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I've been picking up a big interest in this area lately, mainly because I've slowly been doing more and more tasks while outside of the home. Yet I'm curious how different phones and tablets will turn out years from now that will aid people in staying productive in smaller form factors. So, I guess what I want to know is, is there something you find difficult to do in a mobile setting that you'd like to see improved?

For example, I stumbled on this video a while back:

And it got me thinking about the future of laptops... supposing phones exponentially get better, what do you think about the idea of hooking up a phone to become a desktop station? It probably won't emulate the functions of advanced programs yet, but I see potential for making everyday browsing and apps a lot easier for someone who wants to maintain a light setup without the bulk of a laptop. Imagine going into a computer classroom and just hooking that phone up to a spare monitor or something. Sounds pretty neat to me.

And then there's typing with Surface, NFC on phones, etc... So yeah, what would you want, or what do you predict will happen to the tablet/phone market in the near future?

This post has been edited by Marshmallow: 23 June 2012 - 11:03 PM

Phones with guns

So I can like people on facebook through face recognition with a camera down the barrel

also a dildo phone. But one that actually looks like a dick, rather than just vibrating.

This post has been edited by Dr. Klaus: 24 June 2012 - 01:03 AM

Thinner and lighter frames, larger screens, LTE standard, faster processing power, better cameras and more disk space. Potential biometric security or something along those lines. The next real ingenuity will be something we can't even anticipate, which is why it would be "ingenious" at all.

I think more comprehensive information coordination in mobile apps are the best bet. Like, say, if grocery stores started updating their inventory and prices so that you could match their prices against your grocery list without having to set foot inside. If they compare themselves against other local stores, it might even result in the kind of price wars you see when gas stations sit across the street from each other.

Actual battery life that lasts more than a day.

Back in the day I would have had all sorts of ideas to contribute to this thread. I used to write a blog about this stuff, after all.

I think that there's only so much that can be done that's not incremental and evolutionary. Of course, I want an iPhone with a one-week battery that's as thin as an iPod touch with LTE, 512gb space and a DSLR-quality camera. That will happen eventually. As will some of the evolutionary software stuff - an automatically-updating OS with perfect speech recognition, a Siri that really does do whatever you want, syncing that works all the time with all your apps and media, so on and so on

I think the idea of using your phone in a dock is stupid as hell. It's dated nonsense. Who cares where a CPU lies? If you're sitting down in front of a display, why shouldn't that display have the CPU? If you're using any computer in the world, why isn't it going to suck down all your information from the internet?

Edit: Never mind. I wrote more for this post but my computer crashed. SHOULD HAVE DONE IT IN IOS WITH AUTO SAVE