The interesting thing about the progress of handphones is the growth curve in size. A long long time back the standard handphone was this rather enormous thing, rectangular and thick, made of solid black plastic with huge buttons and a prominent antenna on the top. This slowly shrank down to the still solid but smaller Nokia 3310, the venerable dreadnought of the phone world, with toughness comparable to Wolverine's claws. It then got even smaller, before swinging up the opposite way and becoming rather large - if you've seen one of those Samsung Galaxy whatevers you will know they can really double as a table tennis racket. So what is the next stage in handphone evolution?
Some have bet that it will trend back down in size, giving us the Samsung Gear, a wearable smartwatch. Others have chosen to continue increasing it in size, as we can see from the inexorable growing iPhones. I, on the other hand, believe that the next paradigm leap in phones should be the ability to impose its power on the surroundings. Imagine a phone capable of projection:
You could use it to watch Godzilla, unhampered by the size of the screen. Another use for it would be to send a signal to the skies in a crowded area to summon your friends to gather:
I firmly believe that this would add vastly to user experience, thus cementing the next step of progress for humanity's usage of small electronic devices.
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