It’s anyone’s guess as to what features, functions, form factor and technologies a future 5th Generation (5G) cell phone might have, and so the following predictions might be supercilious or maybe not …
- High-end smartphones in 2025 will have 16 Terabytes of memory and operate at 70 Teraflops (see Moore’s Law).
- They will be the size of a sugar cube or less, and be built into a ring or perhaps a tooth.
- They will have multi-multi terabyte flash or hard drives.
- These devices will come pre-loaded with all the worlds’ movies, TV shows, or videogames.
…We’re thinking it’s going to be tough playing all those vidgames from your tooth.
Ottawa and 20 year future of mobile telecoms - by Tomi Ahonen June 14, 2005
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December 26th, 2006 at 2:37 am
[...] In a wordy article, the normally to-the-point Economist burns up 2388 words in the course of which they extrapolate on the future of the cell phone. Basically they say that phones of the future will be similar to, but much better than, the phones of today, unless of course they’re totally different in an unexpected way. See 5G Predictions for the condensed version. [...]