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Saturday, December 29, 2012

My Nexus 4 Is On The Way

Nexus 4 (Photo credit: chrispaton)

My Christmas gift to me was a seven inch tablet I bought online. It arrived promptly on the 24th. Now looks like my Nexus 4 gets to me on the last day of the month. Could not have imagined a better New Year gift. I am excited.

I am already in line for a bendable phone, though.

The Smartphone In Five Years
Nexus 4: My First Smartphone
An Hour Spent On Twitter
The Seven Incher
So I Got My Seven Inch Android Tablet

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Nexus 1 Anyone?

1.5 inches, eh? It is only a matter of time. Smartwatches will go mainstream. But if all you do on the smartwatch is read more of Twitter and Facebook, then that's not appealing. A smartwatch has got to be smarter than that.

Rumor: Apple Building Bluetooth Smart Watch

In-built health monitoring would be a good one. A health assistant who literally never leaves you.

If the smartwatch is too good will it have battery issues? Could you make phone calls? Should you be able to?

A smartphone you keep with you almost always. The smartwatch should not compete. Or the smartwatch should be able to know if your smartphone is around. If it is around the smartwatch leaves most of the action to the smartphone. But if your smartphone is not around, the smartwatch becomes more alive, takes up more of the functions, upto and including making phone calls. Or what?

The smartwatch talking to your other devices would be the best part.

The Smartphone In Five Years

Siri on the smartwatch would be nice.

The smartwatch would be a great input device for your other devices. But output and display should be left to your phone and tablet if they are around.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

The Smartphone In Five Years

What are we looking at?

Holographic keyboard and screen - no separate PC necessary
Transparent display option - goes on/off on command
Super light
Super fast
Wireless gigabit broadband, always on
Super strong
Super smart - an assistant that never goes to sleep and is always batting for you
Super battery - an embedded nuclear reactor for energy, or equivalent
Beyond touch, totally NUI, Natural User Interface, 3D
Limitless storage in the cloud, made possible because non unique stuff is shared
Unbreachable security, your phone can not be used by anyone else, protected by technology and global law

This is inevitable: the iPhone, 5 years into the future

Bendable Smartphones: That's Twisted

Begs the obvious question. Why would you want to bend your smartphone? Unless bendable means much lighter. Then light is good. And also if bendable means sturdier, strong is good.

First you get to bend it, then you get to roll it.

But you don't want it to get so thin that it becomes a martial art weapon. Well, it perhaps is a martial art weapon at any thickness. So that is a moot point.

Samsung preps 5.5-inch flexible phone screen for CES demo

although its demo screens curve without rending, they don't yet roll up. ..... Competitors LG and Nokia have also recently demonstrated bendy prototypes for smartphones and tablets. Pliable electronics are clearly a future trend.

Will the Samsung Galaxy S4 be 'unbreakable'?

the next batch of galactic goodies will pack a quad-core processor and 13-megapixel camera.... either the Galaxy S4 or Galaxy S5 will have bendable or even foldable displays by 2014. Just imagine, returning to the legacy of the flip phone with new folding or even "squishy" phones. I might even stand in line for a "koosh" phone.