The Self-Healing Smartphones!

oh no, oh that's bad so I've spent the last few months collecting six of some of the most extravagant

smartphones

you've ever seen and each of them has a very different vision of what the future will be so the number six is ​​the moto z and you. Know how

smartphones

now measure eight nine millimeters like 7.5 on a really good day. Well, this is 5.2. It's one of the thinnest smartphones in the world because it's easy to forget that just a few years ago that was the game companies were thinking about. the future was oh my god I'm going to be honest with you holding this in my hands right now I understand it like this it doesn't even feel real it feels like something is missing it just so happens that for smartphones being thin stopped being cool let's go back seven years and every company was trying to make each design thinner than the last.

I remember the day when if a company released a phone that was thicker than their latest model, people would say, what are you doing? They would boo. On stage it would look like they were moving backwards so it was really only a matter of time before someone had durability issues and the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus were those phones, if you put enough pressure on the chassis, They could be folded in half, so almost overnight the appeal of thin phones went away and even though I'm literally sitting here chirping about this phone when the Moto Z came out, no one cared about thinness.

Well, phone number two. You know, when I say the word foldable phone right now, you probably think of the Samsung Galaxy Z4 2 or the Motorola Razer, but just a few years ago you would have thought of something more like this, the ZTE Axon M was what he thought of. moment that was the future oh, it's actually quite pretty packaging, I guess like you. Which was to be expected given that this was one of the most expensive phones you could buy at the time and I will say that with this phone there were a lot of good decisions as these stickers weren't one of them, the dual screen meant you could run two applications at the same time in full screen great, could be used as a book with the bezel serving as a divider in the middle also great, also, listen to this hinge, ah, so why didn't it take off well like current foldables do? in 2020, I think it's because people didn't really need it.

Android as a whole was built to be able to do everything with a single full-sized screen, and so up until this point, foldable devices have basically been hardware companies that have decided I want to build a foldable device and then try to find reasons. why an average consumer might want one rather than there being an inherent problem that needs to be fixed, they talked about how you can play two different videos at the same time, but since you can only listen to one of them at a given time, what useful is, I suppose, if you had two different sporting events broadcast at the same time and you only wanted to listen to one of them, maybe, but it's a bit of a way, they showed how a screen can be used to reflect what's happening on the other, why would you want to mirror what's happening on one phone's screen on the screen of another phone right next to it?

So yes, while I believe in foldables, I really want to do that again until one comes out that isn't noticeably more expensive than a regular phone or one that can actually solve a problem that currently exists. I don't think they work and follow a very similar line of dual screen devices this is the yota 3 plus it is the latest phone made by the yota company that tried to take over the smartphone market by providing people with a normal screen on the front and one electronic ink on the back. I kind of watched this company for a while from a distance, I never actually got the phones but I've been fascinated by them so it's a little crazy, although right now in front of us we have the most advanced model they've ever created, its packaging impressive and its appearance. something you would keep in a library, it's actually a book, wow, that's a very interesting way to present something, let's see if there's anything more interesting here, it's pretty standard, say what you want about the yota company, but these guys had a vision. the guys really believed in e-ink and I can see it, I can see the power of it instead of using a traditional display for which each pixel has to be illuminated individually and continuously, the ink basically pushes these little capsules of color into whatever.

It takes training and once they are in training not a single watt of power is consumed, so if you drew something on an ink screen you could leave it there for a year and it would probably still be there when you came back, plus as a bonus, You know that normally your phone screen struggles with sunlight, the ink becomes more readable in sunlight. Imagine being able to do things with a smartphone, like Google Maps navigation on a screen that consumes almost no power, it's tempting, but do you know the problem with this? The idea is the fact that it is Android.

With something like a Kindle, you can squeeze incredible battery life out of any Ink display, but Android is a power-hungry operating system, so even if you use your Ink display, it uses a fraction of the power of the normal , the rest of your phone, which is like 70 of your power consumption, continues to function normally. your gps, your data connection, your apps in the background, none of that stops, so you can probably imagine that battery saving is the main selling point of this whole concept was not as revolutionary as initially claimed and I have a whole video that actually talks about the mess the Yota company got into, but for now you can see why the concept failed.

Well, augmented reality, as you've probably noticed, has gotten a little better every year, slowly becoming something that I dare say is actually useful. Well, Google had this exact vision in 2014. They saw that AR was going to be huge and so they created an entire protocol to allow companies to build phones that could use phones that could detect their exact position in relation to the world around them. . Google called it Project Tango. They basically said that companies look at if you put these particular sensors on your phone in this particular way, then you will be able to get Project Tango certification and you will be able to be compatible with this next world of ar and asus is one of the few companies that heard this is in actually one of the two devices ever released to support project tango the zenfone ar so actually on the side you can see the project tango sticker there is quite a weird surprise screen protector.

Oh, it's actually a very stylish glass screen protector. You can tell Asus really put some care and love into this, like these are some pretty headphones. There's something else here too, it's just a hard plastic case. At first glance, the failure of the Tango project is confusing, it was backed by Google. You can see why it is useful and we use AR today. If Google already created this in 2014, then surely the AR we have today is based on that. Well, no. It's actually pretty fun, so shortly after launching project tango and telling developers to start adopting it on their phones, Google realized that they could actually do the same thing without those extra sensors and ended up calling it ar core and that's what many phones do.

Use it today, which, as you can probably imagine, is not good news for Project Tango phones. I've been saving the two best ones until last. This is a phone that I have wanted to unbox since I saw it announced in 2013. This is the LG G Flex now, unlike the name suggests, unfortunately it is not a flexible phone, but seeing that it is curved, this phone is a perfect example of how in 2013 smartphone manufacturers did not have as many staff as they needed. To make your phone, the concept is pretty simple, your hands, your palms are curved, your face is curved, so let's build something that fits around it.

I can totally imagine LG sitting in a boardroom scratching their head thinking this could be what people want, maybe Try it, oh yeah, and the material LG ended up choosing for the back of the phone heals it

self

, it has an atomic arrangement such that it is in a really stable equilibrium and if you disturb that equilibrium slightly, it can return to equilibrium in theory in At least, but let's try it, I'm just going to give it a good scratch with this knife, it's a very sharp blade, I don't want to do this, it's a very strange phone, okay, no, no, oh, that's bad, okay, here.

Take a look at that scratch actually pretty clear. I'm going to rub it in, let's see what happens 12 seconds later. I think the takeaway from this is that it's not surprising, however, what makes it better is the fact that we get a second. call the lg g flex 2. and the cool thing about this is that they basically took the

self

-

healing

capabilities of the first phone and supposedly improved it; It could supposedly heal in seconds instead of minutes and simply be able to heal more damage. Almost psychedelic looking packaging and you can see that they've actually adopted the curve of the phone on the box itself, that's a cool touch, well so we have the phone and nothing of interest, so compared to the first model, it is actually much smaller. and overall it's a little more subtle in design and the curve looks pretty much the same in terms of how pronounced it is, but the most important thing is that we give it a scratch, okay, nice old scratch there, I feel Like I'm doing a magic trick, okay? it feels like it's lighter, there are some improvements, you can definitely see that the scratch seems less deep.

It would have been really interesting to see how much LG could have improved this with future generations, let's say they made four or five more LG G Flex. phones where they could be now would be really impressive, so why did self-

healing

phones disappear? Because surely if they perfected that technique that sounds like a dream, well, it's because glass arrived. Apple had already used glass for quite some time in its phones, but as soon as Samsung made the switch with its Galaxy S6, it pushed all the reluctant Android phone makers to follow suit - they knew they couldn't make a phone that looked so premium. like the samsung one if they only depended on plastics and that note I would like to know what you think what would be your ideal smartphone finish plastic glass metal wood something else let me know anyway if you enjoyed this video and the subs the channel would be amazing my name is aaron This is the man who is the boss and I will see you in the next one.