What is our future phones?

(1) what's coming our way?

The mobile phones of the future are expected to be more closely embedded in our day-to-day lives than ever before.

Some futurologists and industry experts predict that in years to come mobile phones will become remote controls for our whole lives, while others forecast that in the future mobile phones will literally run our lives for us.

One thing’s for certain: the technology involved in mobile phones and mobile networks has developed so rapidly over the last few years, it's going to be an exciting ride.

(2)what's in store for us?

Concept phones are a great way of getting a glimpse at how phones of the future may develop.

Holographic displays

From Star Wars to Ironman, holograms have long been a regular feature in sci-fi and futuristic fantasy .
Holographic phones could one day be a reality though. Especially if the Holoflex prototype showcased by researchers from Queen’s University in Canada is anything to go by.

As the name suggests, the HoloFlex is both holographic and flexible, allowing users to bend the handset to view the 3D display from different angles and interact with the images on screen.

Touted as the world’s first holographic, flexible smartphone, the HoloFlex is still in development and won’t be available any time soon.

Flexible frames

For a long time now, phone companies have talked of creating a smartphone that is so robust that it can actually be folded in two by the user.

One such vision was Nokia's The Morph phone, which was showcased back in 2008 and promised to "transform the user's experience".


Designed by Tapani Tyhanen, who was director and head of Nokia's Research Center Laboratory in Cambridge, The Morph could be folded, bent and reshaped to suit the user’s needs.

You could snap The Morph apart, and slot in additional modules to change the way you use the phone.

The Morph phone could be wrapped around your wrist, transformed into a GPS-enabled belt clip for hiking and extreme sports, or used as a flat screen for watching videos.
Similarly, Samsung has been showing off flexible concept phones at trade shows for years now, but so far, the closest it has come to bringing the technology to market was the Galaxy Round smartphone.

This featured a significantly less jaw-dropping curved screen and sold disappointingly.

Eductional tools


Some experts believe that in the not too distant future, mobiles will change the way we learn and teach.

With more than one-in-three school children owning a mobile phone, a future where camera and voice recorder phones are both learning and teaching tools is highly possible.

We have already seen some education authorities using texts to alert parents to the truancy and even to notify pupils of classroom changes.
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