How Much Better Can Smartphones Really Get? 

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I still use a 1980s cell phone. Cant use it for too long without my nose bleeding but it works fine

Five years ago, when I was still in highschool, I used to dream about how the future would look like in 30 years. I have come to the conclusion that it will not be as different as I once thought.

Aren't you worried Paramount is going to copy-strike you for using all that Sonic movie footage?

damn people want 5G and gigabit wifi and i still have 77 KB/s wifi

They could add a headphone jack

"You can play full-scale AAA games." *picture of crudely-drawn Pikachu*

What scares me is this could prompt manufacturers to put the practice of planned obsolecence into overdrive

1950s: "we will have flying cars in the future." 2019: "We will have flying phones in the future."

Instead of focusing on cameras, I'd like them to focus on storage capacity. It's rather annoying that apps keep getting bigger by the day but, the storage space for said apps remains the same.

You glossed over overheating and battery life, but I'd say those are the two biggest issues facing phones right now. They're horrendously inefficient, requiring regular recharging, and the overheating issues cause phones to wear out and break faster. You know the incessant memes of sending an email on an iPhone and losing 10% of your battery, and things like that. Modern smartphones are also extremely fragile. I would like something I could accidentally drop down a flight of wooden stairs and not have to worry about it shattering.

Phones will get bigger and bigger until we’re back to room sized

I still have an iPhone 6s Plus It performs well, no slowdown, great camera And I refuse to give up the headphone jack

Tyler, I could've lived a good long life without all that Sanic in my eyeballs.

Take a shot everytime Cody says "we'll get to that, we'll touch on that later, ect."

Archival footage from 2007 of an Apple Desktop attempting to run Crysis 1 at 0:05.

Phone repair industry is thriving. I replaced my USB port and got a new battery for $150 including labor. Its like buying a new phone and everything still works on it a year later.

I Just want more battery

Smartphone development is slowing down for various reasons and, in my opinion, that is a good thing. The VCR was around for two decades without the tech evolving much and became a reliable go to device. Not everyone enjoys completely relearning and getting accustomed to "break out" amazing technology every three to five years. It's disrupting to say the least.

New on Alternate History Hub: What if smart phones never existed

Xiaomi and Oppo both revealed prototype phones with under-display selfie cameras about 2 days ago

Thank you Vladimir Lenin for teaching about smartphones

My phone must be nearing 10 years old, I bought it new and still does everything I need it too

@2:40 removable batteries. I have an Lg G5, probably the most recent flagship-ish phone with a removable battery

I feel like one way smartphones could and very well should improve over the next decade is in durability. It certainly would be a massive selling point for a smartphone if you didn’t have to worry about the screen cracking if you accidentally drop it, or it dying if you accidentally drop it in a puddle.

I miss the good old days. Does anyone else remember *"Irritated Birds"* ? *Sniff*, such a classic...

What I think could/should be added in the distant future: 1) holographic display/ projections 2) artificial intelligence/ improved assistant functionality 3) medical diagnostics/drug delivery 4) portable genetic editors/3d printers 5) haptic feedback from games/ smell stimulation 6) camera with telescopic/microscopic capabilities 7) allowing users to control dreams and simulate virtual worlds in the processor/mind of the user with a wifi brain-chip interface 8) Hive mind/ downloading google information seamlessly into the mind with a brain chip 9) morphable phone to change shape from a watch to phone to tablet to monitor or into a robotic limb with intelligent motion 10) universal language translation (pretty much almost here) anyone have any others they want to share?

Turn the music down in future episodes pls

The age of being excited for new phones will soon be over. But, the age of exciting advancements in VR, I believe at least, will follow

Remember 5 years ago when the Galaxy's and the LG's and the HTC's and the iPhones and Huawei's ans the OnePlus's all looked different and unique? Instead of all having notches and curved screens Good times

I had a nice chuckle when I saw Google + icon scroll by when he mentions “social media”. RIP. 7:23

If one of these Next Gen Phones ends up being marketed overtly as "Hey, the performance? Exactly the same. BUT...battery life is tripled!" I'd buy in. Companies think Battery Life isn't sexy enough to market but once a flagship raises the bar enough everyone else may follow suit and it'll just be a new standard as we fall back to the usual progression after that.

Samsung: USE PENCIL ON PHONE Apple: BUY THE EXACT PHONE YOU HAVE BUT WORSE FOR $1000 Microsoft: please purchase a windows phone. PLEASE

Personally, I’m looking for a future that involves more quality of life outside of the phone and internet. Why does my fridge need to know my IP? Why does my night stand require an electric source? Why does my windowsill need WiFi? Why does my screwdriver need to connect to the cloud? Why does my car need my credit card information? Why do I need a smartphone to access my bank account? Why do I need to download an app to take an exam? I feel like we’re at a point of the integration of technology that has made what was convenient, inconvenient. There’s also the idea of no physical mediums existing or “phasing out” from media platforms to national currencies that sound like good ideas of the future but in practice are a bit impractical and solely idealistic rather than pragmatic. Like how we’re at the point of video games and movie to where people aren’t actually owning any of the things they buy, they just merely rent them until the service runs out. From my experience, we need to see more technology moving away from phone integration and doing their own thing as opposed to requiring another product to be fully functional. Just sayin’. I like having a GPS on my phone, I don’t see the reason why every new toaster mandates access to one.

One Word: Holograms I want holograms to be used in some smart and innovating way.

So I’ve been playing a lot of Civilization six on my iPhone XS, and it’s amazing how much power phones currently have. I definitely think that there is an opportunity for hard-core gaming on phones in the future with continued development of processor power. We would also need a pretty significant increase in battery capacity to go along with it though. Civ6 eats my battery

*we need a holographic phone which cannot be seen by the others and controled by the mind...* *duuh...*

You're living in a dream world, Neo'ledgeHub. Software doesn't get optimized over time, it always gets slower.

Well, they need to jump to 8k screens for those cheap VR headsets.

Hey, don't forget about bloatware. We can't have a power efficient phone without more bloatware.

2:40 this morning my dad dropped his iPhone 6 into his coffee, somehow, and just bought an iPhone 10r. Same type of thing I guess.

They could improve the audio quality when you're Actually Calling someone

I was thinking about this today. It doesn't seem like phones can improve as fast as they have in the past.

VR /AR glasses will probably replace smartphones.

Literally was just thinking "I hope knowledge Hub uploads a video soon"

So smartphone tech has basically plateaued.

My Galaxy Note 4 works perfectly fine, and I can replace it's battery myself. There's no reason for me to replace it. Besides, it's CPU is good enough, it's screen is good enough, and has a micro SD card capability up to 256 gb.

You forgot internal storage. With the ever growing update bloat of many major apps, such as Facebook and RU-vid, I find that my storage is completely full from just three or four apps installed. But this also has a practical limit, as once multiple terabytes are available on phones one would need to actively attempt to max it out to come close to doing so.

0:21 Warsaw in the background, yeah!

On today’s episode of Lenin Explains we get to hear about how long until Smartphones stop getting better.

Force-Feedback Codpiece. Phones need that.

When selling smartphone hardware becomes insignificant to the consumer, I can see phone manufacturers shifting to software as a service to maintain profitability. Imagine instead of having access to Google or Apple for free, it's now a $9.99/mon subscription. The transition will be similar to how the gaming market is now pivoting to software as a service due the decline of physical and hardware sales.

You know what I'd like? Is someone to at least attempt to create holographic displays, nothing too flashy but just something. I'd dig it

As a general computing device the only differentiation becomes brand, quality, design, input/output, and raw performance specs. Most new things you can do with your phone are software and software tends to get distributed to every suitable platform (with varying compromises).

Problem with this video is that he is trying to predict innovations before they even happen, which is very difficult to do. People would say the same thing when talking about flip phones being the height of convenience, and *boom* smart phones

Perhaps the future of smart phones is integration. I could see them becoming the core of a fully mobile augmented reality system using an augmented vision and haptic interface if not full cybernetics. Fans of the Mass Effect series know what I'm talking about: Omni-tools!

How can you not mention the rise of AI in smartphones?

2 years later and my mother has a smartphone flip phone. Everything gets bigger, good for videos and good for games but I don't know anything other than that

If Phone companies has the IQ of selling a white stick for $999, we have officially reached rock bottom on where we can improve on

Fingertips rings that project the image into space as a hologram. Probably some sort of earbuds for sound from the device and mic into the device. (Size of the hologram is determined by where you should the rings diagonally from each other in front of you.)

Fun fact: The iPhone 6 was the first foldable phone.

3:50 Notch: *cries in swedish*

You know phone companys are going to pull support for older phones so people get the newest phones

I swear that smart phone cameras will start looking like the compound eyes that bugs have with the amount of cameras phones have going up

5 years passed since that video and now all the "innovation" we have is AI gimmick features

My dream is a phone as fast as a PC.

They could try modular devices again.

"Maybe they can fold like old phones" man this video was only 2 years ago and the Samsung fold has exceeded sales figures. It really might be the new direction for everyone.

Phones are to expensive

I'm pretty confident that in a few year the market will move to software rather than hardware and that the smart house hardware will be the next thing as well. Connecting every aspect of our houses to our phones.

Our phones are smart, smarter than smartphones. Arirang phones, the best phone that money can buy

Our town signed a contract to put 5G repeater sleeves on most of our city owned utility poles in Michigan. Supposed to start installing by end of the year, one will be in my backyard.

Holographic Tech is probably the next massive thing but that might take a decade or more to become mainstream

I've never been the type to buy new devices as long as the old ones are functional enough, but once the bezel-less smartphones are an established product and all the problems of early implementation are solved, I'm planning to buy a flagship device and keep it till it inevitably dies, untill then, there will be no reason for me to upgrade.

I think we are seeing the end of consumerism, with the rise of gen Z. Gen Z has already proven themselves to be very thrifty and conscientious consumers. With this generation seeing wages that are well below minimum needed to live its easy to see why. They rarely take out loans, they cant afford to purchase property, and they can barely afford to feed and house themselves. Rampant consumption for the sake of consumption is at its end. The only area this doesn’t apply to is food and cheap entertainment, as they can be afforded. This is going to be the end of massive waste of space houses, the end of luxury cars, the end of purchasing for a brand and not a product, and the end mass consumerism. I am gen Z myself, and I have a few examples. I haven’t bought a new smart phone for 4 years, and wont do so any time soon. This one works and thats what I need. My main mode of transit is not a car, its a motortrike. A three wheeled bike. I bought it for the price of a phone, and its super cheap to run. My main goal in life is to own my own property and start my own company. Im sick of working my life away for a company that barely pays me enough to live. The only things I purchase that are expensive are some foods, and video games I buy second hand or on sale. This is the situation for many in my generation. We don’t waste, we don’t buy the latest and greatest because it is marketed as so, we don’t buy expensive cars that are hard to maintain, I personally know several people who have rejected rent and live in a modified bus, and this generation is probably going to crash all large markets as we know it. Because this generation either cant afford to consume, or doesn’t want to.

Great video! Maybe considering doing something on how the third wave of VR and how it could change society. ( first wave is the virtual boy, second is the recent oculus type vr and third will be when the technology becomes cheap and small enough to enter the mainstream )

please edit the music. sometimes the volume becomes as loud as your voice, and it makes it hard to focus. (example is 5:55)

I'm still using my iPhone se after almost three years.. still does everything I need it to and I plan on holding onto it for as long as possible as I find the size perfect. Battery is starting to get a little weak and I wish I'd gotten one with more than 16gb but overall, I have no real need for an upgrade. It's also my second favorite phone design of all time, after the iPhone 4 series from factor I actually like the top and bottom bezels, phones without are awkward to hold and Im embarrassed that the word selfie even exists so I don't care about the quality of that camera.

heck , id take a foldable "smart"flipphone, if the screen would LAST

Can only imagine future phones would be basically just an screen with a wifi anthena and a battery slapped together, no hard drive, no processor, nothing like that. All the computacional power be done in virtual machines on a cloud service hosted by this mega corporations, your phone just being a key to access this service, and having full control of your device and your information.

"Instant access to all the information the world's greatest minds have compiled" cries in slow internet

Yup we are hitting the Diesel Locomotive Limit on Smartphones, ie in the early 1960's when all the major railways/railroads had bought all the diesel locos they needed, the manufacturing sector stagnated for about 20 years, and now days there's only about 50% of the companies left still building new locos.

Phone manufacturers are removing features from phones. We've already lost the headphone jack and apple has come up with the brilliant idea of not including the charger. Who knows what we'll be holding in the future.

Ultra fast charging battery Doesn't cause eye strain Can transform into a HK416 in 2 seconds Doesn't have a camera bump

I’ll take a longer battery life and quicker charging.

Personally I welcome our new glass slab overlords

So smart they will take over. I welcome our new smartphone overlords.

I still use a galaxy S7 and a Moto E gen 2. Never had a need to get a new phone. Heck with computers in general; I have a Asus laptop from 2009 that I still use today for office work. I fixed most of the slowdown issues over time by switching to linux and using open source office software like openoffice and gimp. It works like a new laptop.

iPhones need longer battery life again ASAP.

I'm just waiting for when you can just unroll a piece of flexible glass and it'll just turn into a touchscreen

Why in God’s name does every sci-fi mobile device have a see through back?? Why would I ever want that where everyone in the entire room can see through the back of my phone?

I'd love a smartphone capable of making a clear phone call.

The year is 2022. Supreme New York releases/issues their 13th Supreme-phone colab with Apple, which is just iPhone Xs with new batteries and in different colors. Sales are in the billions. There are dark days ahead friends.

3:47 Only 2 years later and we already have it

How to improve Smartphones? Well, getting rid of the corporate censorship would be a step forward!

“battery degradation can’t be avoided” yeah but you can, legally, replace the battery w/o voiding the warrantee - it may make the newest phones lose their insane ipf 6 rating or whatever, but 95% of the original battery life can be bought and installed for a fraction of the cost of a new flagship. And stopping the big tech giants from shutting down options to get these parts is a big part of America’s right to repair movement! You should talk about that dude!

Well you kinda said the same thing over and over again

I'm already at that point. I'm able to trade my current phone in, and I have as much excitement for that as when I got a pressure-cooker. Hell, I was more invested in my new Keurig than getting a new phone.

Nokias made of stalinium must return if companies want my money.

I hope smartphones will have projectors in them in the future, imagine the above decent processing power, with a portable anysize screen that you can carry in your pocket.