The Future of Smartphones!

you are watching cold Putin TV hi welcome to another cold fusion video to go go here today the smartphone is an integral part of the lives of many people around the world we're at the start of a technological revolution the revolution so rapid an advancement and universal adoption that nothing like it has ever been seen on the face of this earth and I think by the end of this production you might agree mobile technology is the world's fastest growing industry after all but with growth this fast the question must be asked are things starting to get a bit stagnant and some markets the answer is leaning towards yes for example in the United States smartphone market penetration went from a mere 18 percent in the year 2010 to 72 percent just four years later in 2014 so we're running out of headroom here the market may be beginning to saturate but that doesn't mean the industry isn't going to innovate I actually think the smartphone industry is just getting warmed up and many innovations await us so the big question is where is this all going and what is there in store for the future well let's answer that today and take a look at what the future may hold this video will be broken up into three parts in regards to the future of the smartphone form function and performance okay so let's begin form I remember in the early 2010's when people were talking about flexible phones that could change their shape depending on what you wanted to use it for although it's nice to dream the reality is a phone is one of the most complex mass-produced consumer products in history a typical phone includes highly integrated circuits a wide array of sensors and processes and not to mention a battery that would explode if you were to puncture it for a phone that changes shape to happen the manufacturing methods of internals would have to be radically and fundamentally changed until then a truly freeform phone is still a pipe dream a very nice one that being said I do see curved screens like that on the galaxy s6 edge or at least 2.5 D screens like that in the iPhone 6 and original note 4 as becoming more commonplace really is just a natural feeling for our fingers and allows for extra functionality which is always good for software designers to stretch their creativity I also think that front-facing speakers like that my HTC m-series make perfect sense on large screen phone tablets and as the form factor finds its groove as a personal entertainment device we could be seeing more front-facing speakers in the future okay so those are the basics of form what about something revolutionary and exciting enter modular designs so this is the premise if phones are becoming or already are mini computers why not just have swappable parts like their desktop for fathers initiatives like phonebloks and project ara by google plan to do just this instead of buying a brand new phone every time you need to upgrade a component now all you'd have to do is just slot in a new module for that part for example if your camera needs upgrading just slot in a new one if your screen breaks Slaven another one if you need more ram or a faster processor no problem if phone prices stay elevated as they are now and phone product life cycles stay at about one-year modular phones may gain some market share in the next five to ten years all right let's move on to the next section function this area has huge potential right now today your phones can be used for almost any casual task but the phones in the future will be encompassing your entire digital life anything from social media presence to payment to even your driver's license with the aid of cloud computing and machine learning the healthcare industry will also be impacted by giving more control to the patient The Wall Street Journal did a report on the future of healthcare through mobile technology in this report a working example of the future was given by cardiologist Eric Topol and goes as follows I quote let's say you have a rash that you need examined you could snap a picture of it with your smartphone and download an app to process the image within minutes a dedicated computer algorithm text to your diagnosis the message could include next steps such as recommending a topical ointment or a visit to a dermatologist for further assessment he goes on to say that smartphone users will be able to perform physical exams on themselves apps are already being developed to handle all aspects of the eye the throat and oral cavity and the lungs and heart he goes on to say that in the next 10 years nanotechnology in the bloodstream could allow for phones to constantly monitor all of our organs for something like the very early signs of cancer so that's a pretty interesting concept to think about all right so let's move one of it let's talk about mobile virtual reality I'm predicting that it's going to be huge in the future with an entire spin-off industry just for this niche mobile VR totally makes sense in a serendipitous way since there are already no wise as compared to today's early V RPC methods all you would really need is a wireless gaming controller and you could probably get a somewhat immersive experience anywhere anytime you help you manage wires while you're playing that's why we love the gear VR think it's a great advise and you're right in fact you're not better gives you that extra feeling of freedom much more Martha although mobile VR games will probably be simpler than the PC counterparts there's still plenty of potential here so that's pretty cool but what about the future of mobile software as it turns out within the mobile industry the flow of capital is already slowly starting to go from the hardware into the software development so with more money we're bound to get better apps for a wider reach of uses more advanced applications are a great thing but at the end of the day these apps have to run on an operating system and I think many of you would agree that there's still a lot of room for improvement there of course sure Android 5.0 and iOS 8 are pretty great but they're kind of basic when you compare them to Mac OS or Windows 10 and even basic when you compare them to what smartphones might require in the future in my opinion in the future I think we'll start to see mobile software that supports full desktop working environments with integrated support for a keyboard mouse and external desktop monitor all your work and data will be synced to the cloud so the main idea is that you can get your work done anywhere anytime with absolutely no restrictions this idea of the PC and phone coming together may sound familiar to some of you out there and that's because it's been done before by Ubuntu Ubuntu had the right vision with their mobile PC conversion software but they had arrived way too early the market still isn't ready and neither is the consumer alright so let's move on in terms of battery life today's battery life will be a joke there are already numerous battery technologies that are on their way up such as graphene and silicon energy storage and organic batteries from companies such as store dot if these technologies don't get suppressed we should be in for a treat in terms of longer-lasting devices we're talking ten times the energy density and a battery life of weeks instead of a day or so this can only happen if a free-market environment exists that fire in the future before we finish off this section I just want to touch on one last thing cameras phone cameras definitely have a lot of room for improvement and I think in five years they'll be much better than they are today perhaps 40 megapixels are standard some pretty good depth of field superior low-light performance and one thing that I think is going to really increase is the capacity for high speed I'm talking in the tens of thousands of frames here and of course super HD videorecording like 6k and above all right saw almost done let's move on to the last section performance in previous videos whenever I've talked about mobile performance and how its doubling every year and currently sits on the level of about a 2005 PC it seems to cause a bit of controversy even with hard numbers but today this concept goes a bit further with the Tegra x1 but we'll get to that in a second first a little bit of what could be coming in terms of mobile power I think that 2016 to 2017 will probably be the years of truly capable gaming mobile hardware today we're already starting to see glimpses of that take the NVIDIA Tegra x1 as a case study this so-called mobile super chip has 256 graphics cores eight processing cores and can generate 4k video as sixty Hertz not to mention that it can run the cutting-edge game engines that today's PC is always run is that amazing guys oh that was not a video that was all run in real time you were seeing Unreal Engine 4 running elemental the demo done by epic everything was done in high dynamic range lighting which basically means each one of the pixels the RGB are all floating-point exactly the same engine that runs on a high-end PC exactly the same engine that runs and a next-generation game console Tegra x1 just two years ago to perform feats less than half as impressive took 300 watts of power and today with the x1 it just takes 10 watts according to Nvidia CEO Jason Wong the Tegra x1 can run at 1 teraflop ok so what you might be thinking well let's put that into perspective this is the supercomputer ASC I read it became fully operational in the year 1997 and was the first supercomputer to reach 1 teraflop and it held that record till the year 2000 this computer took up a large room and required 10,000 pentium pros to run and yeast 1 million watts and as you know today in 2015 we can reach a similar performance on a mobile chip and next year this performance is set to double again are you starting to see the picture of progress now it's all truly incredible okay so how's this happening and how can mobile ships be moving so fast almost walls apart from where they were in just 2012 well the answer comes in two words research money the smartphone industry as I've said numerous times is huge it's a booming market that is sustained by a massive revenues coming in each quarter all mobile chip manufacturers have a clear motive to spend large amounts of research and development money and when colossal amounts of money is spent in research alone what people thought was impossible four years ago becomes a reality but some of you guys or technologically inclined will be asking wouldn't we be running into heat issues are we going to hit a brick wall in terms of how many transistors we can fit on there and these are very good questions as it turns out some researchers are saying that we're only a couple of years away from getting around such issues so assuming that we circumvent current manufacturing limits in about five to ten years time we will definitely end up with phones that are as powerful as today's desktops and just to be clear this doesn't mean that one day everyone's just going to wake up and the PC has been replaced by a smartphone all I'm saying is that the smart phone of the future will be as powerful as a PC today PCs will always have specialized uses in conclusion the mobile industry is like nothing we've ever seen before and because of this we are living in a truly incredible time I hope this video has sparks your imagination a little bit and I trust that you learnt some new information anyway thanks for watching and as usual don't forget to share this with a friend and subscribe if you're new and want to see some more cool stuff hey guys to going in here thanks for watching the whole way through my video it was just a little bit of a fun look at what the future of mobile technology could actually bring so I hope you enjoyed it and got something out of that and and yeah but it was just a bit of what could be in store for the future so anyway I let you guys go and thanks for watching don't forget to do a thumbs up if you liked it share with a friend anything they'll be interested and subscribe if you thanks guys cold future its me thinking

Channel: ColdFusion

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Keywords: Coldfustion, smartphone, future, 2020, phoneblocks, iphone 7, galaxy s6, note 5, concept, render, phone, leak, rumour

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Length: 12min 9sec (729 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 28 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

The biggest thing I'm excited about are the improvements of the virtual assistants. Having a true virtual assistant would be a game changer. They are already integrating them into other apps, but I think that it will become ubiquitous and much, much better.

The other two things that I think are going to happen soon are thermal cameras and binocular cameras for 3D video/photos.

[u/stesch]

It would look however I would like it to look. Through my AR contact lenses.

[u/Jigsus]

He explains that smartphones are complex and have to be extremely integrated but then shows up with that modular nonsense.

LOL! Modular smartphones are not going to be around anytime soon as more than a marketing project.