Do you think we are reaching the limits of consumer technology?
The phone on the top is the Vivo bezelless phone. Phones these days aren't getting any larger because then they won't fit in our pockets. They can't get much thinner because then you sacrifice battery life. Larger screen resolutions provide little to no benefit because our eyes are already unable to make out individual pixels. The current trend is for phones to go "bezelless" in order to provide a larger screen without increasing the size of the phone. It's likely that we will all be using phones like the one above in 5 years.
The TV on the bottom is the LG W-series (aka "Wallpaper TV). It's less than 5 mm thick, bezelless, and uses OLED technology which has been pretty much perfected over the past decade. OLED panels are thin, flexible, more energy-efficient than plasmas and CRTs, and can display true blacks unlike LCD screens. 4K TVs are already fairly common and have pixel densities close to the limits of what the human eye can perceive. After 8K, there is literally no benefit.
If every phone and TV looks like this in 5 years then where do we go from there?
you're only looking at aesthetics. In reality, smartphones, smart-tvs, etc. haven't improved that much over the years.
Jaxon Perry
Consumer tech has been pretty much peaked for awhile now. 99% of sources don't even provide 2k video. A 4k TV is useless then. 4k monitors are already too dense. Cable is dead, so the only way to advance is if streaming providers offer 2k/4k and if internet speeds rise to accomodate it. Not looking likely anytime soon in USA.
Chase White
There are 1gb/s connections in romania for around €30. Fuck.
Xavier Wright
What we have reached is a limit to your intelligence.
Technology is a lot more than simply how thin or large something can become.
Caleb Jackson
Just into augmented reality type glasses/headset. No need for specialised viewing device when your phone/tv/pc etc is overlaid into your field of view. Blank wall? Not any more - art works or movies or the view outside. Ceiling while lying in bed? Starscape. Look at the back of your hand, timepiece appears to be there. Eyetracking and other gesture controlled, plus voice. Seemingly holograph video calls. All kinds of stupid stuff. >can’t wait for monocle! >muthafuckin BL. I. M. P!
Luis Nguyen
I think we really are. I literally had some Samsung shill in another thread trying to tell me that there were "significant" improvements from the US S8 to S9. (for the record, the changes are SD835 to 845, slightly better camera, and FM radio. Basically everything else is the fucking same), but the fact is we've reached the point where there's really not a whole lot you *can* improve a device these days specs wise, and you really need to rely on design to set it apart. It won't be long now until we're at the point where the cost of research and development becomes higher than any profit that would be earned from a meager improvement. At least until there's some serious breakthroughs in creating powerful processors the are super tiny, low power consuming and with low heat output.
Ayden Walker
I have a petty small 4k monitor at around 21 inches, but I can definitely still use more resolution.
1080p was absolute eye cancer for Asian languages like Japanese, but 4k finally made them look decent without stupid huge fonts. 8k would help push readability to be on par with high quality prints, which would be nice.
Sebastian Parker
I'm hoping we start seeing smaller phones again. Keep the no-bezel thing, but for fucks sake it is impossible to find a phone that comfortably fits in your pocket anymore.
Consider affordability, as well. How many people actually have the money to drop on the LG W-series TV? Yes, the technology exists, but it's absurdly expensive. As time goes on, it will become more affordable, and that's where the innovation happens.
Dominic Jones
Get an xperia xz1 compact. It's comfy as fuck.
Elijah Barnes
Refresh rates
Nicholas Martinez
30€ is 1Gb/s in France. In Romania, you'll get that speed for 5€
Blake Moore
Once headphone jacks are fully phased out, charging ports are next. Then user input. Like it or not, a fully wireless, hands-free, AI powered future is the endgame for consumer tech.
Zachary Martin
Finding a super conductor that can work at any temp would open up a whole new world for us, that's just one way of having a huge leap in technology Free reusable energy would be another Our energy storage right now is actually really shitty, if our power generation went out we wouldnt last a day with energy reserves
Shit is plateaued, which means it's a good time to buy and forget about it. I don't even follow phone releases anymore.
My Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 looks like the phone at the top in overall design, and this is what made me buy the phone. There really isn't much more room for improvement from this for what matters for me, so I buy this Mix 2 and just stop following the smartphone tech for half a decade.
It's just like how I stopped following desktop hardware after building my overclocked i7 2600k system.
Jordan Nguyen
>Do you think we are reaching the limits of consumer technology? Nah, foldable phones will shift the paradigm.
Jason Perry
Phones will be replaces with smart watches + glasses, then eventually contacts, then finally implants. People won't watch televisions or use phones any more, will simply be broadcast directly to your eyes and ears
Oliver Richardson
This
Parker Kelly
It's mediocre at best and slow as fuck
Dylan Cooper
Japan is way ahead of the game then with clamshell smartphones.
Thomas Barnes
this. its all looks and new camera chips that ppl can't tell from the previous one, all because we peaked in hw and there is nothing ""new"" to sell to the customer other than slimmer, thinner, lighter and so on while the core is the same since 2010
Parker Roberts
Need 8k chinkphones to give more use to a phone for replace VR toaster. By the way, there was an ad or something that showed the idea of using the flexible screens to make phones turn into tablets or so.
Should the market start aiming for brain interfaces? It s supposed to be the next boom
Asher Morris
the only thing stagnating in tech is batteries really.
intel only bothered to do some shit cus of amd ryzen
Noah Jenkins
>Nah, foldable phones will shift the paradigm. Whats the fucking point Self repairing phone screens would be much better application
Dylan Jones
No point in anything until it's done.
Liam Campbell
>buying 2015 hardware with potato camera in 2018
why
Kevin Anderson
next step is making it rugged
Kayden Ramirez
>If every phone and TV looks like this in 5 years then where do we go from there? it wont, that lg panel retails for like $8000. Even in 5 years time it will still be a premium panel.
where do we go from here? maybe fucking make oled (more) affordable? Also I dont really want a 55inch tv, give me a regular 24-28 inch which is oled, better yet make it an actual pc monitor because tvs are dead anyway
Ryder Collins
I can't fucking wait for all forms of craftsmanship to completely fucking die because I can just put on my magic glasses and everything will look not like the bare minimum soulless garbage it is.
Henry Young
We are saying this all the time every year for as long as I can remember. There will always be something new or to improve on
Jeremiah Cox
I don't think people would accept something like this
Logan Stewart
lol no that would mean your devices would last longer than two years
Jayden Lee
Next step will be streamlining.
>computer >television >smartphone
These distinctions are becoming vestigial. Their designs are converging, fundamentally each one is a screen displaying whatever content you want, whether that be visiting a website or chatting to a friend or watching videos. Eventually we'll reach a stage where people just have "screens" of varying sizes, each one linked to your online persona (might be a computer you carry round with you, more likely it'll be stored on an Amazon™ server), and you can seamlessly transition between them (you're watching a movie, you catch a bus, pull out your handheld screen and the movie automatically continues playing).
Nicholas Thomas
Software will become more "under the hood" until it resembles human interaction. Compare setting up an IRC chat to using Whatsapp - the latter is far more natural and has less technical details to bother the end user. By 2030 you'll simply pull out your phone, say/type "I wanna talk to Samantha" and the device does the rest, you have no idea what an app or program is.
Julian Foster
>have a moto g from I think 2012 >can't see any design improvement between it and the most modern smartphones
Aesthetically speaking, is there anywhere phones can go? We hit peak minimalism a while back. Now it's just a matter of incrementally edging towards the plain black slab that's one millimetre thick, weighs 10 grams, screen takes up the entire front and has no visible ports or buttons.
