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Originally Posted by Sliver
Phones right now are huge and it's ridiculous. Photos and videos from people in 2014 are going to look hilarious in 10 - 20 years (or maybe even five) with us walking around with phones as big as a TI-85.
Expandable screens, maybe little projectors, folding phones, etc. will be along. I have no doubt a phone in your pocket will one day be as big as a tube of lipstick, but when you use it will be many times larger.
It's foolish to think cell phones have been virtually perfected on the hardware front considering they barely fit in pockets anymore.
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Well going smaller isn't what I would call advancement as we already came from there and lets not forget our fingers aren't shrinking and are eyes are still limited. That's something that's simply not going to change. Phones are private and projectors simply don't make sense unless it's via virtual glasses which IMO isn't close right now. Who in a busy place is going to want to broadcast a facetime chat with their friends or partners or worse yet at work be broadcasting chats with your wife or new girlfriend? I simply don't see how a phone the size of a tube of lipstick is going to be useful in any way as the projector angle simply doesn't work. IMO the only real area they can go is with folding screens to which the overall phone size is smaller but the screen folded out is more inline with a 5"+ screen. Until we get to the point that we can tap into our brains I simply don't see anything significant on the horizon as it's going to be medium to large size phones for the coming years. There will be improvements to keyboards and voice commands but right now what you see is what we are going to get outside of better screens and batteries.