The day after the smartphone: scenarios in the evolution of mobile devices
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https://doi.org/10.24137/raeic.5.10.4Keywords:
Messaging Applications, Functional Evolution, Mobile Mediated Interactions, Mobile Ecosystem, Nested PlatformsAbstract
A decade after the launch of Apple’s iPhone, smartphones have become the basic and central device of personal communication and access to the network. However, the signs of maturity that are beginning to appear in the main markets and the fact that technological evolution continues, it indicates that smartphones will be replaced by some device whose form and functions we do not know yet. In this article we analyze the possible scenarios of a post-smartphone stage, with hypotheses about the evolution of usability, the form and access platforms that substitution technologies could bring. This prospective on the future of mobile communications takes into account some of the technologies already available or emerging ones such as Artificial Intelligence systems, 5G networks, 3D printing, speech recognition systems or new materials.
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