Gadgetory

hey what is up guys I'm candy HD here and we all have goals right hashtag goals but smartphones also have goals or at least we have smartphone goals we see all these crazy concept renders of the iPhone 8 and they look ridiculous obviously but in the coming months they're going to be more and more popular and like clockwork in August and September this year it will be peak iPhone rumour hypetrain season and these videos will be the ones that are shared the most but I think everyone kind of knows or at least most people know that that's not actually the next iPhone but we are taking steps to get closer to that reality so for proof these are five super distant future smartphone features and their roots in today's product so number one is the bezel if display concept I mean look at this just look I mean this is a dream for some people right now you might think about it for an extra second or two and realize wait a second there's no place for my fingers like there might be accidental screen presses or where did the webcam go where's the speaker's now but just ignore all that for a second and just look at it this edit core is an awesome concept that looks cool you can't help but stare at it videos would look awesome on the screen taking pictures would look crazy like it just looks like this feature now Samsung knows that and they made this the galaxy s7 edge last year not only does the display and the glass wraparound right up to the edge of the phone but they dropped in some actually pretty useful edge display features too so the whole UI really melts over the edges looks pretty futuristic plus obviously videos and photos look cool too and Samsung also made the Galaxy Note 7s way but we all know how that ended up but I'd expect more of that whole edge display stuff in the Galaxy Note 8 and the Galaxy S 8 and then you all saw the video of the xiaomi knee mix which pushes the bezel with display concepts a little further right up to the point where it pushed the webcam and the earpiece speaker right off the top of the phone now the webcam actually returned down at the bottom which is a little awkward but not the worst thing in the world since you can turn the phone upside down but the earpiece speaker didn't return instead they built in what's called a piezoelectric speaker which vibrates the glass on the front of the phone itself to produce sound that you hear when you put it up to your ear and actually works pretty well all of that to achieve a display that just goes right up to the edge of the device worth it so bottom line edge to edge that is a thing it might not be exactly like the concept but it still looks really cool and realize overall I give the feasibility of this concept and eight out of ten so number two is the future of wireless charging so we always want our phones to be charged up right and wires are fine and they work in everything but a bunch of phones now have wireless charging where you can place your compatible phone on a compatible little pad without any wires and your phone is charging I mean technically there's still a wire connecting it to the wall but technically there's no wire it's connected to your phone so we'll call it wireless charging but you still have to have your phone in like one exact little spot to charge and you can't even really take it up and use it without it stopping the charge so it's almost less convenient than wired charging the dream is just to be able to walk into a room with your phone and it's wire looks like charging just like that you don't even have to worry about it but that's a long way off what we do have in development today is somewhere in between long-range wireless charging is what it's called and I don't think we'll ever safely get to that whole full-on walk into a room and start charging gold but various companies are working on long-range wireless charging with stuff like lasers with ultrasound even and with radiofrequency so there's a bunch of ways to do this whole wireless charging thing from a couple inches to a couple feet away the biggest challenge with this one is definitely compatibility though even now we have a bunch of different wireless charging standards among smartphones but I think a pretty good bet is whichever Apple chooses for their next wireless charging iPhone the first one that they do will have a pretty big impact on the future like I said one of the reasons Apple got rid of the headphone jack on the iPhone 7 is that's another step marching towards their eventual goal of a completely port las' completely wireless iPhone somewhere down the line in order to get to that they eventually have to remove that last port which is a charging port and in order to do that you need wireless charging overall I'm giving us concept a 7 out of 10 so number three is voice control of all the things and I really like this one I actually think voice control is pretty good as it already is and it's useful for a lot of people but I think the goal the real goal is to have this sort of closest as possible to a all-knowing human-like personal assistant I've ever listened to logics the incredible true story where they're just on the spaceship and he's asking the computer a bunch of random facts and things to do and it knows to do everything even how to make jokes and just upgrade features the enhanced ray I was thinking actually hold a conversation yeah after yourself Oh what am I think about hi I'm a program in the ship's interface not a psychic big room yeah that's another thing now that I think that right there is the ideal voice assistant in its most helpful form so with enough computing power and a complete enough knowledge graph you can actually do almost all of that maybe not said making jokes part but that's kind of a bonus but the hardest part of what the computer actually did in that album was listening to two different people recognizing them and then responding to each of them differently based on what it knows about each person that is the hard part it's the same thing that happens with the computer in Star Trek our phones today are supposed to be able to recognize your voice and respond to you and not others yet for most people I can just sit right here in this chair and go okay Google hey Siri and like half of you probably just had your phone go off not even sorry so even with enough training voice recognition between multiple people as the only difference is really really hard not to mention it's super easy to take someone's voice by not just sounding like them but with a recording so half of this goal is kind of realistic and half seems really far off I'll give it like a 5 out of 10 now number four is this one's crazy flexible smartphone every single flexible smartphone demo I've seen looks crazy in some way the goal is to have a completely flexible smartphone you can just wrap around anything shape for whatever you want folded put it in your pocket I don't know wrap it around your wrist there's all kinds of things you could do with a flexible smartphone but I don't think this one happens anytime soon for a bunch of reasons why number one in order to have a flexible smartphone you don't just need a flexible display you need every single component inside the smartphone to be flexible too and we have flexible displays as you've probably already seen but you'll notice that every single one of those is connected to some sort of brick at the bottom or the end a brick that holds you know the rest of the smartphone the processor the RAM the storage the battery none of which are flexible at all but - even when you just think about something folding in half you have two surfaces and that means the surface on the inside where it folds needs to be able to compress and the surface on the outside needs to be able to stretch and if you fold both ways both sides need to be able to do both all that makes a very malleable material which means it's not very durable just not a good recipe for building a smartphone at oh so that's why pretty much every flexible smartphone demo is really just a flexible display demo now lenovo did make a flexible smartphone concept last year like a fully flexible phone in one direction and it kind of had its internal components spread out and laid out just perfectly so that you could fold it along certain predetermined lines but obviously that's a lot uglier and a lot less useful than the goals we had in mind plus I'm not even sure a flexible smartphone is what we really want anyway so overall I give this one about a 4 out of 10 so number 5 last but definitely not least is a battery technology breakthrough I know this is the second one about batteries since we have wireless charging but hey batteries are kind of a pain point with smartphones and this one's more of a longshot than any but graphene battery we can work with lithium technology all we want and it'll keep getting better as it does we get little density increases we get better layouts charging it's a little bit faster new designs like stacked battery cells are awesome but at the end of the day they're powering more and more powerful devices and through years and years and years of development our smart phones still last one day if we're lucky so there's always articles and talks about some breakthrough battery technology that might not be lithium based at all not lithium-ion not looking polymer just completely new graphene is one of the most promising materials out there if you haven't heard of it it's definitely worth reading up on it's essentially just a sheet of pure carbon atoms that's just one atom thick so basically a 2d material in this form it's completely transparent when it's just in it has a ridiculous strength to weight ratio light as air but literally harder than diamond and it's one of the most electrically conductive materials - even more than copper that we already use everywhere so people want to use graphene to make all kinds of stuff in all kinds of different industries if we could make smartphone batteries out of this kind of thing or car batteries or any battery we could get almost superconductor like performance and possibly have charging up in seconds while the charge lasts for weeks I mean that's the goal so the reason we're not going to see it super soon is the manufacturing prowess to make this stuff is not there like at all the first way humans ever found graphene was by taking some scotch tape taking some graphite off the pencil and just peeling it apart over and over again to get thinner and thinner slices until some flakes happen to be that sheet of one-atom-thick graphene but that's not even producing graphene that's just stripping carbon sheets from the end of a pencil tip the most efficient manufacturing processes today can make a sheet of graphene that's maybe the size of a playing card or an index card for a little under a thousand dollars but that's still very little material because it's only one atom thick as you can imagine it's very very hard to many facts your materials that are one atom thick overall I give this for feasibility about a two out of ten so there you have it stuff from the future versus stuff we have now maybe let me know which one you're most excited for personally I'm all on board with the super thin side bezels also take the top and bottom bezel I like front facing speakers I don't mind those but out give me those this is melting over glass sides I'm kind of a big fan of that either way that's minute thank you for watching feel free to share this video and I'll talk to you guys in the next one