The Future of Smartphones: Trends and Technologies

As we move forward in the world of smartphones, it's exciting to see what innovations and advancements are on the horizon. One of the trends that's gaining traction is the shift from fingerprint scanners to face scanners. Instead of fiddling around with your finger to find the socket, you simply need to lift your phone a little bit and start to see where the future is. This change in authentication method requires even less time than current face ID or iris scan technology. We're already seeing this progression, and hopefully, in a couple of years' time, we'll have it down to a science where you won't even need to lift your phone up – simply being present somewhere in the phone's field of view will suffice.

This technology could be very useful, for example, when it comes to security. Your device could always know that you're the one using it, and therefore, you'd never need to authenticate anything, enter a password, or pay with your credit card information. Everything would just be done automatically. Another area that's being explored is flexible displays. While we've seen these concepts discussed since 2011, we're still fairly far from a post-production model. The Samsung Galaxy X and ZTE Axon M are examples of devices that are more like vulnerable phones than flexible ones. However, imagine the possibilities when truly flexible smartphones become available. You could use your smartphone just as normal in a standard form factor and then fold it up into half the size or wrap it around your wrist to use it like a smartwatch.

The next trend that's on the horizon is a replacement for conventional virtual keyboards. Humans have powerful brains that work at many times the pace of their limbs, making them far faster at conversations than typing. This is the logical next step: controlling your phone entirely through your voice. Our brains are still thinking far faster than our mouths can keep up with, but this technology is a step in the right direction. To make it happen, future smartphones need to improve not only their audio detection hardware but also their software. This means that these flagship phones will need high-quality omnidirectional microphones scattered around the phone.

Currently, many phones come with one tiny little microphone pocketed away in the phone's bottom corner, which can barely pick up your voice, let alone understand its pitch, tone, or expression. The first step is to have good hardware that can hear you, but the phone also needs software to understand it. This will help other aspects of the phone as well, like the voice assistant and camera. One area where AI could make a significant impact is in being able to understand the intricacies of human tone and translating your voice into written text that actually reflects the mood you were in.

For now, voice recognition is still getting good enough to differentiate between different people's voices. However, with advancements like the Huawei Mate 10, which features a dedicated chip specifically for processing AI tasks, we can expect to see improvements in the future. The impact of this technology will be significant, allowing phones to understand not just what you're saying but also how you're saying it – making interactions with your phone more natural and intuitive.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso we've all been watching these smartphone industry evolved over the last few years but the future is far more interesting than the past so in this video we're going to talk about the top five trends upcoming in smartphones things that either we really think are going to happen or things that we would really like to see the first thing is bezel as displays now 2017 as you probably noticed has been a great year for smartphones and the screen to body ratios screens have gotten much larger and still at the same time bodies of the phone's smaller now it is very unlikely that at least for the foreseeable future we're not gonna see any phones with a 100% screen to body ratio because of course there are things on the front of the phone like a front camera that people don't really want to be parted from however screen to body ratios are going up and up comparing 2017 flagships to 2016 flagships in terms of how much of the front to the phone the screen takes up and the average percentage has gone up by about 5% which is gigantic when you think about it and currently the market leader the essential phone in terms of screen to body ratio has already hit just under 85% bear in mind you may have elsewhere seen a higher figure being advertised but if you have and that is nothing more than a marketing gimmick in terms of actual measured screen space on the front of the phone the essential phone is the leader but the point here stands that it will not be long either in 2018 or 2019 we are very likely to see a smartphone with a 90 percent screen volume ratio and as we head closer towards this direction it's incredibly exciting because it means we can get not only this futuristic aesthetic but also a smartphone that is incredibly practical there is no wasted space on the front of the phone you don't have to be an expert in smart phones to know that one of the main problems people have with them other lithium-ion batteries inside they are incredibly bulky they don't hold their charge for often longer than a day and they also take a long time to charge companies are very much aware of this though and whilst it has been a very long time coming any sort of replacement to lithium-ion or lithium polymer batteries there are some on the horizon they've got solid-state batteries we've got fuel cells but perhaps the most promising is graphene which could correct most of the battery woes we have with our smartphones right now but also shave two millimeters off the thickness of your phone and there is one company who is leading the way with this known as graphene nano now they're developing batteries for cars and using this graphing technology they've managed to build a battery that could sustain a car over 500 miles using that same technology in a smartphone and you could be looking at a transformative level of battery life not to mention less weight and faster charging times in the mean time as this technology matures though we could see something else quite interesting when it comes to wireless charging the technology which as it stands hasn't really reached its peak it's a little bit fiddly and it's a little bit slow but we're starting to see in some public areas like coffee shops people can walk in take their coffee and sit down at their tables with their laptop and Ferns out and the company for example Starbucks or for example Costa will have installed wireless charging pads under the tables so I'll so simply just doing your work typing up your office documents your laptop can be charging your phone can be charging just by sitting there no cables no faff you don't even need to think about it and this seems very likely to become a trend across many public spaces the next one is instant biometric access now smartphones have been on a bit of a journey when it comes to authentication methods originally we had the password which yes was fairly secure but at the same time was really cumbersome when the smart phones really started to come to the fore we had the phone number pin Henry Hadley patent on Android devices and these are far simpler input methods but at the same time they do lose a bit when it comes to security enter a fingerprint scanners these were first introduced into a smartphone in 2007 believe it or not by Toshiba but they weren't popularized until the iPhone 5s in 2013 and now as we sit here in late 2017 it's almost criminal if a flagship phone doesn't have one and fingerprints are great they're far easier to enter even than a pin or a patent and they're even more secure but the next generation is really the face or the iris scanner the reason for that is it requires even less human effort and we start to see this in firms like the Galaxy Note phones and the iPhone 10 when it comes to biometric access on a phone there are two things which are causing a delay the first one is you needing to take an action for example needing to move your fingerprint to the fingerprint scanner and hold it there and the second one is the small phone needing to process that fingerprint now the second one the smart phone processing capabilities they're just get better and better every year so that time is gonna go further and further down the only way to improve the first section though is to reduce the time it takes you to take that action that's exactly what we saw when you move from a fingerprint scanner to a face scanner instead of fiddling around your finger to find the socket all I need to do now is lift your phone a little bit and from this we can start to see where the future is any authentication method that requires even less time than the current face ID or iris scan as we see is a progression and so hopefully in a couple of years time we'll have it so that you won't even need to lift your phone up you'll simply need to be present somewhere in the phone's field of view the phone could be able to constantly track you with the front camera and as scary as it sounds it could be very useful for example your device could always be knowing that you're the one who's using it and therefore you'd never need to authenticate anything you'd never need to enter a password and you'll also never need to enter your credit card information everything would just be done automatically number four flexible displays and whilst we've seen these being talked about ever since 2011 we are still fairly far from a post production model even he Samsung Galaxy X which should be releasing in 2018 or 2019 or the ZTE axon M which looked read just released these aren't flexible phones these are more just vulnerable phones when we truly get flexible smartphones imagine the possibilities you could be using your smartphone just as normal in a standard form factor and when you're done you could just fold it up into half the size or for example you could wrap it around your wrist and use it as people are currently using their smartwatches you could also drop it and pretty much nothing but happened to it because these displays are made out of a plastic you could be traveling around with a phone that has a tablet size display you could have a 7.5 an 8 inch display which then folds up to half the form factor that is no larger than a current 4-inch screen phone the next trend is essentially a replacement for the conventional virtual keyboards here's the thing humans have very powerful brains that work at many times the pace that their limbs can keep up with have you ever felt when you're having a conversation with someone over Facebook messenger or Twitter but you just can't be bothered to keep typing because your brain is thinking things a thousand times the speed that you're typing them and it feels like a bottleneck it feels like you're being slowed down by your fingers and therefore you'd rather just call someone so because naturally people are quite a lot faster talking than they are typing this is the next logical step being able to control your phone entirely through your voice although of course our brains are still thinking far faster than even our mouth can keep up with it's definitely a step in the right direction so in order to be able to better understand what you're saying future smartphones need to improve not only their audio detection hardware but also their software in terms of the hardware what I'm saying is that these flagship phones need to come with high quality omnidirectional microphones scattered around the phone by having this the smart phone at least has a better chance of being able to reduce background noise and actually hear what you're saying as it stands a lot of phones they come with one tiny little microphone pocketed away in the phone's bottom corner and from this yes the phone has an idea of what you're saying but how can it possibly understand the pitch the tone the expression in your voice if it can barely pick up your voice so the first step is having that good hardware so the phone can hear you but the phone needs to not only hear that voice but also have the software to understand it so on that front we need to see developments in AI artificial intelligence now obviously this is going to help other aspects of the phone as well like the voice assistant like the camera but one of the key areas that could also help in is being able to understand what you're saying in some years time your smartphone should be able to understand the intricacies of human tone and therefore translate your voice into written text that actually reflects the mood it was set in as a stands voice recognition is just getting good enough to differentiate between different people's voices so for example you can now set up a voice lock on your phone so that if I talk the phone knows it's me and unlocks but that's still a very basic form of the technology and AI needs to just get better but it's on the way as you may know with the huawei mate 10 that's just been released there is the first phone that has a dedicated chip just to process AI tasks and I'm willing to bet it won't be the last one anyway guys I really hope you enjoy this video and you found it interesting and if you did it would mean so much to me if he could smash a subscribe button I missed he's the boss and I'm signing outso we've all been watching these smartphone industry evolved over the last few years but the future is far more interesting than the past so in this video we're going to talk about the top five trends upcoming in smartphones things that either we really think are going to happen or things that we would really like to see the first thing is bezel as displays now 2017 as you probably noticed has been a great year for smartphones and the screen to body ratios screens have gotten much larger and still at the same time bodies of the phone's smaller now it is very unlikely that at least for the foreseeable future we're not gonna see any phones with a 100% screen to body ratio because of course there are things on the front of the phone like a front camera that people don't really want to be parted from however screen to body ratios are going up and up comparing 2017 flagships to 2016 flagships in terms of how much of the front to the phone the screen takes up and the average percentage has gone up by about 5% which is gigantic when you think about it and currently the market leader the essential phone in terms of screen to body ratio has already hit just under 85% bear in mind you may have elsewhere seen a higher figure being advertised but if you have and that is nothing more than a marketing gimmick in terms of actual measured screen space on the front of the phone the essential phone is the leader but the point here stands that it will not be long either in 2018 or 2019 we are very likely to see a smartphone with a 90 percent screen volume ratio and as we head closer towards this direction it's incredibly exciting because it means we can get not only this futuristic aesthetic but also a smartphone that is incredibly practical there is no wasted space on the front of the phone you don't have to be an expert in smart phones to know that one of the main problems people have with them other lithium-ion batteries inside they are incredibly bulky they don't hold their charge for often longer than a day and they also take a long time to charge companies are very much aware of this though and whilst it has been a very long time coming any sort of replacement to lithium-ion or lithium polymer batteries there are some on the horizon they've got solid-state batteries we've got fuel cells but perhaps the most promising is graphene which could correct most of the battery woes we have with our smartphones right now but also shave two millimeters off the thickness of your phone and there is one company who is leading the way with this known as graphene nano now they're developing batteries for cars and using this graphing technology they've managed to build a battery that could sustain a car over 500 miles using that same technology in a smartphone and you could be looking at a transformative level of battery life not to mention less weight and faster charging times in the mean time as this technology matures though we could see something else quite interesting when it comes to wireless charging the technology which as it stands hasn't really reached its peak it's a little bit fiddly and it's a little bit slow but we're starting to see in some public areas like coffee shops people can walk in take their coffee and sit down at their tables with their laptop and Ferns out and the company for example Starbucks or for example Costa will have installed wireless charging pads under the tables so I'll so simply just doing your work typing up your office documents your laptop can be charging your phone can be charging just by sitting there no cables no faff you don't even need to think about it and this seems very likely to become a trend across many public spaces the next one is instant biometric access now smartphones have been on a bit of a journey when it comes to authentication methods originally we had the password which yes was fairly secure but at the same time was really cumbersome when the smart phones really started to come to the fore we had the phone number pin Henry Hadley patent on Android devices and these are far simpler input methods but at the same time they do lose a bit when it comes to security enter a fingerprint scanners these were first introduced into a smartphone in 2007 believe it or not by Toshiba but they weren't popularized until the iPhone 5s in 2013 and now as we sit here in late 2017 it's almost criminal if a flagship phone doesn't have one and fingerprints are great they're far easier to enter even than a pin or a patent and they're even more secure but the next generation is really the face or the iris scanner the reason for that is it requires even less human effort and we start to see this in firms like the Galaxy Note phones and the iPhone 10 when it comes to biometric access on a phone there are two things which are causing a delay the first one is you needing to take an action for example needing to move your fingerprint to the fingerprint scanner and hold it there and the second one is the small phone needing to process that fingerprint now the second one the smart phone processing capabilities they're just get better and better every year so that time is gonna go further and further down the only way to improve the first section though is to reduce the time it takes you to take that action that's exactly what we saw when you move from a fingerprint scanner to a face scanner instead of fiddling around your finger to find the socket all I need to do now is lift your phone a little bit and from this we can start to see where the future is any authentication method that requires even less time than the current face ID or iris scan as we see is a progression and so hopefully in a couple of years time we'll have it so that you won't even need to lift your phone up you'll simply need to be present somewhere in the phone's field of view the phone could be able to constantly track you with the front camera and as scary as it sounds it could be very useful for example your device could always be knowing that you're the one who's using it and therefore you'd never need to authenticate anything you'd never need to enter a password and you'll also never need to enter your credit card information everything would just be done automatically number four flexible displays and whilst we've seen these being talked about ever since 2011 we are still fairly far from a post production model even he Samsung Galaxy X which should be releasing in 2018 or 2019 or the ZTE axon M which looked read just released these aren't flexible phones these are more just vulnerable phones when we truly get flexible smartphones imagine the possibilities you could be using your smartphone just as normal in a standard form factor and when you're done you could just fold it up into half the size or for example you could wrap it around your wrist and use it as people are currently using their smartwatches you could also drop it and pretty much nothing but happened to it because these displays are made out of a plastic you could be traveling around with a phone that has a tablet size display you could have a 7.5 an 8 inch display which then folds up to half the form factor that is no larger than a current 4-inch screen phone the next trend is essentially a replacement for the conventional virtual keyboards here's the thing humans have very powerful brains that work at many times the pace that their limbs can keep up with have you ever felt when you're having a conversation with someone over Facebook messenger or Twitter but you just can't be bothered to keep typing because your brain is thinking things a thousand times the speed that you're typing them and it feels like a bottleneck it feels like you're being slowed down by your fingers and therefore you'd rather just call someone so because naturally people are quite a lot faster talking than they are typing this is the next logical step being able to control your phone entirely through your voice although of course our brains are still thinking far faster than even our mouth can keep up with it's definitely a step in the right direction so in order to be able to better understand what you're saying future smartphones need to improve not only their audio detection hardware but also their software in terms of the hardware what I'm saying is that these flagship phones need to come with high quality omnidirectional microphones scattered around the phone by having this the smart phone at least has a better chance of being able to reduce background noise and actually hear what you're saying as it stands a lot of phones they come with one tiny little microphone pocketed away in the phone's bottom corner and from this yes the phone has an idea of what you're saying but how can it possibly understand the pitch the tone the expression in your voice if it can barely pick up your voice so the first step is having that good hardware so the phone can hear you but the phone needs to not only hear that voice but also have the software to understand it so on that front we need to see developments in AI artificial intelligence now obviously this is going to help other aspects of the phone as well like the voice assistant like the camera but one of the key areas that could also help in is being able to understand what you're saying in some years time your smartphone should be able to understand the intricacies of human tone and therefore translate your voice into written text that actually reflects the mood it was set in as a stands voice recognition is just getting good enough to differentiate between different people's voices so for example you can now set up a voice lock on your phone so that if I talk the phone knows it's me and unlocks but that's still a very basic form of the technology and AI needs to just get better but it's on the way as you may know with the huawei mate 10 that's just been released there is the first phone that has a dedicated chip just to process AI tasks and I'm willing to bet it won't be the last one anyway guys I really hope you enjoy this video and you found it interesting and if you did it would mean so much to me if he could smash a subscribe button I missed he's the boss and I'm signing out\n"