How Much Better Can Smartphones Really Get?

We love ‘em, we hate ‘em. But regardless, we use ‘em everyday. We’ve gotten used to constant upgrades and new exciting features every year, but what’s in store for the next few years? Let’s take a look. Or not. Up to you.
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[@knowledgehusk]

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[@conorgildea1163]

Very fascinating video just why all the sonics

[@roman_fla]

Can't believe i've been here from when you had few thousand subs

[@zarendar9732]

@@conorgildea1163 Maybe some sort of trauma after that trailer

[@duelphantom6065]

I loved the 11 seasons of frashier joke

[@conorgildea1163]

@@zarendar9732 must be

[@AlternateHistoryHub]

I still use a 1980s cell phone. Cant use it for too long without my nose bleeding but it works fine

[@AwesomeAsh99]

I'm not old so idk if this is a thing that actually happened with old cell phones. Did it ? 😂

[@channelantoneon]

I use a Pip-Boy

[@ReformedSooner24]

Old flip phones DO have a sort of simplicity charm to them. They’re purpose built, without a bunch of distractions. IMO it’s better to have a flip phone that can text and call, and have something like an Ipad mini for other stuff.

[@dr.vikyll7466]

@@ReformedSooner24 well the thing I like about smartphones is that you have an actual keyboard, it makes writing 100 times faster.

[@jerry3790]

FrontLineFox 20 I don’t think he’s referring to a flip phone, as those didn’t exist in the 80’s. Think more like giant expensive bricks.

[@KriegZombie]

Aren't you worried Paramount is going to copy-strike you for using all that Sonic movie footage?

[@miembrosgibran]

Nigga are you stupid? It was al fake, dumbass

[@anton7591]

@@miembrosgibran r/woosh

[@wienerschnitzel1739]

I can’t decide if I think that guy was joking or not

[@StarSage66]

They might, but none of the footage was animated. I'll admit those sonic images looked like they were leaked rather than directly from the trailer itself, but I don't think a few images from their movie will be enough to get him a strike.

[@danb5909]

I thought it looked more like some kind of Sonic-Crash Bandicoot hybrid tbh

[@juangabriel123ify]

Five years ago, when I was still in highschool, I used to dream about how the future would look like in 30 years. I have come to the conclusion that it will not be as different as I once thought.

[@asneecrabbier3900]

damn people want 5G and gigabit wifi and i still have 77 KB/s wifi

[@asneecrabbier3900]

Joey N. in lebanon because i have shitty ass coverage

[@willmorrell488]

@@asneecrabbier3900 lol, I live in the UK and get around that much too.

[@asneecrabbier3900]

colin3ds i *_wait_* and turn on my 144p

[@animeaddictsanonymous0525]

Same

[@tnt_6308]

Jesus and here I thought my. 5mb/s was bad

[@GeneralKaleRan]

They could add a headphone jack

[@GeneralKaleRan]

*cough* Apple *cough*

[@steele_heart77]

_I_ *_DEPISE_* *_APPLE_*

[@TacoBello7]

General Kale Ran. Seriously y’all you gotta get over that. Headphone jacks are dying off and wireless bluetooth headphones are gonna become the norm soon. It’s not even that big of a deal anymore.

[@TheBackyardChemist]

@@TacoBello7 My headphones that require no charging disagree. They just work.

[@Dell-ol6hb]

General Kale Ran. Yes please I’m sick of using blue tooth all the time

[@ADCD-dj8gz]

Phones will get bigger and bigger until we’re back to room sized

[@zakkizer2490]

it's the Circle of Life!

[@johnny_veritas]

I use a 8 inch tablet as my smartphone. But I have big hands and male jeans have front pockets that accommodate it.

[@sethgarrett6060]

Fahrenheit 451 sized

[@gotworc]

@@johnny_veritas but why tho

[@johnny_veritas]

@@gotworc It provides a much better visual experience which is great for example to watch videos. I'm 1,95 m (6'5') tall, so I have big hands that make it easier to handle it. Why don't you see a 8 inch screen as a plus?

[@tonyrobinson1088]

"You can play full-scale AAA games." *picture of crudely-drawn Pikachu*

[@petersmythe6462]

1950s: "we will have flying cars in the future." 2019: "We will have flying phones in the future."

[@DFX2KX]

And indeed we do have flying cellphones... I'm not strapping my perfectly good phone on a Quadcopter, though.

[@user-ejxomyq]

theyre already here

[@stefanandrejevic2570]

Is airplane mode not enough??

[@akshatsharma8787]

It would be cool to summon my phone like mjonir.

[@rhebucks_zh]

@@stefanandrejevic2570 no

[@channelantoneon]

What scares me is this could prompt manufacturers to put the practice of planned obsolecence into overdrive

[@GabriMN]

Idk about the US, but in the EU laws require manufacturers of consumer electronics to provide a guarantee of at least 2 years, so I don't think that will happen.

[@TheKdcool]

The concern is after 2 years

[@triplecastsleep1924]

I really hope they make planned obsolescence illegal. It technically is, but there's loopholes big enough to fly the Chrysler building through.

[@jonnunn4196]

@@GabriMN Perhaps not so coincidentally, shortly after hitting the two year mark is the reported apple OS slowing down the processor. On the Samsung S series, shortly after 2 years is when I first noticed a slight bulge in the back. I'm in the US, but the major cellphone manufacturers sell the same worldwide. They might give us a shorter warranty, but it's not really likely to have problems between the 1 year mark (standard for most warranties in the US) and the 2 year mark. In any case, the point of this video is there's now no real need to buy a new smart phone even after 3 to 5 years unless something breaks.

[@AdvancedGamingYT]

@@TheKdcool they will just send a "update" to everyone with a 2 year old device which basically makes the system as inefficient as possible+ locked bootloader which can't be unlocked = $$$

[@moritamikamikara3879]

I Just want more battery

[@eb5857]

Moritami Kamikara me too

[@rlicon1970]

I just want more COW BELL.🐮 🔔

[@truth.speaker]

Search KZbin for reviews of the Xiaomi Mi Max 3 5,500 mAh battery. It works. It just keeps going

[@TheCosmicNemesis]

I'd totally sacrifice the thinness of my phone for some extra battery storage

[@briandiehl9257]

graphene batteries

[@triplecastsleep1924]

You glossed over overheating and battery life, but I'd say those are the two biggest issues facing phones right now. They're horrendously inefficient, requiring regular recharging, and the overheating issues cause phones to wear out and break faster. You know the incessant memes of sending an email on an iPhone and losing 10% of your battery, and things like that. Modern smartphones are also extremely fragile. I would like something I could accidentally drop down a flight of wooden stairs and not have to worry about it shattering.

[@DFX2KX]

Those are issues because Flagships pair a beefy Processor/SoC with a weedy little battery that has to work overtime to power the phone. Apple being by far the worst offender as far as I'm aware. Mine is the other way around: weedy processor+big battery. Okay, not that weedy, but the battery is particularly large(G7 Power rebranded Supra by Cricket because Power wasn't cool enough, lol, 5,000mAh). I've got 4h of 4G web-browsing on 95% 16h on Wifi. Modern Smartphones are definitely fragile, that's true (one guy who reviewed this phone had already shattered the back). I have mine in a case that seems to work pretty well, not that I'm about to go toss it down the stairs to see just how well, I'm pretty sure it'd survive as long as the screen didn't hit on a corner of something on the way down though. Now that you mention cases... Shit getting in the headphone jack/charging port. Glad I got one with rubber covers.

[@wesfedo9060]

Tbh, getting rid of the home button and extending the screen all the way to the side is the dumbest idea ever, cause well, you drop your phone quite a lot right? And literally everyone I know with a good phone has a cracked screen lmao

[@joshuasalem5022]

I still have an iPhone 6s Plus It performs well, no slowdown, great camera And I refuse to give up the headphone jack

[@thebleugaming9444]

You know that there arw better phones with Android that do have a head phone jack, have better specs, cameras etc than iphones

[@MechanicalDoll]

@@thebleugaming9444 Yeah, but why waste money on something that performs just as well as what he currently has?

[@RichHomieGon]

Joshua Salem literally me! I'm not giving up my 6s for at least a couple more years when it actually gets slow

[@Razor1473]

TheBleuGaming 6s is pretty good for the era it came from, so I’ll stick with it. I like the user interface and aesthetic of apple products. Not a huge fan of android OS

[@animeaddictsanonymous0525]

I just bought an Iphone SE and really like it so far.

[@ShardNetwork]

Tyler, I could've lived a good long life without all that Sanic in my eyeballs.

[@autotechxbox163]

Instead of focusing on cameras, I'd like them to focus on storage capacity. It's rather annoying that apps keep getting bigger by the day but, the storage space for said apps remains the same.

[@Shadow-iv9ft]

I'm waiting for the day Apple gets the memo and adds in removable storage capability. It's quite jarring to see androids with on-board storage up 128gb and able to slot in an extra 250 max. via a removable drive, meanwhile iPhones only give you 128gb total. If the cloud were better regulated and had guaranteed security I'd be more willing to trust it, but as it is now I'd much rather that extra 200% hardware storage. Considering how laptop and desktop computers are edging toward the tetra-byte hard-drive becoming commonplace in the near future, I could certainly get on board with seeing a phone provide a terabyte of hardware storage. It'd definitely put that particular phone way ahead of its competition if it were to happen, especially considering how many apps and programs keep getting included in the factory-released phones and PCs these days...

[@LetsGetSmarted]

if your phone's storage is completely full from apps then you have downloaded wayy too many apps. uninstall the ones you don't use, because i'm sure it's most of them. but, most people's phones actually don't get full from apps but rather the pictures and videos they take (and never delete!) and all the files they download or sync from other places. realistically storage capacity is one thing phones have been increasing surprisingly fast. there's really no reason anyone would need 128gb of storage for a phone in 2019, but there are plenty of devices that offer that and more, as well as the option to use removable media to add in hundreds more.

[@SSToor]

S10 starts at128gb, few years ago was 32gb

[@lilchad-ig1oj]

Apple devices of 6 years ago 16gb 32gb and 64gb now 128gb 258gb and 512gb

[@dominickpresto2572]

Bruh get an s10+ with 1 Terabyte, then pop in the 512gb mircro sd card. Boom 1.5 Terabytes of storage for a low cost of 1,599 dollars

[@TinklestheGoat]

Phone repair industry is thriving. I replaced my USB port and got a new battery for $150 including labor. Its like buying a new phone and everything still works on it a year later.

[@DFX2KX]

If you get a good repair shop that stocks reliable parts, you can keep a phone going for a long damn time. Provided you don't do things like drop it, charge the phone when it's freezing (yours truly, someone walks places in the winter like an idiot), or let it overheat? You can probably get 15+ years out of a good phone. Now, lacking security updates for something that old will eventually become a problem, but hey, it'll still work like new. Hell you can even buy a new chassis for it and get it looking like new for basically nothing. Almost did that with the Moto X before I figured out what exactly killed the battery so fast. Soldering USB ports is a bit dodgy on some phones, though. On the Moto X it tended to break one of the front speakers for instance IIRC

[@dfwai7589]

Take a shot everytime Cody says "we'll get to that, we'll touch on that later, ect."

[@Biker_Gremling]

Or shows the Sonic thing.

[@lowsecnoya3894]

Thank you Vladimir Lenin for teaching about smartphones

[@jonathanschreiber6053]

Wut?

[@megakillerx]

Lowsecnoya How date you insult Kane by comparing him to Lenin!

[@conifercatgirl]

so I'm not the only person who think he looks like Lenin

[@scythal]

Comrades must always share important information with each other. The Internet is a Trotskyist dream.

[@thejay8963]

PEN_1S Are you 7? Take a fucking joke.

[@evanburgoon8361]

New on Alternate History Hub: What if smart phones never existed

[@truth.speaker]

This world be so cool

[@craigbenz4835]

I'm living that. My only phone has a cord, and my internet is via desk top. I'm happy.

[@Deleted1]

I think they actually did that

[@luan0020]

@@Deleted1 TODAY! All other stuff could still exist, it depends.

[@GJMEGA1]

They kind of already did that. "What if the Internet Never Existed?" kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqTdd3mXm9BrpqM Sure, there are still phones, but without the internet, and thus WiFi, smartphones as we know them ain't happening.

[@mrbull569]

Smartphone development is slowing down for various reasons and, in my opinion, that is a good thing. The VCR was around for two decades without the tech evolving much and became a reliable go to device. Not everyone enjoys completely relearning and getting accustomed to "break out" amazing technology every three to five years. It's disrupting to say the least.

[@NeSeeger]

The laserdisk master race shall never be forgotten

[@Omegadoomship]

Couldn’t have said it better.

[@Overload151]

You're right. However smartphone manufacturers already tested the money of anual releases, the will try to create problems to later solve it by launching new phones (the headphone jack maybe?).

[@InvaderMEEN]

I feel like one way smartphones could and very well should improve over the next decade is in durability. It certainly would be a massive selling point for a smartphone if you didn’t have to worry about the screen cracking if you accidentally drop it, or it dying if you accidentally drop it in a puddle.

[@zachanikwano]

But how would you be forced to pay the equivalent of a new phone to replace the screen? Or be forced to just buy a new phone. That’s guaranteed income right there.

[@cnlbenmc]

Archival footage from 2007 of an Apple Desktop attempting to run Crysis 1 at 0:05.

[@oali2478]

That's a PowerMac g4 from 2001 or so.

[@WitchVulgar]

Xiaomi and Oppo both revealed prototype phones with under-display selfie cameras about 2 days ago

[@albertcazares9092]

A couple minutes of this video are now obselete. Hurray for innovation

[@WitchVulgar]

@@albertcazares9092 yay

[@Biker_Gremling]

I literally bough a OnePlus 7 Pro that day. My new phone was made obsolete even before I got it.

[@Rafael47936]

Now it's 2021 and we haven't seen an under display camera since the rather questionable ZTE Axon 20

[@Elkott]

My phone must be nearing 10 years old, I bought it new and still does everything I need it too

[@Zakatak-mf4iq]

I miss the good old days. Does anyone else remember *"Irritated Birds"* ? *Sniff*, such a classic...

[@radicaledwards3449]

I did hear of disgruntled avians

[@kingdededelicious]

What about "Irritated Birds use The Force"

[@masondicroce917]

The age of being excited for new phones will soon be over. But, the age of exciting advancements in VR, I believe at least, will follow

[@AlucardNoir]

The age of being excited over phones has been over for a few months now. Pretty much all new phones that are coming out or being announced are banking on gimmicks. I mean, take the flip phones as an example, they become basically tablet. We toot phablets to as large as we could. Now we're going full table with them. As for VR. it's still growing but I don't know if the technology will catch up to the desired implementation before people just get bored of it. Remember that the old Virtual Boy from Nintendo tried this but the tech wasn't there 30 years ago. The tech still isn't wholly there for this new generation. Phone based VR isn't good enough, console based vr is better but still not good enough, for some people even the high end, very high cost computer based stuff isn't good enough. If the second gen of modern VR isn't substantially better then what came out a few years ago VR might not survive for long enough. AR on the other hand has a lot of practical applications so development in that won't stop is enthusiast don't buy in.

[@EpicEliteSnipe]

AlucardNoir AR and VR will 100% be the wave of the future, but I disagree a lot with VR falling to the wayside. It doesn’t need to be just for gaming, virtual worlds with high processing power within the next 50 years should be able to feel literally real, a la Ready Player One, and I feel like much of the population will occupy their free time doing things like that, even if the world doesn’t become a hellscape. AR will be more practical than for entertainment, since it basically replaces most of the functions of your phone anyway, once DNI technology comes along, VR and AR will be such seamless interfaces you can basically just think about it and you’ll be transported to a new world, which is something I’m happy later generations will get to experience

[@AlucardNoir]

@@EpicEliteSnipe That might be so, but I'm not talking about 50 years from now, I'm talking about 5 to 10 years from now. The same the Virtual Boy died almost 30 years ago so too is current get VR poised to die unless major improvements happen in the field. there might be a second major resurgence of VR 20-30 years from now if VR fails now, and your 50 year prediction might come true, but I wouldn't put money on present day VR surviving another 10 years, let alone 50.

[@EpicEliteSnipe]

AlucardNoir Okay yeah the short term prediction makes more sense in that context, it is very rudimentary right now and might just take a while to develop into something the majority of people begin using, although that is the main reason I projected it to become mainstream in about 50 years, no later than 100 though, but by that time the tech will be insane by today’s standards

[@masondicroce917]

@@EpicEliteSnipe Naw, honestly I wouldn't be surprised if VR is mainstream by the end of the 2020's, or at least by the 2030's. The VR industry is expanding, and as it continues to expand and more content is made for VR and VR gets cheaper more and more people will pick one up until eventually, people won't even think of living without one much like smartphones.

[@seanhardy_]

What I think could/should be added in the distant future: 1) holographic display/ projections 2) artificial intelligence/ improved assistant functionality 3) medical diagnostics/drug delivery 4) portable genetic editors/3d printers 5) haptic feedback from games/ smell stimulation 6) camera with telescopic/microscopic capabilities 7) allowing users to control dreams and simulate virtual worlds in the processor/mind of the user with a wifi brain-chip interface 8) Hive mind/ downloading google information seamlessly into the mind with a brain chip 9) morphable phone to change shape from a watch to phone to tablet to monitor or into a robotic limb with intelligent motion 10) universal language translation (pretty much almost here) anyone have any others they want to share?

[@bpdmf2798]

11) Phone you can get a BJ from.

[@ffejkk37]

The hive mind idea is the key to a Tomorrowland like world. Where our smart devices could be implanted and given an AI software that monitors health, and cognitive behavior. Vehicles would share that hive mind technology, allowing more efficient traveling.

[@GaboCO316]

Remember 5 years ago when the Galaxy's and the LG's and the HTC's and the iPhones and Huawei's ans the OnePlus's all looked different and unique? Instead of all having notches and curved screens Good times

[@newworlddisorder9300]

The S4-S5 era was peak smartphone design imo. It quickly got boring around S7-S8/iphone X, and I realized they were always kind of addictive and excessive.. unless you get an uber every day or something.

[@ilikedota5]

@2:40 removable batteries. I have an Lg G5, probably the most recent flagship-ish phone with a removable battery

[@hetakusoda2977]

Nope, I've got a V20 which actually holds that title

[@axmajpayne]

I have a G5 as well. It's an ok phone, but the screens on them are fragile. The removable battery is the only reason I still use it but it's pretty much impossible to get authentic, new condition LG batteries for it at this point and most third party batteries are of questionable quality.

[@username65585]

Galaxy S5 has replaceable battery and is water proof.

[@rodrigoteresa7944]

I had that too but it got slow after a while. The battery always degraded after a year or so and I'd have to replace it

[@JGD44]

Is the g5 better than the k11+? Genuine question.

[@zacharyreynolds9979]

I had a nice chuckle when I saw Google + icon scroll by when he mentions “social media”. RIP. 7:23

[@BigTylt]

Lol, Google Plus was a shitshow right up until it died. Good riddance.

[@-haclong2366]

It is still around, but it's basically an inferior version of Microsoft Yammer now. 🤣🤣🤣

[@tinycockjock1967]

黑龍 - Hắc Long What the fuck is Microsoft Yammer lmao

[@tinycockjock1967]

黑龍 - Hắc Long Also dude you from Hong Kong?

[@SuperCartoonist]

Hey, don't forget about bloatware. We can't have a power efficient phone without more bloatware.

[@SharpEdgeSoda]

If one of these Next Gen Phones ends up being marketed overtly as "Hey, the performance? Exactly the same. BUT...battery life is tripled!" I'd buy in. Companies think Battery Life isn't sexy enough to market but once a flagship raises the bar enough everyone else may follow suit and it'll just be a new standard as we fall back to the usual progression after that.

[@TheGreatCooLite]

Samsung: USE PENCIL ON PHONE Apple: BUY THE EXACT PHONE YOU HAVE BUT WORSE FOR $1000 Microsoft: please purchase a windows phone. PLEASE

[@daddybonez]

Blackberry: Am I still relevant?

[@akai4942]

Why do you comment the same exact thing always?

[@TheGreatCooLite]

@@akai4942 I don't. These types of comments are just the ones that get the most likes

[@rayxr]

HTC: I use to be cool, you know.

[@BigTylt]

PalmOS: *Laughs in dead*

[@v4l3nt1nn]

*we need a holographic phone which cannot be seen by the others and controled by the mind...* *duuh...*

[@RT-dg6sk]

Maybe in the future

[@og.K7]

Vali Tsunami but, its impossible. unless you want giant wires and scars on and in your head. also headaches, headaches will be bad

[@F_Du_Sea]

Maybe your imagination?

[@t6amygdala]

69th like. Nice.

[@theendurance]

@K7 smartphones seemed impossible 30 years ago. nothing is impossible for the human mind to create

[@SchwerMetall154]

Personally, I’m looking for a future that involves more quality of life outside of the phone and internet. Why does my fridge need to know my IP? Why does my night stand require an electric source? Why does my windowsill need WiFi? Why does my screwdriver need to connect to the cloud? Why does my car need my credit card information? Why do I need a smartphone to access my bank account? Why do I need to download an app to take an exam? I feel like we’re at a point of the integration of technology that has made what was convenient, inconvenient. There’s also the idea of no physical mediums existing or “phasing out” from media platforms to national currencies that sound like good ideas of the future but in practice are a bit impractical and solely idealistic rather than pragmatic. Like how we’re at the point of video games and movie to where people aren’t actually owning any of the things they buy, they just merely rent them until the service runs out. From my experience, we need to see more technology moving away from phone integration and doing their own thing as opposed to requiring another product to be fully functional. Just sayin’. I like having a GPS on my phone, I don’t see the reason why every new toaster mandates access to one.

[@sergrojGrayFace]

You're living in a dream world, Neo'ledgeHub. Software doesn't get optimized over time, it always gets slower.

[@TexasDragon]

One Word: Holograms I want holograms to be used in some smart and innovating way.

[@johnlombera831]

How about transparent circuitry to allow special placement of sensors to display holographic data when placing the smartphone on a seperate lighting device (like placing paper on a projector), or maybe transparent circuitry placed ontop of a traditional led backlight to give the illusion of depth and display pseudo-holograms that way? Just ideas to get those dreams rolling.

[@AvailableUsernameTed]

I liked that episode of How I Met Your Mother where future Ted talks to a phone generated hologram of future Marshal. What a great way to interact,

[@clixxyz2330]

I think a good use of holograms is to make pocket laptops, because holograms don't weigh anything and don't really take up space

[@emigdiohernandez1530]

Holographic porn

[@symmeta7168]

Nanotechnology plus holograms

[@concernednewfie]

Well, they need to jump to 8k screens for those cheap VR headsets.

[@username65585]

@Krok Krok For general purposes, yes. But for VR where the screen is less than a inch from your eyes we will see benefits up to 16K.

[@dominickpresto2572]

Do you realize the battery consumption?

[@username65585]

@@dominickpresto2572 Phones already have the ability to run at a lower resolution part of the time to save battery.

[@c31979839]

Yeah, but VR screens won't come from the phone. It's like back in the day when a camera was just an attachment for your phone you could buy. This stuff will all get integrated. So your VR headset will have 4K, 8K or 16K displays built in. No bulky/heavy cell phone hanging off the front of your face.

[@concernednewfie]

@@c31979839 Well I would buy a Occulus Rift style headset in a second if there were no wires. But even they have relatively low resolution issues at the moment. But I would never have gotten a S8+ if it not been for the GearVR experience.

[@flashcardz3150]

at 9:00 what is that jazz music? It's the same one played during the patrons during the Willson video on their other channel, and I'd really like to know the name of the song so I can look it up.

[@MRboss11]

They could improve the audio quality when you're Actually Calling someone

[@lucatoffa7163]

Wait, are you saying I can still call people with the phone? Isn't this thing just for KZbin, Google and whatsapp?

[@adamduerwachter2596]

2:40 this morning my dad dropped his iPhone 6 into his coffee, somehow, and just bought an iPhone 10r. Same type of thing I guess.

[@dominickpresto2572]

If he just had an iPhone 7, this wouldn't of been a problem😑

[@hamzasami8362]

@@dominickpresto2572 still would be. If he had a galaxy s6 and up, this wouldn't be a problem. Hell it wouldn't be a problem all the way from the Note 5 :D

[@dominickpresto2572]

@@hamzasami8362 Umm. You don't know phones. The s7 and note 7 were wateresistant.

[@hamzasami8362]

@@dominickpresto2572 of course water resistant.. no phone is "water proof"

[@dominickpresto2572]

@@hamzasami8362 oml you said s6 and note 5, they have nothing dumbo. It started with s8 and note 7

[@OrganizationOfFreeNations]

Literally was just thinking "I hope knowledge Hub uploads a video soon"

[@chi7891]

So I’ve been playing a lot of Civilization six on my iPhone XS, and it’s amazing how much power phones currently have. I definitely think that there is an opportunity for hard-core gaming on phones in the future with continued development of processor power. We would also need a pretty significant increase in battery capacity to go along with it though. Civ6 eats my battery

[@Patrick_3751]

So smartphone tech has basically plateaued.

[@LetsGetSmarted]

according to 1 idiot on the internet with a youtube channel and no experience in the phone industry, maybe

[@montengro234]

I was thinking about this today. It doesn't seem like phones can improve as fast as they have in the past.

[@tctomy21]

muy bien dicho mi general

[@montengro234]

@@tctomy21 Gracias, amigo

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

you cant really predict innovations

[@filipdevillard720]

0:21 Warsaw in the background, yeah!

[@desolation0]

As a general computing device the only differentiation becomes brand, quality, design, input/output, and raw performance specs. Most new things you can do with your phone are software and software tends to get distributed to every suitable platform (with varying compromises).

[@ProgressOnly]

Our town signed a contract to put 5G repeater sleeves on most of our city owned utility poles in Michigan. Supposed to start installing by end of the year, one will be in my backyard.

[@madcat789]

Force-Feedback Codpiece. Phones need that.

[@nightthemoon8481]

Well Apple is ditching 3d touch so rip any hope of that

[@madcat789]

@@nightthemoon8481 Well Apple is for retards with too much money so that's fine.

[@LordDragon1965]

Not in this lifetime.

[@adama-k2710]

Sony have a 'dynamic vibration system'

[@firstcynic92]

My Galaxy Note 4 works perfectly fine, and I can replace it's battery myself. There's no reason for me to replace it. Besides, it's CPU is good enough, it's screen is good enough, and has a micro SD card capability up to 256 gb.

[@jonnunn4196]

The usual way on the android side to force an update is that at same point, you have to root the device if you want any more android updates as the carrier decides not to add it's shell to the older device, and then later a major version of android notes that it requires a higher version of the hardware. But for the diehards, eventually they'll be nobody manufacturing the right battery size.

[@poletooke4691]

Fingertips rings that project the image into space as a hologram. Probably some sort of earbuds for sound from the device and mic into the device. (Size of the hologram is determined by where you should the rings diagonally from each other in front of you.)

[@rayxr]

When selling smartphone hardware becomes insignificant to the consumer, I can see phone manufacturers shifting to software as a service to maintain profitability. Imagine instead of having access to Google or Apple for free, it's now a $9.99/mon subscription. The transition will be similar to how the gaming market is now pivoting to software as a service due the decline of physical and hardware sales.

[@yeetz3508]

You know what I'd like? Is someone to at least attempt to create holographic displays, nothing too flashy but just something. I'd dig it

[@flcl7154]

Didn't the red hydrogen phone use this?

[@yeetz3508]

@@flcl7154 Somewhat, its very primitive as in its more of a vr-ish experience (from my understanding) it doesn't create any hologram. I haven't experienced it myself but I've read on it a little bit.

[@flcl7154]

@@yeetz3508 until we see a proper projected holographic display , I think I heard it as being the best we have so far even if it's more just like 3d without the glasses

[@yeetz3508]

@@flcl7154 I agree its better than nothing, I wouldn't call it a baby step but more like a foetus kick (if that makes any sense lol) I hope companies start (or keep) working on these ideas

[@nitro5401]

How can you not mention the rise of AI in smartphones?

[@thebanker121_]

It's not really even ai yet though. It's just complicated algorithms. An actual AI isn't going to be around for a long time

[@mlv5746]

@@thebanker121_ where's the boundary between the two tho

[@thebanker121_]

@@mlv5746 An AI would be a computer that can by itself have complete human intelligence. An algorithm is just code that programmers made to do an intended task

[@mlv5746]

@@thebanker121_ no AI gains intelligence equivalent to that of humans by itself

[@LetsGetSmarted]

suddenly everyone thinks they have a phd on ai because they heard someone else explain what it stands for

[@aidena8381]

VR /AR glasses will probably replace smartphones.

[@allaion2897]

Especially as VR hand recognition gets better

[@MaximusAlcarinque]

Neural interfaces, brain implants and programmable DNA are the endgame.

[@donkeyhobo34]

Customizing. One phone I had a kid, I bought a battery that lit up into different designs, and did different designs when it rang that I wish I could get for a smart phone

[@Christian-vq3lr]

Problem with this video is that he is trying to predict innovations before they even happen, which is very difficult to do. People would say the same thing when talking about flip phones being the height of convenience, and *boom* smart phones

[@magead]

so did people in 2000-2010 with processors, they thought they would get more GHz but they actually got more cores

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

phones went from nokia to motorol razr flip phone to tmobile to blackberrry to smart phones so yeah there could be a replacement fro smart phone

[@Rafael47936]

He already failed to predict high refresh rate screens

[@kaitlyn__L]

@Sufuurin smart glasses that do AR and are just like wearing regular glasses. Get there by having longer and longer battery life in slab phones until the PCB is such a small fraction of the internal volume, as there’s no reason not to charge glasses while you sleep, so multi day battery life isn’t so important vs a phone

[@deinekes9]

Perhaps the future of smart phones is integration. I could see them becoming the core of a fully mobile augmented reality system using an augmented vision and haptic interface if not full cybernetics. Fans of the Mass Effect series know what I'm talking about: Omni-tools!

[@chrisgurney2467]

Yup we are hitting the Diesel Locomotive Limit on Smartphones, ie in the early 1960's when all the major railways/railroads had bought all the diesel locos they needed, the manufacturing sector stagnated for about 20 years, and now days there's only about 50% of the companies left still building new locos.

[@christracey5813]

You forgot internal storage. With the ever growing update bloat of many major apps, such as Facebook and KZbin, I find that my storage is completely full from just three or four apps installed. But this also has a practical limit, as once multiple terabytes are available on phones one would need to actively attempt to max it out to come close to doing so.

[@mohpolitics22]

Holographic Tech is probably the next massive thing but that might take a decade or more to become mainstream

[@zaedin1]

On today’s episode of Lenin Explains we get to hear about how long until Smartphones stop getting better.

[@t6amygdala]

Wait what does this have to do with daddy Lenin?

[@lostaris]

The quality of the artwork id's amazing in this episode 🏅

[@fr8242_]

Turn the music down in future episodes pls

[@Native_Beats_]

The music wasn't a problem for me before I read this comment, but now its all I can hear...

[@mhm3z]

Native_Beats _2016 same

[@jordanmcdonagh5883]

Now I’m breathing manually

[@mhm3z]

Oh yeah yeah ffs why man I literally am now kmt

[@evanelang]

Whats really gonna change the landscape isnt improvements in processors, but the increasing availability of FPGA's. Soon its gonna matter more what "Hardware Software" people are running in their devices more than the actual chips themselves.

[@ras573]

You lost me at "W". Hey, I barely know anything about these things, but would really like to know what you mean. Thanks.

[@jerry3790]

Fun fact: The iPhone 6 was the first foldable phone.

[@FryDieMine]

Wrong Galaxy Fold is the first foldable phone

[@tdawgmaster1729]

Did you guys forget flip-phones or something?

[@_matthenheizer_4558]

Cristoffer Santiago r/Whoosh

[@FryDieMine]

@@tdawgmaster1729 flip phones are different from foldable phone

[@ConWolfDoubleO7]

"Maybe they can fold like old phones" man this video was only 2 years ago and the Samsung fold has exceeded sales figures. It really might be the new direction for everyone.

[@GorgutsFan1998]

Knowledgehub and alternatehistoryhub have improved so much.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Our phones are smart, smarter than smartphones. Arirang phones, the best phone that money can buy

[@mwbgaming28]

You mean I can't just have one for free? I thought you were a communist

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

money?i thought you were a communist

[@ihavetowait90daystochangem67]

If Phone companies has the IQ of selling a white stick for $999, we have officially reached rock bottom on where we can improve on

[@judechaer3878]

I didn't hear a single word you said, because of the background music, i listen to this jazz stress every morning, so i was remembering what i was doing this morning

[@Atticblood]

2 years later and my mother has a smartphone flip phone. Everything gets bigger, good for videos and good for games but I don't know anything other than that

[@Space_Reptile]

heck , id take a foldable "smart"flipphone, if the screen would LAST

[@mattsomeone610]

You know phone companys are going to pull support for older phones so people get the newest phones

[@lucasqwert1]

Like they are doing now?

[@mattsomeone610]

@@lucasqwert1 are they last I checked Nokia is still going strong

[@jseden]

I'm still using my iPhone se after almost three years.. still does everything I need it to and I plan on holding onto it for as long as possible as I find the size perfect. Battery is starting to get a little weak and I wish I'd gotten one with more than 16gb but overall, I have no real need for an upgrade. It's also my second favorite phone design of all time, after the iPhone 4 series from factor I actually like the top and bottom bezels, phones without are awkward to hold and Im embarrassed that the word selfie even exists so I don't care about the quality of that camera.

[@catfishjack8169]

Great video! Maybe considering doing something on how the third wave of VR and how it could change society. ( first wave is the virtual boy, second is the recent oculus type vr and third will be when the technology becomes cheap and small enough to enter the mainstream )

[@catfishjack8169]

Or don’t do whatever the fuck you wanna do

[@DeconvertedMan]

So smart they will take over. I welcome our new smartphone overlords.

[@creampop8553]

They could try modular devices again.

[@mwbgaming28]

Nah that makes too much sense and is too consumer friendly

[@jesus-ck4el]

phones will likely be among the first things we try mind to machine link technology on if it ever becomes portable and viable. all those fingers and extra screen space without all the constant wiping of glass and just the ease of use it would bring.

[@BeaglzRok1]

The form factor gimmick of having a folding screen would probably be what gets me to finally get a smartphone. But you gotta keep the bezel, I like the frame aesthetic, and if it's even slightly higher than the screen I won't have to worry about clacking my touchscreen against itself. Flip phone hangups are my favorite way to do so, and I carry around my DS Lite more often than any sort of cell phone.

[@twami86]

My dream is a phone as fast as a PC.

[@animeaddictsanonymous0525]

Tarmius I want to be able to play steam games on my phone and tablet.

[@myscreen2urs]

Phone manufacturers are removing features from phones. We've already lost the headphone jack and apple has come up with the brilliant idea of not including the charger. Who knows what we'll be holding in the future.

[@blakeaustin4250]

They’ll slowly chip everything away until the phone is nothing but a chip in our hand.

[@kenalba5641]

iPhone 16 (phone not included)

[@falpsdsqglthnsac]

Love the illustrations

[@Tall_Order]

I still use a galaxy S7 and a Moto E gen 2. Never had a need to get a new phone. Heck with computers in general; I have a Asus laptop from 2009 that I still use today for office work. I fixed most of the slowdown issues over time by switching to linux and using open source office software like openoffice and gimp. It works like a new laptop.

[@jaridkeen123]

Phones are to expensive

[@DacLMK]

Yea, flagships are, but you can get decent smartphone for under 200$.

[@hotsaucefausty18]

Too

[@alexbrezny6108]

@@DacLMK 200 dollars is still a bit of money for a lot of people

[@DacLMK]

@@alexbrezny6108 Then they can get a 100$ smartphone, or even a 80$.

[@thefilmdirector1]

@@DacLMK You seem to be missing the point, these phones at most cost 40 bucks to build. And thats for a top end flagship.... Do not make excuses for these companies and their price gouging.

[@martinfawkes595]

iPhones need longer battery life again ASAP.

[@LeonardoRodriguez-qw7lu]

I'm pretty confident that in a few year the market will move to software rather than hardware and that the smart house hardware will be the next thing as well. Connecting every aspect of our houses to our phones.

[@Niom_Music]

3:50 Notch: *cries in swedish*

[@ziggy8253]

I’ll take a longer battery life and quicker charging.

[@thomascard6701]

Have you ever looked at the Samsung Galaxy S10? long battery & very fast charging

[@crispymormon5977]

I think we are seeing the end of consumerism, with the rise of gen Z. Gen Z has already proven themselves to be very thrifty and conscientious consumers. With this generation seeing wages that are well below minimum needed to live its easy to see why. They rarely take out loans, they cant afford to purchase property, and they can barely afford to feed and house themselves. Rampant consumption for the sake of consumption is at its end. The only area this doesn’t apply to is food and cheap entertainment, as they can be afforded. This is going to be the end of massive waste of space houses, the end of luxury cars, the end of purchasing for a brand and not a product, and the end mass consumerism. I am gen Z myself, and I have a few examples. I haven’t bought a new smart phone for 4 years, and wont do so any time soon. This one works and thats what I need. My main mode of transit is not a car, its a motortrike. A three wheeled bike. I bought it for the price of a phone, and its super cheap to run. My main goal in life is to own my own property and start my own company. Im sick of working my life away for a company that barely pays me enough to live. The only things I purchase that are expensive are some foods, and video games I buy second hand or on sale. This is the situation for many in my generation. We don’t waste, we don’t buy the latest and greatest because it is marketed as so, we don’t buy expensive cars that are hard to maintain, I personally know several people who have rejected rent and live in a modified bus, and this generation is probably going to crash all large markets as we know it. Because this generation either cant afford to consume, or doesn’t want to.

[@johnny_veritas]

I've also consider the living in a motor vehicle idea. It's main disadvantages seem to be climate control specially during the winter, the need to be able to pump fresh water and dump grey water and lack of space. Going for a large vehicle is expensive and loses mobility and stealth. Not to speak of security and it being a depreciating asset. I was born in 1991, rent a room in a shared house 200 EUR/month and ride a bicycle.

[@igloo2962]

How do you know about Gen Z when they're not even adults yet?

[@crispymormon5977]

@@igloo2962 Because I am pretty much one of the eldest Gen Z, and I am a adult. All my friends are Gen Z, and a good number of them are adults now too. Gen Z is here my dude, not years off.

[@igloo2962]

@@crispymormon5977 The vast majority aren't adults. Gen Z and not an adult here.

[@bpdmf2798]

@@johnny_veritas When more people are living in motor vehicles and tiny houses on trailers of trucks and other outside the mainstream methods there will be more areas dedicated to catering to their needs such as large areas to park and sleep that are fenced off and safe and have showers and stuff. I've always wondered why people spend 30 years of their life paying off a house that is essentially $20k to $40k worth of supplies and maybe double that in man hours labor. A house is only really worth $50k to $100k (less or more depending on the area and size) and yet people are charged $500k or a million or more plus interest. Just talk to some "house flippers" who get rich buying land and sending some cash to build a house and then selling it for 5 or 10 times the cost of building it (when they pay the builders too). Then they work their whole damn lives buying it. It just doesn't make sense.

[@chrisklein2924]

Another topic that could be interesting would be a collection of everything holding new innovations back. Ie room temperature superconductors for better processors, stronger metals for space elevators, whatever keeps us from cloning organs for transplants (remember hearing once if we could reasonably replace human hearts the next organ to commonly crap out would be the human brain at a usual 150 year mark) ect/ect

[@Hiro1oo1]

I'd love to see a video about Moore's Law and invest into looking about what happened to allow the next big steps in initial transistor improvement as well as how these improvements changed the face of developed society. What changed when we moved on from vacuum tubes? What sort of work arounds did research and science have to do to get around the limitations of their present technology to accomplish massive feats? What does Moore's Law realistically look like after years of improvement and what is beyond just "doubling transistors" by shrinking the transistors themselves? Is there technology being developed that allows out of the box solutions or is there material science taking shape that allows for progression? I'd like to see this sort of video address the significance then as a reflection of the advances for consumer and for science as well as looking towards the concern that we'll hit a point where we can't go any further in improving transistor counts for a given integrated circuit.

[@Moon222]

please edit the music. sometimes the volume becomes as loud as your voice, and it makes it hard to focus. (example is 5:55)

[@smorgasbord9940]

Why in God’s name does every sci-fi mobile device have a see through back?? Why would I ever want that where everyone in the entire room can see through the back of my phone?

[@linin3288]

True

[@raidev_]

yeah i hate that, so when you pick up the phone backwards, you will just see everything flipped?

[@ehudkirsh766]

I hope that in the future, phones, Laptops, Watches, pc cases, etc, will be customisable. So for the same features and performance, you could choose things like where the ports will be and what features are more important to you than others

[@tannermullins3714]

Great video. I found it kinda funny tho that I felt like I was playing the Honest Hearts DLC for NV cause the only radio station plays the type of music that’s in the background.

[@Tarantino1Dean]

Hasn't Moore's law been "coming to an end" for years? When will the end actually happen? Can someone sk00l me on dis

[@Cato76]

Make a video on why fallout brotherhood of steel is the best game of all time.

[@mason11198]

This isn't that kind of channel

[@Cato76]

@@mason11198 yes it is and I have the proof

[@mason11198]

What proof? I haven't ever seen such video's, so I'd be interested to see what you're talking about.

[@Cato76]

@@mason11198 if I release it the CIA will kill me sorry

[@mason11198]

@@Cato76 sheeeeet

[@Cibohos]

I've never been the type to buy new devices as long as the old ones are functional enough, but once the bezel-less smartphones are an established product and all the problems of early implementation are solved, I'm planning to buy a flagship device and keep it till it inevitably dies, untill then, there will be no reason for me to upgrade.

[@leion800]

The cat-s61 has a thermal imager, air quality sensor, and laser measure, all in a water proof rugged she'll.