Monday, 27 January 2014
Few Smartphone Predictions for New Year 2014!
Last year we were introduced to a variety of cool tech's in the mobile world. Many parameters have changed the meaning of the Smartphone, where high resolution 1080P displays left us with a question whether anything can be more sharper and real to eyes and quard core processors have dominated every Smartphones, moreover some camera have given challenge to
the professional DSLR. As we know a lot was introduced in 2013 and so
here are the 5 predictions for the 2014 in tech devices.
1. Curved Screen
In the
end of 2013 we got a lot of hearings on curved OLED display for many
smart devices, where Samsung's Galaxy Round and LG's G Flex introduced
how it would look and work, yet each company trails a new form factor in
their home nation of Korea but in 2014 mostly will push curved screen
devices in western countries too. However, it's unclear what the advantage would curved display will carry than that of flat display.
2. Shift to 64-Bit
As we all know Apple has introduced us to Apple A7 SoC, used in newly released Iphone 5s,
iPad mini and iPad Air. It was also the first ARM chip introduced to
consumer devices with 64-bit address and as the news spread, companies
such as Qualcomm and Samsung rapidly blench into action, revealing their
next SoC's would be 64-bit capable and based on ARMv8-A structure.
However, few of like the Snapdragn 410 are proved not to be a high-end
chip, where Cortex-A53 is the successor to that of Cortex-A7 that means
It won't be as powerful as Cortex-A15 or other ARM CPU cores, However,
it is scheduled for release in the second half of 2014 for Smartphones
3. Display Beyond 1080p
We were introduced with a lot of Smartphones with 1080p resolution, but can you think of having beyond that, well many people said 720p to 1080p was a benifit. However, progressing higher to 1920x1080 seems to have fewest benifits as 1080p already look like paper. In spite of this fact, companies like Samsung and LG are looking ahead for 2560x1440 display and in 2014 we're likely to see few handsets with this feature.
4. More Operating Systems
Although
android has occupied a major chunk of the mobile OS, same will carry in
2014 but likely there would be more to add-up with the launch of few
more operating systems with something differrent,
or promising to change the way we use mobile devices. However, many of
them will be Linux variants and would be targeting low-end devices which
yet to be exploited. Some like Firfox OS, Sailfish OS, BlackBerry 10,
Ubuntu Touch, Tizen and many others we have heard in 2013. But still
Android, iOS and Windows phone will remain the big dogs for time to come, however they too will keep on bringing some innovation in their devices to give good competition to their competitors.
5. Cheaper Is Better
All the companies have tried their best to offer decent hardware at a low price and the Google Nexus 5 was up with fantastic display for just $350, and the Nexus 7 also proved once again that 7-inch
tablet can be cheaper and same did the Moto G. Well, let's not forget
the Windows phone either, where Nokia's Lumia 520 was tagged with one of
the bestselling Smartphones of the year. However, same in 2014 Google's camp will continue with the cheap Nexus devices as they have much more to offer with the new Android 4.4 KitKat too.
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