One of the things smartphones do is changing the pocket paradigm. Phones that once easily fit in your pocket don’t always do so now. But, the abilities of headsets and other things like that, mean you don’t have to dig around in your pocket as much. You can quickly answer calls on your headset. You can check the weather and some other integrated things without removing the phone from your pocket. If you add a smartwatch, you can even interact with your phone, from your wrist. What is available to your phone now versus 10, 12 years ago is impressive. The first releases of smartphones did not include GPS’s. They did not include camera options, and in many cases, they were bound to slower memory (external).
The rise of the iPhone changed that and frankly between Apple and Android phones today what was and what it isn’t even comparable. I remember when the first phones with GPS shipped. I remember when the first phones with Caermas shipped. These changes were market movers. The next change for cell phones will be the releasing of 5g. Now fifth-generation cellular or 5g is a different beast than 4g or what we commonly now call LTE. As you consider 5g the change is massive for applications. Applications suffer when networks have what is called Latency. To simply define latency, it is the time between you asking a server for something (may I log in) to the reality of the server responding to you (yes, your credentials are accepted you may log in).
5g will make real-time facetime conversations or real-time video conferencing on your cell phone easier.
The question that comes to me is what else will be added to cell phones (and intelligent cars) that we don’t have today. 5g opens the door to data. It also opens the door to evaluating where and how you consume data today. The smarter the organization is, about data the better off its users will be. Tomorrow will bring information truly at our fingertips and the capacity to share, interact and drive that information.
The future of technology is going to be 5g! The change to smartphones is going to be huge.
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I am not a fancy type of person. I only change my phone when it requires changing. I basically wait for it to almost die before I get a new one ???. And I don’t like spending a lot of money to cellphones either. However, I acknowledge the progressive changes in this technology because see, now, I can even write without the laptop.
My wife tends towards safety rather than high tech for the most part. But then, she can always ask me to fix it, so it isn’t a huge risk.
She actually got an Apple Watch about a year ago and loves it. She got her first new phone in October of this year. (she usually gets my hand me down phone).
They are always coming out with, updates to make things better. I am not much a of a techy but this time around I think the update are going to be very helpful.
It is always interesting (for me) when they release new updates!
Users voted 4 times.
Q: DO YOU HAVE A SMARTPHONE TODAY?
Yes (4 votes) – 80%
No (1 votes) – 20%
Q: WILL YOU ADD YOUR WISH LIST CELL PHONE FEATURE IN THE COMMENTS?
Yes (3 votes) – 60%
No (2 votes) – 40%
Q: DOES THE RATE OF PROGRESS FRUSTRATE YOU?
Yes (2 votes) – 50%
No (2 votes) – 50%
I have a smartphone, but I do not use it much. Sometimes I think where this technology will go.
I spend a lot of time looking at what is coming. 🙂
I prefer to watch the computer. ?
I understand that, there are many paths to where we want to be!
Another breathtaking article about the future of technologies, just super!!!
Thank you, I strive for new technology when I can
I’m a desktop man. I don’t even own a cel phone and my main system is sandboxed. It makes everyone want to sing “meet the Flintstones”…
I would just say, meet the artist! I know several developers and graphic artists that work offline. you are not alone.
I bet most, if not all of them have cel phones though… You should see the looks I get when I tell people I don’t have one
Most do, it is rare that someone doesn’t have a cell phone in the modern world, but rare is well, not unknown.
I expect most folks have them, even though they don’t need cel phones. What’s rare is that I acknowledge that I don’t need one
I suspect many people have moved away from home phones to only cel phones, based on that they would argue they need the cel.
It works for you, and that is all that matters!
I know many folks who don’t have a LAN line anymore, and that works for them. I have a desktop, that meets my internet needs most of the time. That, and I don’t like talking on the phone, so if I had a cel phone I’d leave it off unless I was calling someone…
The current projection is 40 million homes won’t have a land line by 2024. I think that number is a little high. The only reason being there are still people that need more than one line at a time (like me).
I expect we’re both outliers, but you are closer to the norm than I am…
You are right, but I think I am closer to the old norm not the new.
on some level, you’re always going to be outside the norm due to technical expertise and early adopting
That is true, as in your case you will always be a little left of the norm! Artists tend to push the limits of PCs.
those renders are really CPU/GPU intensive
One of my first IT gigs as a consultant was helping a graphics art house, they were printing posters on a Canon Firey printer, the issue was that was back in the days of a 10 meg network and moving large rendered files shut the network down. We actually worked with a company called Mass Transit, the artist dropped the file on their PC into the mass transit printer folder. It was then moved overnight and printed. It took 12 hours or more between print and review.
we are so spoiled with on demand printing
Around the beginning of last year (if my memory is correct), I have told trainees from one of my client companies that 5G is an example of the shorter pace of change. I say that the possibility of 5G will be socialized (or started to be marketed) in Indonesia at the end of 2018 while even many 3G users (and telecommunication providers investment too) haven’t switched to 4G fully!
I think 5G will definitely need and use a lot of memory and internet quota.
The interesting thing right now is it removes latency. That lag between phone, or computer requesting and the server or system responding.
That is a game changer for developers!
Hmmm… That broadens my knowledge, Doc.
Happy to help! One of the interesting use cases right now is the reality of supporting first responders (fire, police etc) with greater more relevant information real time.
I think that is the best benefit in such cases.
Another use case that is intriguing is the reality of remote robotic surgery. A remote surgeon can perform the operation because 5g offers no lag or latency, the risk of remote surgery is reduced.
That will be great! In your estimation, when will 5G go global?
That will be somewhat difficult. The reality of 5g is that it will require the infrastructure that is currently not always available in many places. I suspect it will take 3-7 years to be available in large cities globally. Perhaps as much ad 9 to even 10 years for remote rural.
I understand and can imagine the need for a big investment for that. Just not expecting it will take as long as that, remembering some of the information I’ve received so far.
In some parts of the world, there isn’t a core deployed infrastructure, 5g is not broadcast widely and needs the underlying cable (fiber) to move the data.
Great! This updates my knowledge of 5G! Thanks.