Smartphones are evolving.

So I've spent the last week hands-on with some pretty hidden but at the same time pretty revolutionary smartphone and smartphone technologies, so here are seven awesome things to look forward to. Remember that crazy iPhone 6 concept with the built-in smartphone? projector and laser typing keyboard looked like something out of a sci-fi movie, but less than 10 years later, we actually have something better. Samsung showed us its selfie-like feature for its users, just your phone's selfie camera to create a virtual keyboard, but instead of firing a laser that would need a perfectly flat surface to work and would consume a ton of battery, this sticker on It actually tracks the movement of your fingers, which means it doesn't really matter what you've done, just the gestures you've made.

While you're doing your fingers, I had an exclusive time with this smartphone concept from a company called Sin Soul and you'll see what I mean when I say it's pretty revolutionary, so this is a company that works on creating sensors of touch force that can be placed under a surface and detect not only touch but also pressure and have worked with a company called vision ox to create a prototype phone to really show you what this means, there are some obvious benefits, such as no need for physical buttons on the sides of your phone. but the more I use this technology, the more I started to realize all the potential for beginners.

Having purely software-based buttons means you can configure everything, which buttons are displayed, how up and down they are so you can reach them easier, and even which side. the phone they're on, suddenly left-handed users can have a phone that feels like it has them in mind, but that's relatively basic when I said these sensors can detect pressure, I didn't just mean that they can distinguish between a hard pressure and a soft one, they can capture around 3000 levels of pressure, which creates some interesting news cases. We at the company are demonstrating the idea of ​​using pressure to review a video and using it just makes sense instead of playing around dragging a progress bar at the bottom of your video, you can just press it to go forward or back and the harder you press, the more You will advance quickly through the video.

In a gaming scenario you could be running and the more pressure you apply on the pedals the more of a response you would get, let's say you are in the camera app you can rotate your phone and with this your shutter button can always rotate to stay in the correct position, plus your little fan gains the ability to focus with a light press on the shutter. and then take a photo by pressing harder like you used to on a DSLR and there were a ton of demos like this, but how does this technology relate to the next generation of phones?

Well, the company offers a full sheet of these sensors which means you can give the entire screen, including the curved edges of a phone, this ability to detect pressure. You can think of it as your smartphone suddenly having access to another dimension of touch information and being able to understand which screen our accidental touches, which our just touches. from palms resting on the screen and which ones are intentional and this will be vital as we start to see screens that completely envelop our devices, current smartphone capacitive screen technology responds only to your fingers, while the Using sensors like this means you could use a stylus, even a paintbrush if you wanted, and although capacitive screens suffer all kinds of hell in challenging environments like water, this isn't because their pressure sensors can simply ignore the slightest bottom water pressure and concentrate on what is most difficult. pressure coming from your fingers, in theory you could even add this technology behind the glass on the back of your phone, allowing you to scroll through pages or activate gestures without moving your thumbs on all the sensors, he showed me how it works literally under any material that has the potential. to flex so it would even work with wood or leather finishes and from what I'm told the technology has gotten to a level where you can get a basic implementation on a phone for five to ten bucks like the bezels and buttons on our phones have melted over the years, the screen has become an almost central interaction with our technology, so this will be essential, especially when combined with another piece of technology that I will show you in wait a moment if, by the way, you are enjoying it. video, a sub would be awesome before we move on to that other part of the technology, although number five is ECM F for electronic colors, materials and finishes based on a positive concept, a smartphone.

I can definitely see ferns in a few years being shipped with a finish that can be transformed. As of now, OnePlus showed off cameras that can be hidden by tinting the glass in front of them, but you could see this going further: Imagine a device that ships with a clear glass back panel that can then change color to match. The wallpaper you apply on the front number for charging is about to become a lot less of a concern. There's a good chance you've heard of something called gallium nitride. Well, there are a bunch of companies like Ankur that are about to go crazy with this compound.

Gallium nitride can be used in fillers. As a replacement for silicon, one that charges faster wastes less energy and can do all this in a smaller physical space, so, for example, this little brick offers 18 watts of power, almost four times more than the Apple brick of five watts, and as these larger gallium nitride bricks are manufactured, the power output increases dramatically. My personal prediction is that at least some

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, either this year or next, will start shipping with gallium nitride charges. ultrafast gallium in the box. The other side of that coin is a material called graphene which We've just started to see in portable power banks that graphene can be charged at a much higher power without damage, so this five thousand graphene power bank milliamp hours can go from zero to 100 percent in just 18 minutes as this technology makes its way to

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I expect a similar jump. Foldable phones are about to go mainstream and we've already seen foldable devices, but the reason I say this now is based on what I just saw happen in the PC market: this year's Consumer Electronics Show saw the introduction of devices. like Dells concept ori and lenovo thinkpad x1 fold, which seem to have already solved many of the problems we saw in the first generation foldables. Lenovo's hinge mechanism, for example, allows the device to stay in place mid-fold and has a mechanism to keep screen creasing to an absolute minimum. Companies like Samsung for Wish Homie and CL and many more are likely to announce their own foldable devices this year and will have learned from last year's setbacks by creating devices that are more durable. more affordable and, most importantly, more useful now also at the Consumer Electronics Show I managed to find a hidden gem: a smartphone based on technologies that I had never seen in a smartphone before.

It's from a company called HAP that developed the touch interface concept and this builds further on the pressure sensors that I showed you earlier. I should clarify that this technology already exists in a very basic form on most small phones when you receive a call, your phone vibrates when you type on its virtual keyboard. a haptic response, the difference here is that this touch technology allows us to localize the haptics instead of the entire phone vibrating with each action. This company has developed a system that can dynamically adjust the friction right under your finger, which has two main benefits: You save. battery because this haptic feedback now only needs a specific location and, more importantly, allows you to feel the texture on your business screen, but if you are listening to music, your phone is in your pocket, even when the screen is off .

I could reach into your pocket and feel a virtual key to skip the tracks. The booth I went to had a couple of demos on how it would affect gameplay, and while the demo itself was basic, the impact this tactility had on the experience was a world apart. I tried a fruit ninja style app and I could literally feel the impact of cutting through hard fruit under my finger. There is also a fish demo where I could feel subtle micro-vibrations under each scale I turned, why this technology? Importantly, remember I said we're going to start seeing the physical buttons on your smartphones disappear.

Having a touch surface means that in the same way you feel a physical button, you can now feel your virtual buttons as screens get bigger and bigger. central to our smartphones and smart devices, being able to sense through them could be the next big step. Let's take that foldable Dan instead of a laptop that I talked about earlier and probably my biggest reservation about it, why I wouldn't use it, is because I prefer the feel and travel of a physical mechanical keyboard versus a virtual one, that being said, With this type of technology that allows you to feel the texture, it is entirely possible that we could eventually have a virtual keyboard that feels like a physical one with all the advantages of the virtual keyboard.

It is infinitely more portable, instantly customizable and able to adapt, send emojis, gifts and all the cool things we have become accustomed to Now, when smartphones started appearing, many people complained about the change to virtual keys, but today in Today most people would find it difficult to go back to physical, so that is touch technology and who knows, maybe even in the future content can be created with this tactility in mind. Let's say you were planning to buy a car online ten years from now, it's entirely possible that you can feel the texture of the car. through the screen of their smartphones, just a thought on the topic of screens, time and again recently they made a statement that their upcoming one plus eight pro smartphone will have the best screen you will see in 2020.

They are working with Samsung to create a screen. that can refresh 120 times per second (we've seen this before on the phone, but this time it's different) it will be an OLED display which also has the advantage of higher contrast levels it will have a 240 Hertz touch response that 240 times per second scans for see where your finger is and that compares to 120 times per second on an iPhone and software that can add frames to the videos you're watching to make them look even smoother on one side. This is incredible. I love it. using high refresh rate displays I hope this works as well as they promise but we will have to see how it affects the battery life because that has always been my reservation with this technology showing extra frames consumes more battery, we noticed this when oneplus It jumped last year from 60 Hertz to 90 Hertz, so going from 90 to 120 along with this software that will now consume even more battery, insert extra frames into videos is risky and will result in one of three ways the a1 plus ends with a fantastic screen in a The phone with terrible battery life b1 plus ends up with a fantastic screen but has to fit a huge 5,000+ milliamp hour battery inside, making it thicker and more expensive than the year past or c1 plus figure out how to solve the battery consumption problem and somehow we managed it. only time will tell if you enjoyed this video so I spent a lot of time putting one together about all the things you didn't know about Google so I'll link to it from here and with that being said my The name is was and this is the sir who is the boss and I'll see you in the next one.