is a guest post written by Gabriela J

People always seek new ways to optimize their smartphone experience. Virtually every few years, smartphone developers come up with all sorts of cool ideas. That’s why people are often looking forward for the latest and the coolest gadget because they are already anticipating such developments in the future.

The following list is composed of five features that smartphone users would love to have in their smartphones, in the near future. But before you check out these cool features that would make your smartphones even smarter, cease this moment and take a look at your phone—a long hard look at it because not very long from now, the very phone that you are holding in your hands will be a completely different phone in the near future.

Cell phones evolved virtually in just a blink of an eye, especially now that the computer has been revolutionized in leaps and bounds, so are our smartphones or should we call them now, our “mini-computers.” Essentially, it was the iPhone that entirely changed the game—transforming the way we connect to the world at a whole new technologically advanced level. Today, the buttons are slowly obscured by the large full touchscreen screen without keypads, a concept initiated by Apple. So if these mobile transformations took place within only a few years, can you imagine how smartphones will turn out to be a few years down the road?

You are now probably ready to check out these five things you would possibly want on your smartphone in the not so distant future. So here they are:

The screen

iPhone 5

Granted the unbelievable quality of today’s mobile screens, resolution will not anymore be a marketing point in the near future. The concept behind the iPhone’s “Retina display” is that the iPhone screen will become even sharper than our eyes can see. The resolution had raised its grounds as screens have gotten better dramatically. Nevertheless, present capacitive screens have one main flaw—they cannot translate touch quality, although they remain pretty accurate as well as skillful in processing a number of inputs at one time.

The Camera

Smartphones have fundamentally bumped off the point-and-shoot digital cams. With today’s smartphone sensors going from 5 to 12 megapixels as well as recording video at complete 1080p HD, carrying around a digital camera will seem like an extra effort since you have with you an adequate-featured device that can do more than just take pictures.  In addition, smartphones cams are linked with the most remarkable effects and filters and are utterly social—take Instagram for example. The technology is already there.  It’s just a matter of scaling it down and optimizing it for mobile devices.

Voice Control

It is evident that the human voice is the most natural, effective and accurate tool for communication and crossing the points in this world. Just think about the complex biological make-up of a newborn baby. It’s pre-designed to communicate with sound long before it develops physical control or dexterity. Even more is that many of us can hear a tone and mimic the precise regularity by the use of our own voice, without practicing.

Technology-wise, we have already seen the leverage of voice control with iPhone’s Siri. Instead of just depending on the command, Siri uses “natural speech”- an approach where it  understands syntax and diction in similar ways humans do, instead of just responding to the arrangement of the sound wave like the more old-fashioned systems do. Despite the fact that Siri is a breakthrough in the smartphone technology, and conceived as great among other things, it is still an infant and has a large area to develop. Even Apple Company recognizes this fact. In the near future, smartphone users will be seeing more of the Voice Control growth as for now they just have to bask themselves on whatever their phones offer because as mentioned above, it won’t be long until they kiss the phones in their pockets good-bye.

Projector

For the past years, hearing about video projectors being a part of our smartphone package is not new to us. Just recently, Texas Instruments has dramatically weighed down its digital Light Projection technology into a so called “Pico Projectors” which only gauges a few millimeters in height and width. Unknown to many people, this technology is not brand new and arrived in our smartphones in 2009. Yet, the devices were then unwieldy, experienced poor battery life and unsurprisingly, not able to catch on.

One of the setbacks of keeping this from happening is that we anticipate thinner phones as Pico projectors have radically shrunk and they have been outperformed by the phones presumed to house them. And the tinier the projectors become, the less light it puts out. As how things presumably would work, there is always a solution to every problem as MicroVision had invented a laser-based Pico Projector which offers extra luminance in a smaller bundle. And laser, essentially is a concentrated light and no matter where you beam from, rest assured the image remains in focus

Inter-device communication

Photo credit: Br3nda / Foter / CC BY-NC-SA

The four features we just talked about are mainly on how our smartphones will interact with us and us with them. In this juncture, we will talk about how smartphones interact with each other. Currently, smartphones interact with each other through systems such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. One of the limitations of Wi-Fi, however is the need of a Wi-Fi router. Without it, your phone is incapacitated to connect with other devices. Good thing inventions such as Wi-Fi direct has arrived which allows the devices to get connected and transfer large quantities of data no need of transitional wireless network, like for example NFC.

In a few years down the road, these features will be reachable. It’s not that they still have to be created from scratch; they already exist only a little tweaking is required. For smartphone fanatics out there, it’s a matter of time until all these will be realized, so you better make the most of the phones you have now.

Note: This guest post was written by Gabriela, a tech enthusiast, passionate about the mobile industry and gadgets. She’s a technology entrepreneur, co-founder of UnlockUnit.com.

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