These smart phones have basically run out of innovation at this point.

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Expect heavy focus on battery life this year as all the OEMs are stuck with 28nm chips till next year[we'll see if TMSC can actually deliver on those iPhone 6 rumors], so they can't do stupid shyt like put 2560x1600 screens in phones[bar LG] just for show. They actually have to go back to the drawing board and try to come up with innovative(lol) smartphone features. It's also getting harder, and will continue to get harder to justify annual and bi-annual upgrades since the longer they stay on a process node, the cheaper the manufacturing process and parts get, leading to cheap phones with flagship specs[see cyanogen's 1+1] and/or really cheap/good entry level smartphones[see motorola G]. So people will simply hold on to their phone a lot longer on some "my shyt does the same shyt as the new one" mindset, and see no reason to spend $200/$600 just to browse facebook .5 seonds faster.
 

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Hitting the wall is good that means someones going to step us up to the next level.
 

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battery life is the next step in the foreseeable future. besides that and the marginal speed upgrades every gen theres not much more to do :yeshrug:

but the next REAL step is AI. when siri can really respond and intelligently answer questions or do anything you need, that's something to look forward to.
 

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crazy.. I was just thinking this shyt when I saw the S5 commercial "with built in heart monitor"

I was :dwillhuh: at my TV screen like :dwillhuh: thats supposed to be the big new selling feature :dwillhuh:
 

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1+1 shyt is huge.. flag ship specs at half the price.. but it needs to blow up to really make htc. lg. sony. Samsung do something..


google rumored to b releasing a entry level nexus at less than 100..


pricing is the next big thing
 

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1+1 shyt is huge.. flag ship specs at half the price.. but it needs to blow up to really make htc. lg. sony. Samsung do something..


google rumored to b releasing a entry level nexus at less than 100..


pricing is the next big thing

that's hustling backwards. they have pushed premium devices for years and now they're going to put out a cheaper product?

I think for the short term it will be about who has the hardware powerful enough to support more advanced apps. You got companies that only make one app getting insane valuations. I think the apps is the next bubble.
 

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...The future is coming. :krs:
 

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:mjpls: just imagine someone dropping the first one. The case alone is gonna run peoples pockets. And how are you gonna use that phone on a sunny day? And that wrist shyt looks goofy as hell. Those are useless gagets.

turn the screen opaque like density or something... yeah the screen better be bulletproof too.... :russ:
 
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