Evolution of Smartphones

It has been 12 years since the first iphone was introduced by  the Steve Jobs and from that very moment people’s  perception toward smartphones totally changed .I often wonder if he was with us  today would it  have made a huge difference in what we have in  todays smartphones. If we see the current  smartphones in the market we can see there are huge competitions among the biggest companies of all time and some rising companies from China.

It all started with touch screen smartphones which are so easy to use. In those early days the size of the screen were about 3.5 inches. Then screen size mattered a lot, the production of smartphones with larger screen began to increase. Companies are still in the race to prove themselves that they have the higher screen to body ratio. These races of the companies to prove themselves better than the other have given us more and more technology enhancements. Most recently, smartphone manufacturers presenting a whole new front camera adjustment. Some are punching the whole in the screen, some are using mechanical motors which pops up the camera from nowhere, some are making the smartphones again a sliding phone and some are flipping the cameras front and rear.

At first manufacturing a touch screen smartphone was a very big deal. When almost every companies had their touch screen in their smartphones new idea of making the screen to body ratio higher and higher began to hit the manufacturer’s mind. Now at present day, I can say that the objective of making the screen to body ratio maximum as much as possible has been achieved with different attempts such as punching the whole for camera, use of mechanical motor that pops up the camera, sliding phone etc.

So, one question remains what is next enhancements for upcoming smartphones?

Is it the folding smartphones that’s going to be in everyone’s pocket in next 5 years?

Folding smartphones are still in the development phase however some companies have recently launched their first folding smartphone ever.They look quite promising but the price tag is way higher than the normal people can afford.  Is it the folding technology  that everybody want right now or it’s just the manufacturer who want some changes in their present slab structured phones? Although folding technology is a great  achievement in this field , sometime I feel that it can be a  marketing strategy  as well  because consumers are made so curious that they wish to have one. We all have been using this slab phone for almost a decade now and we might have got bored as well. This can be another reason for  both manufacturer and consumer wishing for new enhancements in the smartphones. But are we both sure that folding smartphone is going to be that game changer just like  touch screen phones crushing the market of keypad phones.This had even led to fall of some biggest company of all time.

So what is the conclusion then ? Is it the folding technology that will change everything  just like our thoughts toward smartphones changed completely after we got the transition from keypad to touch screenphones?  What about considering  these three factors ;present slab designs ,foldable technology  and keypad features, while manufacturing a next generation smartphones? There are too many questions and possibilities. Well, let me go a little bit of out of topic here . Sometime when people are clueless they might conclude everything saying ,time is powerful, time will decide and time will prove everything. So, I am no exception here and so the conclusion.