5 FUTURE GENERATION OF SMARTPHONE 5.1 Technology Outbreaks As the name suggests, the smartphone is capable of doing more things than the m...
5 FUTURE GENERATION OF SMARTPHONE 5.1 Technology Outbreaks As the name suggests, the smartphone is capable of doing more things than the mobile phone, it offers additional, essential business functions such as web browsing, multimedia entertainment, games, etc. - like mini computers but small enough to fit in your pocket. Smart phones have appeared on the market for nearly two decades ago as an alternative to mobile phones which perform basic functions to enable two-way communication only by text or call.
The smart phones of today have different scalability including the camera lens in building high quality, portable applications that support productivity, video-streaming and connectivity that allows millions to remain connected while on the move. And customers have the right to expect many more breakthrough in technologies in the future. One of them could be augmented reality ‘Augmented reality" or AR refers to what we perceive through our senses (usually sight) strengthened through the use of the computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, images and GPS data. AR makes more information become available to the user by combining machine data properties with what we see in real life. Using the camera on your phone, you can point it where it "live" to get an overlay information about where you can find nearest place for example Next is flexible screen, users can bend smartphones in every possible ways they want. Screens can be folded and unfolded, all thanks to Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) technology.
This paper-thin screen can even project future-features-smart-phones/ from both sides of the screen, so you can show pictures or videos to your friend on one side while using the other as a control. Or maybe 3Dscreens and holograms may become the next big thing. Smartphones may provide us with high quality screen resolution but customers want more. Combining 3D and hologram seems to be a great idea for those who enjoy watching films on smartphones (Michael Poh 2012). 29 5.2 Challenges It is undeniable that one of the biggest challenges that mobile operators have to face nowadays is the increasing demand for better capacity. Wireless devices are driving data to an alarming rate which puts a massive strain on networks. A lot of smartphones now have 3G feature, however there are still some problems such as slow internet access, delay and interrupt in downloading or streaming. 3G is of course much better than traditional 2G, but mobile operators have to find ways to increase the efficiency of network architectures. Thanks to great advance in technology, smartphones are now very powerful with many features. But what’s the point when the battery life is still an unsolved riddle, especially when users use 4G or any heavy application. Recently application developers start to face a new challenge called fragmentation.
The more diverse the selection of mobile devices becomes, the more difficult it is for app and game developers to produce a product that works on every device. This due to the facts that there are many operating systems and each one has different requirements and different policies. Another big issue for mobile operators is security problems. It is so easy to hack a smartphone nowadays, even IOS operating system which is well known for high security can be hacked and jailbreak within a day. Others operating system such as Android is considered “too open”, users can lost a lot of valuable data they save in their phones. Hackers can gain access through many ways and reveal user personal information just through a “harmless” application. Not to mention, there are many people choose to pay online through mobile payments applications. These has become one of the biggest challenge for users and operators.
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