Five Features To Expect In Future Smartphones

Five Features To Expect In Future Smartphones

Waterproofing Technology

No more fear of accidentally dropping your phone into a water body! New waterproofing technology in upcoming smartphones will be a superb feature.

While companies like P2i (Aridion), Liquipel, HzO (WaterBlock) have been providing this technology to phone manufacturing companies, the smartphones with this feature are yet to be launched. They are anticipated to be iPhone 7s, Samsung Galaxy S3s. Waterproofing is going to be a strong market differentiator.

Quick OS

With the advent of plethora of apps, the demand for faster and stronger operating system has raised. Android has already plunged into the opportunity and will be launching Android Nougat in the market soon. Currently, it's available on selected Motorola handsets only.

The best feature of this OS is capability to provide virtual reality experiences, multi-window view access for apps, multi language settings, doze mode for saving battery when phone is inactive and on the move and many more.

Biometric Password

The time is coming when one no longer need to remember any alpha/numeric password. The reason being the feature called ‘Ocular Scanning’ or ‘Eye Vein Biometrics’, which will be enabled in the future smartphones. It is anticipated to be launched by 2018.

Technology company called EyeVerify is exploring the development of this feature, which according to them is thrice more secure than fingerprint ID, which already exists in today’s smartphone like iPhone 5s, Xiaomi Mi Note 2 etc.

Voice Control

Since the launch of Siri’s speech recognition engine, the feature of voice control is gaining attention. Though the feature already exists in many mobile phones like iPhones, the development of advance voice control technology is still on and expected to hit the smartphone markets soon.

Seamless voice control combined with gestures are anticipated to bring interactivity of smartphones among users. That could be voice controls, which handle users’ commands of all types such as playing music, answering calls, booting app and other requests, enabling robotic elements into the phone’s personality.

Foldable Screens

You may have never imagined a foldable smartphone, but the technologists have already got on building one! Yes, it is possible. In order to enable smartphones with large screens for playing games and watching movies and at the same time keeping it portable for pockets, smartphone screens are made to be folded, using Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) technology.

This is a paper-thin screen whose both sides can be used at the same time, such as playing a video and while other side being used as a control. Samsung is expected to launch Galaxy X with a foldable screen technology.