QUOTE(WiLyi @ Nov 7 2013, 09:27 AM)
Honestly, maybe I'm a weird guy, but I don't really prefer a phone to be too slim. In those days, I really like the HTC Titan and Titan II with the slide out hardware full keyboard. I know devices nowadays are getting slimmer, but if it is slightly thicker than our Note 3 and you have the foldable screen, for me I won't complain about it.
But still, battery and stability should be the main focus. Hardware is getting better and better but many apps are not optimized or taking the advantage of the new processor architecture. Next year will be the year of 64bit processor but I wonder, how many years it would take for the app developers to switch to that platform
IMHO foldable screens will NOT make mass market. It will come out, but will hit a specific niche with a need for it, and that's it.
Why? By 2015 wearables will already be taking it's first tentative steps into mass market. By then people will have realised that they have no real need for a foldable physical screen when a Glasses based Optical AR Terminal can (by then or in a few short years from 2015) project as many virtual screens as you need in whatever sizes, anywhere.
Well, as an avid supporter of wearables, or at least AR Optical Terminals, this is what I hope will happen.
Right now what's important is cramming as much power we can into something that can be comfortably carried on our heads. Which, seeing the quadruplization of mobile processing power in the past few years, is proceeding quite nicely.
This post has been edited by Eiraku: Nov 7 2013, 09:41 AM