Experts in the smartphone industry believe that innovation in smartphones is leading to phone functions getting created as software or services in all manner of new devices from bikes to microwaves to watches and jewellery rather than being exclusive to just smartphones.
Analysts and product designers believe that breakthroughs are redefining what’s possible in current smartphone hardware in terms of screen size, battery life, network capacity, etc.
Christian Lindholm, inventor of the easy text-messaging keyboards in old Nokia phones that made them the best-selling mobile devices of all time opines “Everything in the phone industry now is incremental: slightly faster, slightly bigger, slightly more storage or better resolution.”
Many brands are experimenting with new ways to help consumers interact apart from touch and tap. These include voice-activated personal assistant devices dangling from necklaces or tiny earpieces that take verbal commands.
“The way the whole thing is evolving, the device itself is becoming just another way to provide access to a user’s digital life,” spoke independent financial analyst Richard Windsor.