Does Smartphone Technology Today are Obsolete?, Or Do We Entering a New Age of Smartphone Technology?

Smartphone technology today, reach its unprecedented peak where almost all features dreamed by its users are available. Since, we saw the first smartphone released back in the early 2000’s, flocks of features that pleases the user, really helps the daily life, many different aspect. This features includes emails, GPS, etc.

Smartphone makers such Nokia, Blackberry and Samsung push hard the boundary of limitations of technology to develop more advance features. But here comes huge leap in technology back in 2007, where a smartphone don’t have a keypads anymore but instead a huge screen only. This new type of smartphone was unveil by Apple, they called it “iPhone”. Apple was known, for its “iPod”, where incredible amount of music can be stored into small device. Since, unveiling of iPhone in 2007, smartphone technology was never been the same. It can do more task and have more features, but the most known feature was the “touch screen” technology.

Touch screen smartphone became a trend, and many smartphone makers begins to make this new type. With this trend, many new companies emerge specially those chip makers, because smartphone makers wants to have a supplier of parts for their new smartphones. Then, rivalry begins to emerge but it’s more like a competition on what brand of smartphones that have latest or more advance features.

Today’s smartphone, packs a features where user only dreamed ten to fifteen years ago. This features includes a powerful chipset, a HDR type-camera, an excellent security features, better screen display and more.

But last year, a new type of smartphone idea emerges where parts can be change indivually. They called it “modular smartphone”, this idea was being made by GOOGLE. LG G5, have similar idea, because their battery can be swap or change and other accessories can be inserted also. Google’s “Progect Ara” could be the next leap to smartphone technology, however smartphone makers seems not to like this idea, because it may slow or decrease their profit but for the consumer it is a very good idea, because they can save huge money. Instead of buying a whole smartphone, only parts that slows the smartphone or upgrading some parts to improve the smartphone, and this means saving money.

If smartphone makers don’t embrace this new idea because it will really affect their profitability, smartphone technology might not step forward, although some minor technology will such a OLED display and others. Smartphone of 2016 might look similar to the smartphone of 2026, if there is no new idea will emerge. Or a new type of communication device will emerge in the future, where we did not image that it could become into a reality.