Modular Phones the Future of Smartphone
Model Your Phone According to Your Likes and Dislike
What the future holds for Smartphone is unimaginable. Most people spend a lot of money to own a new phone and within weeks of their getting hold of their desired one, a new phone is released in the market. The Smartphone market is always getting something new or the other. The industry is booming with novel and innovative products that entice buyers.
Buyers are willing to spend anything to own a good phone. Moreover, gadgets become a status symbol and everyone wants to have the best they can get. Is it worth all the trouble a buyer goes through to keep up with the trends in the market? A person may have the best phone, when a new device is launched with a new add-on, it is worth replacing the old one.
The future of the Smartphone industry now may lie in modular phones. A person may choose the kind of phone he would like to own. With so many features available in the market, a buyer could choose to have a particular feature that he likes in his old phone. Modular phone could become popular in the future. The parts of an old phone could be replaced with new ones to get all the best features available in the market wrapped into one.
This concept allows reduction of e-Waste and helps the environment. Instead of replacing the old phone and get the new features by replacing the parts making the phone up to date. This is not the only advantage; replacements of specific parts are more cost effective than purchasing a new one.
Google has ventured into modular Smartphone's with their project Ara. It could be said that modular phones are going to be game changers in the communication industry. Many manufacturers would want to begin making modular phone. You place the order of what you want in your phone and it will be made for you.
Asus Transfomer Book V is an all in one product that works as a laptop, tablet and a Smartphone. Buyers look for gadgets that are simple. Asus provides switching from an Android platform to a Windows. The technology is very new but it could change the Smartphone into a PC of the future.
Most Smartphone users are at some time or the other frustrated by poor signal. It would be a welcoming relief to know that contact could be made with another person even if there is no network or signal available. GoTenna is one such gadget that has a lithium ion powered battery that connects to other device with Bluetooth. It has a radio that transmits on low frequency within a distance of 50 miles. So messages could be sent to anybody within that range even without signals. This device is priced at $300 but most probably in the future a cheaper version will be released that can be inbuilt in a phone.
3D printing has become very popular and people are using this to print anything that they want. Nokia has already released a CAD file to print the Nokia Lumia 820 casing. 3D printing is very expensive why not include that in a modular Smartphone.
Battery life is the main concern of any buyer. Samsung S5 uses the feature Ultra Powersaving Mode that allows 10 per cent battery usage in a standby time of 24 hours. There many others like Wysips, a product that turns your phone into a solar panel. It uses a method called Li-Fi for receiving and transmitting data through light waves.
In the past 10 years, the mobile industry has undergone tremendous change and big things are yet to come. May be in future mobile parts will be available for purchase on line. A buyer can pick and choose the parts, pattern colour and the feature he wants in a device making it bigger and better.