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Despite a Slowdown, Smartphone Advances Are Still Ahead
Intersting article in nytimes today.
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I wonder when next burst will be seen. Talks about wearable devices, new materials that will allow new and different shapes, and new power technologies. Finishes like this: Quote:
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This seems like a good advance (catching up on reading). Better power performance, lower price.
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I am saving my first Cell Phone. A big Motorola Clam Shell with the bright power hungry LED numbers to wow the grand kids when they get to be teens.
That phone got a few "wow, you must be happy to see me" comments when stowed in a front pants pocket. Of course it wasn't as big as the "phones in a bag" if you had poor reception where you were. Last edited by SeaKing; 09-19-2012 at 05:32 AM. |
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I want a smartphone like this one:
one button only and voice activated, possibly with speech-to-text capabilities. |
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I keep wondering if Project Glass/Google Glass will provide something like this, anyway. Or, if it'll just be for doing crap on Google+.
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So far, I've read about three different upgrades to current chips used on Android and Windows phones. None of the reports has gone into detail about anything other than processor speed. Without more info on specs, it's impossible to know whether that staggered wave in 2013 will justify anyone's waiting to upgrade.
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I think the outside of the phone especially the screen is the new frontier for smartphones. Maybe it is the last frontier.
1. screen size 2. better brighter more colorful more brilliant dazzling screens 3. better software organization and control from the screen 4. stylus 5. voice control for #3. If you can stream and watch an HD movie on a phone already, why are you going to speed that up? To watch it in fast motion? |
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A foldable screen, first it will be two section, but later on there will be four section screens, in essence quadrupling your screen real estate.
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not all the innovations have to do with the phone itself...
1. longer battery life 2. wireless charging everywhere 3. full version of MS office on your phone. phones are powerful enough to run it now. 4. nfc everywhere...more of an infrastructure upgrade 5. full desktop OS mode, which windows 8 has for tablets. one day we will be able to completely replace the PC with our smartphone. just link the phone to a larger screen and keyboard. 6. different form factors. 7. projecting image directly onto eyeglasses, like google glass. but it doesn't make any sense to put all the hardware inside the glasses. the glasses should just be a screen that is wirelessly connected to the phone. 8. holographic keyboard...make any flat surface into a keyboard. 9. projector screen. place tiny projector inside the phone so any glass surface can become a screen. 10. 3D screens 11. more spectrum available for wireless data... |
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I thought the 7" Galaxy Tab 7Plus or the Lenovo 7" might do it, if you had a add on keyboard and mouse. But I don't think they will do it if you use the device in the normal PC manner. Just too small to be efficient. Sure if you take enough time with it, it will work, but normally I think you need at least 9" or 10". I myself had a 10.1 net book for a while, but finally I went to a 11.3 or so, and that seems to work a lot better for a PC. |
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The problem is that once you have become used to screens 15" and above, everything smaller will be too small. I can do work on both my 7" Galaxy Tab 2 and my 10" Transformer, but it is only in smaller bursts. Anything sustainable has to be done on the laptop, preferably with a second screen attached.
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The other night, I was running a program to find a "deleted file" on my lady friends Toshiba laptop (15.6), and she was using my 7" 7Plus to read her Gmail. I looked over a while later, and she had her iPod (3.5") out doing it. I said "what?" She said she could read her g-mail faster on it than on the Samsung. I said "what?" Then she asked me (Apple spurner that I am) to logout and close her Gmail because she couldn't find out where to do it. It is like those Sirens at sea. They keep singing their song, "we need you big man." "You are our kind of guy." "Come closer, you will get the fever." |
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