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#63553 29-Jun-2010 19:04

Five years ago I was using a Motorola mobile that I thought was great. Then I got a Nokia 5800 XM 15 months ago and thought that was really cool – including camera, mp3 and video player, turn by turn GPS, web browsing, Wi-Fi, email, images/mp3 music ring tones associated with different contacts, and so on.

Recently I got a cutting-edge Android 2.1 phone and I am absolutely blown away by it. Have had it less than a week so I am still learning how to really use the OS. The phone doesn’t really do a lot more than the 5800 but the slick grace and style with which it does those things I find truly amazing.

Given how sophisticated my new phone is, it has made me think – what on earth are mobile phones going to be like, and what stuff will they do in, say, five or ten years time? I guess it partly comes down to how much they really need to do – future phones could do all the today stuff but maybe with even more sophistication – I can’t really imagine that. Or they could do new stuff - pico projectors are already here. Would we need a phone with a built-in pico printer? 3D gaming and 3D images of contacts? 3D video camera? Phones hard-wired into our cortex that are thought controlled?

I’m not sure I really have enough wit, imagination or techie nous to answer my own question properly so I would love to hear the views of those who do.

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#346461 29-Jun-2010 19:53

When telcos launched GPRS, it was a revolution... An "always on" packet switched mobile data network with lots of possibilities. Obviously they all jumped at the opportunity of thinking "what mobile phones will be in the future".

Then 3G was born. All the crazy ideas, everything they thought a handset could be and do came true - in their dreams and advertising movies.

I will put a couple of old 3G ads I have in my "library" here. These are about ten years old now (or just a bit more):

Of course 3G didn't make any of this possible - but close...

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#346468 29-Jun-2010 20:04

eracode:
Given how sophisticated my new phone is, it has made me think – what on earth are mobile phones going to be like, and what stuff will they do in, say, five or ten years time?

My vote goes for communicating with Starships in orbit - Beam me up Scotty!

Or if you want to do it now

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#346471 29-Jun-2010 20:25

Well, 2nd one is totally doable, if you're rich. (Ie can afford the traffic!)

I had some friends that did a live ustream from a convention via their cellphone camera recently..

Also Luke from Epic has livestreamed some beer events from his iphone before.

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#346477 29-Jun-2010 20:42

kyhwana2: Well, 2nd one is totally doable, if you're rich. (Ie can afford the traffic!)

I had some friends that did a live ustream from a convention via their cellphone camera recently..

Also Luke from Epic has livestreamed some beer events from his iphone before.

Bugger the phones of the future, you know Luke from Epic!!!!!!!

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#346483 29-Jun-2010 20:52

eracode:

Given how sophisticated my new phone is, it has made me think – what on earth are mobile phones going to be like, and what stuff will they do in, say, five or ten years time? I guess it partly comes down to how much they really need to do – future phones could do all the today stuff but maybe with even more sophistication – I can’t really imagine that. Or they could do new stuff - pico projectors are already here. Would we need a phone with a built-in pico printer? 3D gaming and 3D images of contacts? 3D video camera? Phones hard-wired into our cortex that are thought controlled?

I’m not sure I really have enough wit, imagination or techie nous to answer my own question properly so I would love to hear the views of those who do.

I'm thinking phones are effectively handheld computers equivalent with low-end laptops. They will get faster, but their utility for many things is limited somewhat by the small size.

But if the phone could project a workplace / desktop image - including keyboard - onto a flat surface, then the size limitation would be overcome. We'll be sticking with keyboards/pads for a while as they are more private than using one's voice. No one wants to hear me dictating emails and I don't want them hearing me doing it either.

But if the phone could read my mind...and I could edit what it captured....then that would be best of all. But then we'd all have to wear tin hats so the phones of the people around us couldn't read our minds, too......or steal our dreams.

I wonder if there will be a better way to enter data than a keyboard or voice. Once we crack that, the design limitations of the phone and computer evaporate.

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#346505 29-Jun-2010 22:00

kiwitrc:
Bugger the phones of the future, you know Luke from Epic!!!!!!!

Haha.. Well, I don't know him that well. I've him a few times.
I guess I know him well enough that when he did the epic stout "opening" at House here in Hamilton, I managed to score a bottle (unlabelled etc) of oak aged armageddon about a month before it went on sale. ;)

I do however know a local guy who's a big homebrewer that knows Luke pretty well.

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#346514 29-Jun-2010 22:27

I want a phone like what Tony Stark has in Iron Man 2 hehe.

Probably not that far off I think but I still thought it was amaaziiing :D

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#350501 13-Jul-2010 08:46

I started this thread some time ago - and now I see one concept of what future phones might look like, at least from a design perspective:

http://designfabulous.blogspot.com/2010/07/htc-1.html

Pretty cool huh?

(How do you insert an active link, this looks like it doesn't work?)

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#350505 13-Jul-2010 08:55

eracode: (How do you insert an active link, this looks like it doesn't work?)

If you use the Quickl Reply box it would be automatic. Or you can click Compose Reply (Edit as well) to get the full text editor. Like any other program, highligh the text you want to change, then click the Hyperlink button...