Where next for high end mobiles?
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Se we've just had the reveal of the latest Samsung Galaxy phone which didn't bring anything major/amazing. Looks like an upgrade to the S7 Edge. For the record I'm a MS mobile user.
The only thing I saw on the video presentation that I think was a first to the market was facial recognition. IRIS recognition Microsoft Mobile have had for 18mnths as well as Continuum which is the same as Samsung DeX.
The latest Iphone didn't bring anything ground breaking apart from something fancy with the camera.
Microsoft haven't released a new phone for 18mnths and I believe have actually got rid of the mobile hardware side and put it under the Surface division.
MS seem to want to try and get full Windows on a mobile. You can already get stick PC's that fit in the palm of your hand. They have also recently been granted a patent on a designs for joining multiple displays, so are they looking at a folding phone?
So what do we expect to see as the next major step in high end mobiles?
The only thing I saw on the video presentation that I think was a first to the market was facial recognition. IRIS recognition Microsoft Mobile have had for 18mnths as well as Continuum which is the same as Samsung DeX.
The latest Iphone didn't bring anything ground breaking apart from something fancy with the camera.
Microsoft haven't released a new phone for 18mnths and I believe have actually got rid of the mobile hardware side and put it under the Surface division.
MS seem to want to try and get full Windows on a mobile. You can already get stick PC's that fit in the palm of your hand. They have also recently been granted a patent on a designs for joining multiple displays, so are they looking at a folding phone?
So what do we expect to see as the next major step in high end mobiles?
The only hope for MS I think is if they/or another hardware company announce something running win10 that is a game changer. Something that will make the app developers believe that it will get marker share, so making it worth their time and money doing a win10 app.
But the billion £ question is what could they reveal? A device running full win10, good for the business user, but for the every day user not much point. A folding phone or a phone where you could attach a second screen giving a bigger screen might do it, would be good if your using it to do a lot of internet, games, video.
Personally I would like to see someone forget about trying to make every phone update thinner and somebody actually make a phone a little thicker so that they could put a bigger battery in it.
But the billion £ question is what could they reveal? A device running full win10, good for the business user, but for the every day user not much point. A folding phone or a phone where you could attach a second screen giving a bigger screen might do it, would be good if your using it to do a lot of internet, games, video.
Personally I would like to see someone forget about trying to make every phone update thinner and somebody actually make a phone a little thicker so that they could put a bigger battery in it.
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