2020 Innovations in Smartphones
5 smartphone innovations we want to see by 2020 What will the next five years bring? 1. ADVANCED SENSORS Future mobiles could recognise you by the tone of your voice, the pattern of your typing or even the way you walk. 2. INTELLIGENT HOME SCREENS In 2020, home screens should be built around advanced artificial intelligence, surfacing the apps and even the screens within those apps that we're most likely to want to use. 3. COLLAPSIBLE ELECTRONICS We hope that phones will be able to be folded, bent, scrunched and shrunk in all kinds of ways, adapting to the needs of users no matter what they happen to be doing at the time. It's perhaps a little ambitious to expect the manufacturers of the world to reach this target in the next five years, but it seems likely that the smartphones of the not-too-distant future will be able to morph between different form factors and sizes on demand: a widescreen tablet for watching movies, a standard smartphon...