Predictions for the Future of Smart Phones
Ever since the conception of the mobile cellular phone, the promotional product industry has been there to create accessories for them, from phone branded fascia plates for your Nokia 5110 to flashing stickers with company logos that flash every time it detects mobile signal. It is incredible to see just how far this technology has come in the last few decades, and crazy to think only 10 years ago smartphones didn’t really exist. Now you will notice the smartphone has become a necessity with conditions such as nomophobia being coined for people who suffer from anxiety of being out of cellular contact. The question on the lips of many is what’s next? What is left for mobile phones to do?
Well according to second hand media trading website, Music Magpie, there is talk that mobile phone companies are creating the technology to have control over our smartphone with simple movements of our eyes, because obviously navigating around smart devices has become too taxing for our humble fingers. An impressive retinal related feature that is being looked into is the ability to capture an image, directly from the surface of your eyeball literally at the blink of an eye, never missing the chance to capture a moment ever again, throw in recording and there you will have an absolute abundance of comical moments finding their way onto YouTube.
One technology I definitely think we will see in the near future is flexible screens, we have already seen this briefly with the curved smart phones, but imagine a smartphone that can fold open into a larger screen. Working with some of the largest technology companies in the world at BTC Group we have seen some of the phenomenal advancements in paper thin bendable screens, it is truly amazing how such vibrant quality image can be produced from a screen no thicker than a pound coin, and have the ability to be rolled up!
In a the technological security conscious era we live in, biometrics is not an unfamiliar concept, smartphones have had finger print scanners for a few years now, with some devices incorporating iris scanners also, but what about vein mapping identifier? One of the largest smartphone suppliers in 2015 patented this technology, creating the possibility that even just with the smartphone being in the person’s hand, it knows who the user is.
Of course with the future of smartphones comes the future of smartphone accessories, products like “vein mapping friendly” gloves will need to be researched and developed, similarly how the introduction of touch screen gloves led to its popularity in the promotional market, one thing is for sure, for as long as there are smart devices, there will be promotional accessories to support them!