The future of mobile phones

[Richard Roman]

Which is best and what is up and coming - what's the next big thing?

 

The market is changing so quickly so for all those techno freaks out there please help me!

 

I read this extraordinary article the other day. The future is here!

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n19/daniel-soar/it-knows

[Richard ridealgh]

er...iphone 4s is still the best phone on the market if you thinking of changing, but if you want to go android I think the samsung galaxy S2 is nice also.

As for the article...google may indeed eat us all one day!

[Richard Roman]

Here is an article I read today - Is Nokia making a comeback?

Is Nokia's Lumia a new dawn?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/nokia/8851228/Is-Nokias-Lumia...

[Richard ridealgh]

nice phone but ....no!

[Richard Roman]

Samsung overtakes Apple smartphone sales. I dont know why but I find all this stuff fascinating!

Samsung has shipped nearly 28 million smartphones in the last quarter and overtaken Apple to become the world’s largest vendor of smartphones, according to new research.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/samsung/8855070/Samsung-overt...

[Julien Cordry/朱可夫]

I don't know if anyone is really capable of predicting the evolution of the technology or the market. I can't think of anyone who was ever capable of this. Who could have precisely predicted the impact of the iPhone? And this was not the first time that this industry has known such a revolution. Remember when Palm was the leader? Perhaps someday, Apple might go down as well.

 

It does look like everyone is going to get a smartphone whether they want it or not.

 

This question of the evolution of the market goes beyond handset makers (samsung, apple, nokia, motorola - google ...) and beyond the platforms (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, J2ME ...), and the app market they entail. It's a matter of users as well. Smartphones depend on the type of public they will reach and their general behaviour (Windows phone users spend more money on apps than iOS users who spend more money on apps than Android users). So Android apps tend to cost less than similar applications for iOS (see Angry birds). Which means that developers will target different platforms for different public and different types of use. Let's not underestimate also the use of thoses devices as gaming platforms.

 

I like to believe that we are going in general towards smarter applications and smarter cities, with better personalized location-based services, better augmented reality applications, apps that keep you in touch all the time with a virtual environment. That's because of course of the better computing capabilities of smartphones, but also because of the emergence of small embedded ubiquitous devices, that can't compare to your phone in terms of capabilities but are connected to each other giving birth to a citywide intelligent environment. It is almost up to science fiction writer to let us know what the future of mobile devices might be. After all, a smartphone is only a much better version than the communicators used in Star Trek.

[Richard ridealgh]