Wait, new name?

@@stillinfamousi guess the name “codyslab”was unavailable or something

I assumed you'd have an RTG powered phone.😅

RIP battery

I'm at 3%😂

Most people dont utilize the full functionality of a $1000 phone compared to a phone with a $400 msrp or less. People often complain about "needing" a new $1000 phone every two years.

@@fixerupperer the companies selling them love the idea that you “need” a new one. The fact that people might eventually realize they’re wasting money is the stuff of nightmares. Gotta keep consuming to buy some dude’s new yacht!

Where you getting every 3 years?😂😂😂 You mean when we individually decide to upgrade 3 years and 3 generations of smartphones later? Lol I’m pretty sure IPhone realease 2-3 a year… They release the main one, then a smaller or bigger version, and then another one with Some special letters at the end. Like the iPhone 5c They’re really good at it😂

@@fixerupperer - it's a fashion accessory. I've been a hardcore geek since the late 80s, I was bullied for my passion. The internet is ours, we built it and everybody else has turned it into a hellhole of bigotry and idiocy. I hope they go back to playing snake.

@@reklezzz9038 that’s just roughly the amount of time it takes for me to pay any attention to it haha

Not only that, but people actually pay money to be spied on and used as a product. It's madness.

even if these are trustworthy. All the benefits came with alle possible negatives and the one big dataleak wich will terrify most internet users. Mark my words it will happen! :D I also say that AI will bomb any trust in any news someday if too much too good fakes pop up. Yep i could also be wrong.

@@be.prepared.to.do.that. people at those levels seem awfully interested in controlling others. once one rich enough and everything normal becomes boring, the next way to get kicks is to wield power over others.

Interesting my comment was deleted. Only portrait the dark side left or right the positive. Happend often in recent future because of some buzzwords I use?? I always try to be friendly and make jokes. The world (I generalize) want the positives. But be sure the negatives are coming too. Be prepared... Yes maybe despite saying that I will too be surprised 😜 I don't want to write all again. Good work censure algorithm! Yep I know you only do what is programmed 👍

@@Nordlicht05 haha yep. all these sites are definitely using AI censorship already. Google has been using algorithms to hide search results for years. story doesn't fit the narrative? hidden. words criticize the wrong people or group? hidden. etc. etc.

where would i buy one nowadays? Ive been considering it.

I got mine at metro PCS... it wasnt on the floor though, I had to ask, and they def were trying to push the smart phone but they did have them . @@eszby

95% of the icons on my phone I have no use for. Research and messaging are all I need.

"I switched to a clam shell for emergencies"

I've done the same thing. I don't even text so I'm not constantly checking my phone for text messages. It's such freedom!

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LMAO!

If you had it included with "find my device" app in Windows 11 and not put it on silent mode, you'd have easily found.

LMAO

Chuckle 😂

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Agree. I went back to a flip phone and only use a smart phone to watch boring videos at night to fall asleep. Using a phone for 2 factor authentication is ridiculous since people bring their phones everywhere and get them lost/stolen. I was able to just side load the authenticator app on an Android emulator so I can do it right there on my laptop LOL.

lol after my tablet died I started to use my phone to watch videos at night, its a great way to get to sleep ! @@castirondude

Yeah I don't think I'll be getting a Vision Pro, and I have entertained the idea of going back to a dumbphone. I still like the idea of doing that. I've been using iPods for my music to have more control over what I consume, no subscription fees, no content disappearing from my library.

You've hit the nail on the head as far as my own opinion goes. The fact that we're more or less 'forced' to use a smartphone is why I hate them. I don't leave home a lot ...I'm a senior citizen ...I have an up to date desktop computer AND an up to date laptop I share with my husband, AND an iPad as well. I do NOT also need a smartphone ...except because I have to have one to receive verification codes, etc. So I've had to get one ...which I also share with my husband, which can cause problems if we both use the same phone number for the same company. We recently changed banks because the old bank suddenly insisted that online banking wasn't 'secure' any more, unless it was done via an app on a smartphone. !!! A smartphone that can be lost, stolen, dropped in the toilet, etc. I store NO sensitive content on any of my portable devices, including bank details. THAT is security. My desktop computer is tethered to my desk, at the address where I live. I'm not anti-internet at all. What I'm anti is the requirement that every single human being has to have their entire life tied to a smartphone now, or they are left out of the loop. This has happened so fast, and it's not good.

Same with personal computers - the evolution has slowed down. Only thing that forces a new hardware now on a computer is that some new software requires things like new encryption hardware, but that's hardly any major evolution. It's the hardware industry that drives that newer operating systems aren't supported on older hardware. But even though it's claimed by Microsoft that you need TPM2.0 and a certain generation of processor you can install Windows 11 on older hardware by doing a few circumventions, so go figure why there's a new hardware generation every year. The software industry also want new hardware where the old software don't work so people are forced to upgrade. (interdependency situation) Only the bleeding edge computing needs the latest hardware, but most of them uses specialized solutions under Linux. After all you as a consumer is the product and milk cow for the industry.

Smartphones evolved towards their current form factor pretty rapidly. They were initially constrained by technological limits and consumer adoption. And they won't be going anywhere until the need for that form factor is obsolete. Just like fridges, toasters, remote controls, and other appliances.

It's not silly to release a new model every year. What's silly is people's baseless belief that just because a company releases a new model implies they're expecting everyone to buy it. Those new models are simply available for purchase by anyone in the market for a phone. Just because a company releases new models every year doesn't mean they're demanding their customers buy them every year.

@@OC-CPA However the software upgrades for many smartphones ends after a short time, like a year or two and some apps related to security and banking require latest upgrades to work.

@@ehsnils Nonsense-it's not that short. I'm still using a 2018 Android, and iPhones last even longer.

Not to mention how privacy disastrous it'd be to have a transparent screen at all

It seems like these days they don't bother with any type of screen and they just have floating holograms

​@macberry4048, exactly what I was going to say. Who needs screens when you have hologram screens that work perfectly in any light or environment somehow 😂

Why would you even want a transparent screen other than AR? You'd be distracted by everything behind it, and your black levels would be zero.

@@juicewilliss Go ahead, open your bank account in a holographic display, or open up your passwords in a way that keeps exposed to everyone Or that chat with your S.O. having a few private photos You see the issue?

I still enjoy everyday interactions

Until you get to the back of the queue.

Idk what changed, I very much enjoy skipping the chat at the checkout.

how IRONIC

I'm an introvert, so I'm just happy to get through the drive through faster and get better deals too

Nice, I still have the Razor :)

Im not too old yet, but i also check my phone once a day and i have all notifications turn off. Feels so good without constant distraction.

I finally got one when 3g went away. I only use it for phone calls and texts (and sometimes pictures). Even this huge samsung is too small for me. No way I'm straining my eyes for this POS. If it can't wait until I get home and get on a proper computer, it's not that important. Of course I could always get reading glasses, but I'm not going to do that until absolutely necessary. I'm perfectly happy not wearing glasses atm.

I use my phone like a land line. I don't take it to the bathroom, shop, table, bedroom, or yard. I stick in my pocket when I drive somewhere. I don't use it to watch YT or E-mail. I have a powerful desktop and a wall-mounted 65" monitor with keyboard and mouse by my recliner. Smartphones are to small to use comfortably, smart glasses may be the ticket.

@@jimmym3352 You can go to your phone's settings and increase text size. It affects all text in all apps. Settings -> Display -> Font size and style. There's also a "Screen zoom" setting under the font size setting, which affects UI elements of apps.

Well, depending on how much you used the phone, that could be why your vision is deteriorating. It's a WEAPON. It has harmed many people & it is a spying device.

Amazing that you for sharing that - I think a lot of people lurk in the comments while the Upload plays often just consuming the audio as the video is way up there offscreen. At least that's what I often do, find myself down here in the FINE PRINT as I call it, searching for more meaning and context or opinions on whatever obscure content the normies have constructed to subside our boredom for another minute at least, hehe. I'm studying this fine print down here as WAAAAY up high at the top there (which i only know usually due to the audio, which i think was my point, hmm) the Upload plays out, often at above realtime playback speeds, such as it's Author Editor has not intended it be depicted while consumed. Just another creation by our YouGlube celebratty has (usually) tried to Frankenstien into someloosely conceptually 'forgiving' playlist on it's "Channel". :)

part of this videos point was that smartphones have become much much more than that

we said the same about the internet in the 90s look now it owns us

​@@kylelawson91 I still use money orders and cashier's checks I don't do online banking I don't even use direct deposit from my job

I was born in 2000. Reading this story feels strangely .. historical. Even though it's definitely not that long ago.

@@Bville-E everything u do is on the internet your bday your name your birth recoreds where u shop where u work your car loan everything i worked for the census guess what all the data is on the internet who u marry how many kids your ideas your bank your life is a data number now all u are is just a binary code everytime u log on so next u text ur girlfriend wife kids video chat for work or even just watch youtube and chill welcome to the manchine

I have no idea why anybody gets excited about these things (if anyone does).

@@partiellementecreme eh there's cool niche uses. the technological development itself is also cool if of itself. I'm excited about smart glasses for example... because I think it'd be awesome to be able to watch or read things in different situations or in more comfort, 0% because I want to replace my phone. generally with innovation people try to fulfil current uses because it's easier to market people on something they already do as opposed to marketing them on entirely new behaviors. Even if someone knows their product won't become a new phone, they're still going to market it that way because it gets more sales.

I hate speaking to my phone to do shit. If I need to look something up I'll pull up Brave browser and punch it in myself. I've actually used Siri less than a dozen times over 8 years of having a smartphone. I would completely lose my sanity if the Vision pro's became the "Everyone uses this thing 24/7 in public and in private strapped to their faces" future.

All of which have made drastic and incredible changes 👀

​@@someguy4131Um - really? What "drastic and incredible" change is on your microwave? (And no, a popcorn button is neither).

It's a click bait title. Did you really think the dude had some scoop?

Exactly. Despite all the bells and whistles on all of the producs you mentioned as well as the smartphone, every single one of them are still in use for the original function that they were created for.

I used to stare at my Palm Pilot Personal Digital Assistant before the Palm Treo, Blackberry and then iPhones were introduced.

Only advantage I can think of with a transparent screen is using it for AR purposes. Other than that it´s way worse than an ordinary screen. Maybe one that can switch the transparent feature on and off?

Foldables aren't THAT dumb, More biggerer=more betterer, for some. Tablet functionality, fits inside pocket...it solves a problem if you really, really want more screen room. My mom likes her Z Fold4, since it lets you fit a normal amount of content at once while using an easy to read larger text scaling, for her old people eyeballs.

Gimmick products are companies shooting their shot. If it works out they'll be THE company for it. I don't mind them but I'm not the type to fomo for stuff anymore.

@@MichaelBeale Yes if you want screen size greater than say 7 inches ... then yes but you would have to give up on thickness of the phone when folded ..

I have foldable and like the bigger screen when needed. It's not necessary though.

No of course not

Here in Norway there is a trend among young people to have two phones, a smart and a dumb. The dumb is for when socialising and after school activates.

i hate phones and i will gladly take some super sweet glasses over this rectangle

Yeah at least with a phone it's fairly obvious if someone is recording a video of you or something. That was partly responsible for Google Glass' failure.

not going away just stay in your pocket never to be seen again

Ditto, my favorite phone ever was the LG enV3. Everything you need and nothing you don't. The closest thing today is the HIT phone.

Good for you. People walk around with their nose in a device, totally oblivious to the mugger behind them or the car they are about to walk in front of. I was into computers back when they took up the room. I didn't really start hating it until smart phones. At least I live near Amish and Mennonites, they've managed to live without it and remind me I can too.

Some Gen Z teens in Brooklyn are calling themselves the Luddites, rejecting smartphones. Probably others around the world too. Seems smart to me.

@@hr3134Right on. I don't need some title or group to join for it. I'm happy enough just going about my life as I see fit.

It will be no later than the 3rd generation when the Vision Pro can conduct an EEG. Your brainwaves will be continuously monitored, and everyone using the devices will be the subject of psychological and neurological research conducted by Apple, or third parties in accordance with their privacy policy. Your consent will be given when you agree to the Terms of Service in order to first boot the device you have paid for, and implied by your continued use of the device.

Make the experience as addictive and placating as possible so you keep using it longer, then sell your biometric data to advertisers.

You also forgot about In-Your-Face advertising as you walk around that you literally can't avoid. I've read many sci-fi books with that present. One such series that is currently running is Stray Cat Strut by Ravensdagger, though to warn you, it can't make up its mind what genre it is.

Imagine a dystopia where they have secret databases of your mental health, and use it during hiring to select for passivity, exclude ADHD people from knowledge work, keep bipolar people from joining teams , or the opposite use AI to find people who do have mental illness and are desperate for jobs so you can low ball their salaries for jobs where their illness won't matter. Then deny it all because "the AI algorithm has 50,000 weights we have no idea how it works"

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I’m 71 and have never owned a smartphone, I really have no need for one.

I'm not yet 40. And I think I'm good too. But I've always been behind the times. I didn't have a mobile computer until 2007. I didn't have a smartphone until 2014. I didn't have a large flat screen WiFi TV until the beginning of the pandemic. And the laptop and the TV were gifts! If left up to my own devices it probably would have been longer.

I'm 45 and if I ever win the lottery I'll be smashing mine and getting a dumb phone.

@@georgejones3526 I am over 71 and have had several smartphones. I also recently dumped Windoze and both my laptops run on Ubuntu, my partner is fine with Windows 11 and I, occasionally, use that for windows only software such a configurations for my New Solar Power setup, this is the second one I have built. I am now in the process of configuring the internet comms for the setup.I like learning new stuff, it keeps you young in the brain.

I'm 22, a media student of all things meaning i work with the newest of technologies every day and absolutley nerd out over stuff like this but god forbid i will never upgrade from my 2012 iphone, i love that thing so much and already had to buy one used because the old ones battery exploaded the screen off of the old one

Great comment.

Funny, today I was driving and a car in front had what looked like a camera sticking up above it, like where the car radio aerial is. I was so paranoid, and definitely being ultra careful to be on my best behaviour, especially as I had a work uniform on. I'm thinking now of maybe getting a dash cam to face the rear to see if it'll reduce aggression from drivers behind me.

American Jewelry pawn shop in Detroit? lol

@@quantist4266 That's the one.

In the USA people go to bars go watch tv 😆😆😆

I'm with you on that! I'm not one to dictate or even use Siri, especially in public. I personally can't even get past the awkwardness of "talking to" my phone & hoping it understands me correctly or having to repeat myself. I do agree we will always have SOME need for a keyboard, it'll probably just evolve to fit new technology trends - much like the way our phone keyboards went from being static keyboards that took up physical space to becoming a tool that can pop in & out of our touch screens. However, I also think the degree to which we rely on a keyboard is largely generational. While we spent most of our lives depending on keyboards, today's children first learn to interact with technology via touch screens & voice/speech-activated technology well BEFORE they even learn to read & write. Not having to rely on writing/reading abilities means that they also start using technology independently much earlier than the rest of us. Voice-activated tools are increasingly becoming the new "norm." Though keyboards are likely to still be around in some way, they are increasingly taking on a secondary role with new generations. One thing is for sure, it'll be interesting to see where this goes.

@@aracelylopezpsyd5794 - you are right to be concerned, it's a spying device & the toxic cell weapon is also a spying device & toxic to our bodies. Pleas wake up to the Truth.

@@aracelylopezpsyd5794 It may be generational indeed. But I always plug a full size keyboard and a mouse into my laptop when I have to do any serious work-- typing long documents, spreadsheets, photo editing, etc. Fingers on a screen are just too big and clunky and you cannot get the fine tuning needed that a mouse can provide. And try typing a novel with your thumbs on a smart phone.

What about a phone that reads your lips? Come to think of it, they might already be doing so. I think you could program a phone to use eye tracking and know which letters and words you want without too much trouble.

I don't think the Vision Pro is aiming for long term use. It seems like it would be good enough to watch a movie on, or if comfortable enough to use as a portable workspace

Everyone can point out flaws. The real key that differentiate the winner and losers is: Winners say: "We need this problem to be solved to have a winning product. Plan/invest and manage risk accordingly." Losers go: "This idea will never work because of this flaw. Don't bother with it."

The obvious solution is to have AI assisted smartphones running AR & VR peripherals. People have been using blocks in our pockets wired to our face for decades. It has the added benefit of allowing more customization which drives competition development.

And the first mobile phones were heavy and lasted ten minutes on battery. Heck, the first phones were wood and steel boxes bolted to the wall and you had to tell a live operator which other giant wood box to physically connect you to. I hardly see why we wouldn't be able to make them more glasses- or goggle-like in several years. There are companies putting OLEDs on contact lenses now too.

There were glasses meant to hook up to the phone like a smartwatch but they faild for not being durable enough and having piss poor sound quality and hurt to listen to or so well done in ear blocking with good sound that they were dangerous to use in the fields of where the sports versions were meant like Cycling, Running/Walking, and other outdoor city events where needing hearing is very important, then worst of all they had only a super limited battery life almost as bad as the early true cellphones. Also, most claimed to be waterproof or water resistant to 100 meters and were not even close to this and died after the one rain incident. Problem was like the Original Razor, they were made to be too light to where most of the heavy duty unbreakable sports frames for specific adventure sports or cycling were in weight and not really carrying about durability.

Very good point, but they should've gotten a patent on it. #missedopportunity 😆

It's actually a bad communicator and the video quality is aweful. I totally understand why it's not possible to use your hand as an monitor, but so should they. As long as I can buy a tile that can do all of this and much more I never would even consider to buy such a thing.

I was hoping the leap forward would be a badge type device. That or a visor like Gordie’s

​@@Spielernameyeah, the problem with auto translate isn't that it's not your voice. It's that the translation is bad. We need better translators

If they make that product in the form of a com badge I might just buy one 🖖

Being watched constantly is not going away.

@@tallbudhayeah especially if we do nothing about it

It's not the company watching. It's the security S.

((laughing)) I have 3 now and just got 4 more. 😎I'M WATCHING YOU😎((LAUGHING))

And microphones. Do this experiment. Talk out loud about something you have no interest in, so there is no search history. The example given by a guy doing this several years ago was dog toys, because he is a cat person. He talked about dog toys for about 10 minutes and then started surfing. His browser started showing dog toy advertisements.

I've mastered 6 languages during my youth and uni time. The only language I've ever needed for (international) business has been English. I enjoy speaking them for culture's sake but they're not necessary to do business

@@daarom3472 Same experience here (except the 6 languages part lol). Also related to that, I live in a tourist town, and I find it incredibly endearing when foreign tourist try to speak the local language. I always switch to English for their convenience of course, but perhaps after a small delay : ) And no, I don't want AI becoming a middle man in my everyday human interactions.

@@zoranvujovic998 I think it would be nice to have the option if someone is an individual who is terrible at learning languages.

under display cameras too. being able to look in someones eyes while video chatting still eludes us in 2023. everyone is all just still looking to the side

I have a feeling this may take a bit longer to catch on in the business world than you think. Consider the ramifications of a potential mistranslation for critical (possibly life-or-death, even if indirectly [ordering hospital supplies, for example]) exchanges or high-value transactions. Consider the potential legal fallout due to those circumstances, or even the damage inflicted to a potential exchange by an offensive or misleading mistranslation. Consider that some people may speak in some manner that an auto-translator, however refined, may have difficulty with (volume, accent, vernacular) - or even the potential for a split-second connection error to completely skew the translation. Consider that self-driving cars still can't be trusted to distinguish between a person and a palm tree, and that Google translate still puts out goofy results today, a decade after release. I have a feeling that most companies will be hesitant to embrace auto-translators until the technology is quite mature, due to the potential (if not likely) speed-bumps and real problems that using it would actually create along the way.

Agreed… went from the 10 “X” to the 14 pro max and other then a bigger screen it’s basically the same phone.

I've had a galaxy 10 going on 5 years now. Works absolutely fine.

@@davidkymdell452 You're not missing anything. My previous phone was an S10e. I switched to a S22. It's basically the same phone.

I currently have an iPhone 13 handed down to me from my dad, and I have no intentions of getting a 15. If/when I need a new phone I'll be getting an older and smaller smartphone or just run a dumbphone. I'm starting to find large smartphones a hassle to use and kinda want something smaller.

I had a "smartphone" even before the iPhone hit the market. It was Windows Mobile, with REAL GPS and could do everything modern smartphones do. It was basically a PDA with cellular capability and a GPS built in. The interface just wasn't as slick as they are now but that really didn't matter.

Talking about smartphones but failing to mention Palm OS devices, programmable calculators, pocket computers and laptops is a major oversight. The two greatest features of smartphones are their portability and their ability to combine all our previous devices into one thing. In college I carried a walkman, a minidisk player/recorder, a Mavica digital camera, an Iomega Zip Drive and a Handspring Visor PDA (the Palm Pilot competitor) and nobody thought it was all that odd. I could see the Palm type devices becoming the thing of the future because they were working hard to get as much function into one thing. They had a cell phone add-on, thousands of apps, a camera add-on, memory expansions, and maybe even an MP3 player in the works. Apple had its failed Newton device and everyone wants to quietly act like it never happened. This video talks about interacting with the devices differently but that's not what is needed for change. I think the next big thing that'll come to smartphones is finding what it is that they currently can't do and that's where the change will come from.

IPhones fanboys tend to make that oversight from time to time (usually... Always)

HTC had cool windows phones way b4 iPhone too, had a stylus and everything they were pretty kewl

Ditto. The biggest surprise was the uptake with old people. All these people who couldn't even program a VCR , these moms and dads who never even knew or understood what it is their kids did for a living , somehow suddenly all have smart phones, wut?

We can always take the glasses off when we want them to be genuine with us

Agree wholeheartedly Spectre, and it’s one of the main reasons I spend almost all of my non professional life alone. Knowing that you are under surveillance means that whoever you would be absent the watching/recording takes a back seat to whatever your brain decides is socially viable. It’s exhausting

what kind of stuff are yall getting up to when you're not being watched?

Just because people want privacy doesn't mean they're doing anything bad.

@@skyemecham9392 these dudes are talking about being forced to act inauthentically, that kind of implies the way they normally act is socially unacceptable

Ah, you’re a Luddite I see. 🤪

I don't see that catching on. At all.

its still very buggy

it also needs a lot of updates... CLIENT SIDE updates.

Crazy idea in the first place! 😮

Source?

I remember hearing about that on In Search Of yearssss ago.

Source?

Mark of the Beast?

Man outside of time.@@kevinmunger1842

iPhones 13 and up come with a 2000 nits screen. It’s bright enough to see everything in sunlight, though admittedly it would be ideal if the screen could shine through my polarized sunglasses. I believe the brightest that phone screens will ever get is 2800 nits; I cannot imagine a situation where more nits would even be desired, not to mention necessary.

@@andreirachko the problem with just blasting the nits is that it heats up the screen...while it's in the sun... after a few minutes the screen has to turn itself down because it's too hot.

Threedimensional image would be a real improvement

@@CRneu fair point, I noticed that too. I guess there is indeed more room for improvement than I thought.

Digital ink screens.

Good point! I often use my device as a background tool to keep me indirectly entertained while I work on a main project. While it may be possible to switch to just audio, many of us like to multi-task. We may want to be able to glance at an image on the screen without keeping it in our direct line of sight as that would be too distracting from our main task.

And what’s wild to me is the idea that all we need to do is create a space for interaction within the tech. We’re socializing with extra steps. During lockdown, and even since because my parents live 500 miles away, playing a round of mini-golf on the headset is pretty cool interaction. But my parents have designated areas of the house for them to play a board game together without bumping into each other.

Thanks captain NotAPsychologist

@@ericabaliotis6973 That last bit is horrifying. Your parents can't just... play a real board game? That's so tragic/sad I can't even.

How could you define VR without "oblivious to your surroundings" being a neccesary part of it? Otherwise, it's augmented reality (AR). As for getting the user's attention. You just need a little button, not on the worn equipment, that someone can push, or a phone app, etcetera that sends a little bird flying down to gently whisper in their virtual ear that they are needed back on Earth 1. You could have automatic bird notifications for weather alerts, or whatever.

no the root cause is capitalism. the only issue with vr/the internet is that its used as a *replacement* for in person socialization, instead of a *supplement* . which for a social species like humans, is BAD. no amount of online socialization can replace our biological need for in person socialization. this isolation is just another symptom of capitalism. also the way cities used to be built made spontaneous interactions very common, thanks to high mixed density, pedestrian friendly city centers, and good public transportation. but capitalism came in after ww1 and destroys the density for freeways and suburbs, and took out the public transportation and pedestrian friendly roads to turn into streets and parking for cars. this was so bad in north america you can look up before and after photos of tons of small and large cities being destroyed for the car. the effects of capitalism are so broad its hard to think of something that it doesnt affect negatively

I'd agree, I stick headphones in sometimes at stores when I don't want to have a conversation. I carry them at all times even if I'm not planning on using them for anything.

Sadly, over usage of noise cancelling earbuds or headphones will cause long term ear and brain issues. Such as over stimulation in quiet areas for some time afterwards nausea in extreme cases and enhanced tinnitus. Among other things, do your own research, I am not your mother....lol But good luck to you none the less if you continue to over use those!!!! :)

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@Defensive_WoundsI’ve used noise canceling ear buds and headphones for years and have never gone through any of that. Those side effects are extremely uncommon. Do your own research, I’m not your dad.

@@Defensive_Wounds I have no idea where you pulled out that bullshit, but I would love a research paper if you indeed have a link. Noise-cancelling is literally just a device recording noise and then generating opposite sound waves to that noise, so it cancels it out. It literally has no direct effect on the brain unless I guess you're in a pure noise vacuum aka you're not listening to anything which you would just take them off at that point because staying in complete silence is uncomfortable for us humans, also it would really just affect the ears I guess by maybe making them more sensitive, but again I feel like that would only work if you're in complete silence and that's unhealthy... you can just turn off noise-canceling if you're not listening to music while having them on...

@@Defensive_Wounds In a crowded, noisy household, whatever longterm effects there might be are supplanted by the short term effects of me not strangling the people I live with. And that's not a joke or hyperbole. Before I got mine, I was starting to experience some serious rage issues. Out in public, I don't turn the headphones on. That kind of lack of awareness in public is dangerous. They're just there to signal to people that I'm not available for random conversation.

I tend to avoid people who use iphones

Agree.😂

Apple didn't invest the hardware or many of the other parts of the smartphone like the touchscreen, etc. Those are some of the myths Joe forget to actually check.

Absolutely

Ughhh!!! Also, I've been using computers for 40 years and I'm an audio engineer. I'm used to 3 screens, tons of information in my face and a good interface. Android is great and customisable. Apple is awful. It's AWFUL. People just get "used to it" but it's not intuitive. It's weird people switching to android try to do the weirdest swipes and gestures when the button is a simple click on the screen. I'll never like Apple. I'm forced to use Logic on OSX sometimes and it's not quick or efficient. It's bloated, unintuitive and it doesn't work how you expect, you just get "used to it".

To be honest ads are already everywhere in cities and as long as we don't go full chip in the brain you can always just take the glasses off

And you _know_ it is going to happen because advertising.... Fortunately a highly productive fix for the problem can be found using an age-old remedy.. a 22 oz. framing hmmer.

Look at how few likes you got although it is 2 months later, but still. People are already transhuman. They don't have empathy, they don't want to connect with humans or Mother Earth. Everyone who uses this toxic weapon constantly isn't just harming themselves & children, but everyone around them & all living things. I have proof for everything. Please don't believe the lies, please wake up. I beg you to start learning.

Like black mirror

I've been debating going back to a dumbphone. I've been watching this trend of young people going back to dumbphones and I really like the idea of not being spied on by every company ever and not being tempted to whip out your phone every 12 seconds

Microsoft at least tried to come up with new and original UI, and the whole tiles idea wasn't terrible. Anyway, as they say: the rest is ....

@@radanv2535 I hated the tiles. They were the main reason I never even bothered to check out Microsoft phones.

Actually, many of us have better things to do than spend time on our phones and consider them an interruption to higher priority things we are doing. Useful when we need them and that's it.

@@stevegrieb6596exactly. There’s people that rely on their phones for everything in their life is why they will be the enslaved forever

@@stevegrieb6596 Likewise. But we can put down any brand of phone and tell it to not bother us. I would bet that you don't go out and buy the latest and greatest phone every year. We were not Microsoft's target market.

There is nothing inherently Orwellian about technology. It is how that technology is leveraged to generate profit. Even if we were still using landlines, pay phones, and pagers/beepers they'd be using those to leverage a way to mine your data. Y'all gotta stop thinking it's the device's fault or that the device is somehow at fault. It's the companies that are doing it. They're taking your data - data they've had all along, they've always recorded who you called, they just never leveraged it for additional profit. Companies were already tracking your spending habits back in those days, too. You think that info was somehow sacred back then? Hell no, banks would sell that all the time - I worked for banks back before cellphones and we were doing that. Focus on what the real issue is - companies are leveraging your habits and behavior to make greater profits. If you use anything trackable, anything with a unique number, they will track you. Period. No matter what you take away from them, they will find new ways to track you. If everyone went cash and no cell phones, they'd track you by your license plate using cameras and your driver's license. The genie never goes back in the bottle.

​@@chascapwell2041Technology makes surveillance easier and more efficient. Technology may be a tool that can be used for good or ill, but anyone with even the most pedestrian pattern recognition ability can tell you that mega corps and big daddy gov will reliably leverage technology against the common person. If the genie can't be put back in the bottle, then it's time for a showdown between the common man and the genie, because somebody's gotta go.

Too much stimuli. Everything becomes boring as a result. Tech doesn't need to be exciting. It just needs to be useful. What a revolutionary concept.

@@chascapwell2041 It's been a while since usefulness isn't the main focus any more… Now it's all about having the "best" without thinking much about if it's really what one needs.

Yeah the good ole days. Phone bills for local and long distance in the hundreds per month. Then the cell one bill for the Nokia roaming charges. Still, letting go of the home phone land line, that permanent phone number, was a step off a cliff into uncertainty.

Sometimes laws catch up with technology but ethics? Don't think so.

Ethics is a big problem here in the US. Just look at our Supreme Court, they have no ethics, and it's all of us that get hurt.

A lot has happened technologically in the past 20 years, and we’re just now grappling with the issues of privacy, addiction, personal freedom, community, and disinformation. The world has many “experiments” running right now in societies across the globe. We can see how social media affects our children across cultures, how authoritarian regimes use technology, and how linking previously isolated parts of the world is changing entire regions. I personally think we should be trying to ensure that our advancements don’t erode equity, human rights, and societal function instead of focusing on how we are going to accelerate our already break-neck pace.

​@@PeterD2Soh, ethics have been the same since forever then? Did Ancient Egypt have the same ethic standards as us?

Like confronting a whole society and pointing out that Flappy Bird and cat videos now could mean your great grandchildren starve to death in the ruins of a flooded coastal city?

Used mine until forced into "smart" phones. Tiny little thing I could fit into any pocket. Now we are stuck with smart phones making people dumber.

I had one of those but the shape made it difficult to hold, just didn't fit my hand. Anyway, it was short lived as it got dropped in the toilet, lol.

Still have mine. Wish the video recording was better, the bitrate makes it kind of useless. I guess it was meant for email but they should have included a high quality mode. It's now sitting in a box with several movies on it I encoded in 256k 144p. 🤓🤨

Subjective. Billions of humans all had their own favorite smart phone.

I had one back in the day, I was the coolest kid in town - until the ‘6’ stopped working, limiting the number of people I could call. Sent it back, got a new one, and that would switch off when someone called. So in summary: cool phone, not the most practical.

Funny I was thinking of the Star Trek Next Gen Era Combadges.

@@rvaughan74 Funnily enough, I had a coworker want an honest review from me about it *because* it resembled that. I told him that, unless he's able to take full advantage of the front screen, it's more of a gimmick, but it's a solid phone nonetheless, fwiw

In your dreams pal... 😒

What, like it used to be about 20-25 years ago. No one struggled to keep in touch with each other in those days. When I was a teenager back in the 80's I would have to leave the house and walk to a public phone box if I wanted to have a private call with my girlfriend.

I remember talking to my LAN line supplier several years ago and was asking about metered long distance calling since most of my friends were local. She said that it was a bit expensive: $5 per 100 minutes. I explained to her that in the 1960s, long-distance calls were like $1 or $2 a MINUTE! Everyone had ways of cutting the costs down.

Seriously? If you don't need the "Smart" features of a phone you can already keep your phone for ten years. And, right now, without new technology, you can ALREADY leave your phone at home. Just in case you weren't aware, your phone has an "off" button!

@@qt3dot14ish A few years ago, I was "actually" talking to one of the girls in our office and she was complaining that her iPhone wasn't working quite right. I said to turn it off and on again. She responded with "what if I miss a call while it's off". She told me she had never turned her phone off.

YES!

Stop answering the phone, text and the like when you are off.

With you there. I’m up against a wall where modern tech just overwhelms me. If I go for a walk on the beach, I don’t want to be reachable or even in touch. Privacy isn’t only about your info, it’s also about being alone when you want to be. Same way I want to play an instrument, even struggle to learn how, and not just get a computer to do a better but artificial job without me learning my craft. Knowing without learning is soulless

Same, I keep my phone on silent. Always. I just never set up voice-mail so leaving a message isint even an option.

I have setup "do not disturbe" on my phone, at certain times and on certain days only a very few people are excluded, anybody else can't get hold of me. Also, I have a work phone what is switched off on my holidays and weekends; I don't get paid extra.

Every time we get smaller devices, the ways to control the device become less and less hands on, precise and configurable. With a desktop PC you can choose your keyboard and mouse and you can plug in whatever extra controllers you want to use. With a laptop you don't get to choose a keyboard, the keyboard might miss buttons such as the numpad and instead of a mouse you get a trackpad, which is less precise. You can still get a mouse of course, but it's awkward to use unless you're using your laptop on a table. With a smartphone the only controller is the touch screen, which is very inprecise. You can pair a wireless mouse and keyboard to a phone but you surely don't keep them with you all the time. I don't think the smartphone will disappear any time soon, but what might happen is we get extra accessories to go with them. Glasses/goggles for example for when you want to watch some videos or play some VR or AR game. Or that AI pin thing from Humane. Instead of being a standalone device, it could be just an accessory which enables you to do some tasks without whipping out your phone. It's actually pretty crazy to think that we are all carrying these very powerful devices with all sorts of connectivity options onboard in our pockets, and the only (popular) external accessories we currently have are headphones/earphones and smart watches/bands. The first thing that pops into my mind is an external camera. It could have better (exchangeable) optics and a bigger image sensor than smartphone cameras have, but without any sort of processing or stuff like that.The resulting product would be a lot cheaper than an actual DSLR camera, but could probably take better pictures thanks to the amount of processing power available on a smartphone.

folx?

​@@hydra5758thank God I'm not the only one...

Very interesting . Is that the cool way to spell folks , now ? Thanx !🍻

Cars, books, tvs, refrigerators. Oh no the end of the car is near the 2010 cars are essentially identical with the 2024 cars

The technology has advanced too quickly for social etiquette to keep up.

@@gilessteve Excellent observation!

Most accurate statement, regarding smart phones and social media, I have ever read.

I think it also helps you to determine who to keep in your friend circle. I have made a point of building a real, live network of friends and associates who, like me, don't engage with social media. We have actual interests that exist in the real world and don't overlap being online. It's refreshing to hold conversations with people who do interesting things and have interests that exist in reality as opposed to online.

I have an acquaintance who works in IT. he does ALL of his work on his PC, preferably on Linux, doesn't own a laptop as far as I am aware and while he owns a smartphone, he has barely any aps on it. Smartphones have always been time wasting devices first and foremost, status symbols second, and utilities a distant third. Laptops are not for doing work, but for making work portable. Smartphones are a hype. That hype is coming to an end. The big companies are trying to start a new hype, that being VR. That is the core of the issue.

I don't think transparency is as important as flexibility. Imagine a phone the size of a Sharpie that had its screen rolled up around itself. You unscroll the screen to x size to use per normal, then roll it back up for storage.

planned obsolescence is exactly that, planned. It's not that we can't do stuff that last 10-20 years. We have the tech for it. The industry just don't make it because they don't need to or want to. Actually, in the SW world there's the concept of SaaS. You can't buy it anymore, but for only 9.99/month you can subscribe to it. And phones last exactly 2 years. You can make implants that last 20 years easy.

You're right. Transparent screens are like the Dick Tracy phone watch, or flying cars -- tech that sounds cool, but which we realize is a spectacularly bad idea once it becomes feasible. We've had the technology to make see through books and notepads for decades after all, and no one has even suggested that it was an idea that should be tried.

@@bdgackle I find it odd that you dis the Dick Tracy watch while ignoring the Apple Watch. The core issue with flying cars is the pilot's licensing which just keeps getting more expensive and out of reach. Classic sci-fi novels discussing flying cars had pilot's license and aerodynamics being taught in high school while ground transportation was relegated to middle school aged kids. As the current Green Agenda highlights, the Elite want to keep the sky free for themselves, not for anyone else. Carbon emissions doesn't matter for Taylor Swift or John Kerry, just backyard lawnmowers and cow farts.

Even if the implants were perfect, from my understanding, the body eventually rejects them. Even medical implants that bind with bone etc. The body is more like "fine F you, if we can't get rid of you, I'll just invelope you" It's still not very happy to have anything not of your DNA to be in it.

Goes back way further than that too. Look up the size of the clay record keeping tablets used in Uruk and Ur in ancient Mesopotamia. They're basically the same size albeit thicker.

yeah but the signal was way better @@SpaceRodan

I agree with ya except on one thing. Gaming on a phone is garbage! No thanks. Give me a TV or a gaming PC with a mouse and keyboard or other specialized controllers like a joystick for a flight sim. Foldable phones for the win is the next logical form factor. Wouldn't it be awesome if your phone was a scroll that you could unroll to whatever size you needed at the time? Or just about phone sized now, and thicker, but could fold out like old school maps? Again if you wanted the size of a phone it works. If you want double you unfold it once and it becomes half the size of a tablet. Then unfold a third time and it becomes larger then a tabet? This is the only logical form factor till we get a small little lens that showcases the world or whatever we are watching. Basically a HUD or augmented reality. Then combine it with something like a way to type on our forearms. Navigate or click with our eyes.

I think you just explained the cause of our phone addiction. We need to use our hands! That's how we learn and create. We should go back to making things with our hands: craft, woodwork, bread, etc to counter balance our phone addiction. It's in our hands!

@dianapennepacker6854 You basically just described a Scroll from the web animation RWBY. Basically a hard light screen display between two switch-like controllers that functions almost exactly like a smartphone. It starts off about the size of a flip phone and you pull on the two sides to expand it out to the size of a small tablet. Folding phones are a bit niche, but having a tensioned flexible plastic screen that you can extend and contract like a tape measurer from a tube like handle could create a larger screen while also shrinking the device size to something the size of roll of half-dollar coins, and just have the display sized to fit what screen is exposed, so you could open it up a little bit to check a phone call, or open it up half way to have a regular smartphone display, or open it up fully to have a wide screen display that could function as an entire multi-screen work station. Obviously that might necessitate the tube being a touch longer than a smartphone and having controller periphials to make best use of it but it's certainly a method of giving you more screen space on a smaller package

We have arrived in the "final form" for a lot of things besides phones. And some of those, for decades. But I guess when it comes to "advanced tech", people have a hard time accepting there's actually an end.

This is such a good point! So often, when people comment on something being "nice," it has to do with the tactile experience of it, regardless of whether it's clothes, flatware, cars, smartphones, keyboards, or anything else. Like, sure, the visual aesthetics can play an important role, but we tend to like things that are pleasing to touch and manipulate in our hands.

I know my opinion is quite unpopular regarding this, but I hate most of the touch aspect of smartphones/tablets. I never felt like I really liked it. Perhaps at first I did like it, because it was innovative and cool. Afterwards I saw myself back on a computer with a separate screen and keyboard/mouse. I don't really see how you can beat that. I always disliked the lack of precision + using my screen as a keyboard. It's a bit like the Wii controller. At first it's cool because it's innovative and cool. Afterwards I switched back to a xbox/ps controller, which got the things done without the hassle of having to move. I never understood how people could prefer smartphones/tablets over computers. Smatphones and tablets feel like extremely dumb and nerfed computers. The fact that I can only have one window open at the time has always given me a sense of claustrophobia. In the end I think it's about getting the things you want done fast, efficiently and with comfort, which is why I never saw the touch aspect as anything but an innovative and fun aspect with very little application.

@@destroyerofworlds2239 I agree with you. I feel computers are much more comfortable. Still, the point remains. We have reached the final form of phones. I'm pretty sure even in 50 years from now, things will have changed very little.

we also like to touch ourselfs😏

And maybe cops will be on better behavior if they know you have a body cam, too!! 😆

In HS in like... 2004, a friend had a translator very similar, but it was a single device and language. So this part has actually been around for a while.

Yeah, bicycles and pedestrians too, since in most cases if something happens, a car driver isn't hurt and they can tell their story, while you're unconscious and unlikely to remember what happened when you do regain consciousness. Definitely a good use case.

Having ridden a motorcycle for the last 30 years, yeah... I remember that conversation back about a year before the first go-pro's came out. It was short and relatively quick. I get an abbreviated/abridged variant anymore with any new bike or mod's at the shop... The first one was "How do we get this camera on the bike without it catching wind and getting whipped off?" followed directly with "How do I make sure it's on?" and "Is it going to retain video in a crash? Those get pretty bad when you're cut off with nowhere to go." Now, it's more like, "Yeah, the custom cowling on front and include the shock-absorbing and damper for the camera-mount right there, Bill. OF COURSE, I want the aftermarket usb-multi-charge port! I'm not wrenching on Suzie to swap it over and back! Do I still look that stupid???" Fortnine's latest video featured one of his sponsor's products, a camera so small you can magnetically clip it to just about anything and get the "action shot" of it floating through a full-face helmet. It can attach to the power source in a POCKET for a body-camera that catches nothing on your chest for ride-along vid's... On it's own, the camera's barely as big as a thumb... AND that particular video was actually ABOUT Japan's latest secretive developments in HUD tech', from a sh*tty helmet device with a jittery display that made Ryan nauseous with the blinker light vibrating in view... to the next-gen competition with "Goggles" to reduce jitter and enhance visual quality... My big worry (besides price) is WHO gets to pick what I NEED to see in an HUD??? I sure as hell hope I get some contextual menu and settings control, or I'll just stick to a dedicated lid like always. The full-face development was a sh*t-show for us in the mountains until they got ventilation sorted out. NOTHING in the world compares to the shear panic of hitting a cold-spot in the mountains with a brand new helmet only to be BLINDLY TESTING SAID HELMET at speed... BAM! It's similar to cruising along at 80 mph into a white blanket across your face out of nowhere. ;o)

While translating tools make our lives easier, i lament that fewer people will see the value of learning other languages. Learning and speaking other languages has not only practical value but it is true enrichment for your brain. Through it you understand the other culture better, but also you'll understand your own language better, and it is great brain training.

But they really weren't. The goal became apparent when it was realised. A fully useful computer in your pocket.

I had to look up timeline for a second there because I swear people act like/forget to mention that Apple didn't come out with the first smartphone. Yupp, yupp, I know it was a huge milestone, that's not my point though.

@@myne00 They were. For their time they were. You don't get to compare them like that and deminish their contribution.

@@weird-guy Even talking about AR is Apple-centric, since Microsoft have had the HoloLens out for years. They're just extremely expensive and niche products right now, much like VR headsets in generally still are. That'll change, and I don't doubt Apple will be there, making their chunk of profit from it.

the next evolution to replace the smartphones will be neuralink. human trials are starting. Why worry about a cellphone in your pocket or in your hands that you can lose or damage, when it can be hardwired into your brain? xD Aside from all the possible nefarious and dystopian scenarios that extra processing bio-soldered directly to your brain can bring, the possibilities are pretty cool if the establishment doesnt ultimately intend to hive-mind control us xD

It doesn't matter what you feel. You can't do anything with those "smart glasses". Any attempts to get something like that ended up with them bein banned or not allowed in many spaces.

Yes, I have major hand issues, and Siri is embarrassingly useless as an actual assitant

Smart eye contacts are better

Smart glasses are huge. They will change alot of stuff and generally auhmented reality devices

X-Ray vision would be fun 😆

Omg - zoom, replay! How’bout identify that bird, or Im lost, where am I? Or -put me in Italy, or Put me on the moon. It could find my keys, know the nutritional value of my dinner plate.

Perhaps not X-ray, since some people might get offended when radiated... but IR and UV vision would have their uses. Not to mention macro- and zoom-vision far beyond cababilities ot the human eye. That "dash cam" feature would help to solve muggings, accidents etc. LiDAR similar to iPhone 12...15 Pro/Pro Max, just with much more advanced SW, would be nice. And they'd offer superior vision correction to traditional glasses, too. Including just the right mount of automatic darkening. Using the optimal or preferred color. Mirror-finish or not, you choose. While having about the same weight as traditional sun glasses... Something similar to HUD (Head-up display) in todays cars would be an obvious feature. Just more sophisticated and versatile, in 3D colour etc. Sometimes Pizzeria's menu, sometimes a map. Or just simple arrow guiding you to the right floor and room, making sure you wont be late from the meeting. High quality Movie Theater screen (HDR, of course) would be cool, as long as it would be automatically disabled for anyone driving any kind of vehicle. Privacy is an obvious problem. And distractions --> accidents etc. Propably never before seen amount of obnoxious, forced advertisement, too. More malicious and twisted than ever before, targeted specifically to make a single human being generate absolutely maximum cashflow. Without a single pause, 24/7/365, for the rest of the marks life. For example, vast AI Farms owned by Coca-Cola, Nike, Huawei, Pfizer, CCP etc. would easily learn to bypass any open Source Add-Block SW + punish you for trying it. And nobody can prevent them. Well, at least not level 4 basic citizens.

When I started wearing glasses, back in the 90’s I didn’t realise how glasses worked (I was a late teen when i started) I had a manual focus camera and would take photos onto film, with and without my glasses and a week or so later when i got the pictures back almost every picture was out of focus, because my glasses were fighting with the cameras focusing. I still don’t need glasses within about a foot

that'd really only work for extreme near-sightedness

You sound like one of the people who said that the iPhone will fail because it doesn't have a Keyboard lmao.

@@MobikSaysStuff OK, and what can we replace phones with that has equal (or greater) functionality and isn't intrusive?

@@captainthunderbolt7541 AR/VR glasses seems to be the next logical step. If you think that they have cameras because of which people won't like them, then you're wrong. People get over stuff pretty fast. 15 years ago giving up as much privacy as people have right now would be unheard of. I assure you.. people won't care about glasses with cameras in the future. Rn they are kinda bulky but standalone glasses with even meta quest 2 or 3's capabilities being the size of Xreal glasses would be 100% be the next step.

@@MobikSaysStuff It's not going to take off, mostly due to social reasons. Walking around wearing that stuff makes you look like an oddball, and it paints a bit of a target on you, since people don't like to be filmed in public. Some people will for sure adopt that tech, but not on a scale that will threaten the smartphone.

@@captainthunderbolt7541 I already mentioned why it won't make you an oddball, especially when they are the size of normal Ray-Bans. Are people with glasses oddballs to you? And no. I assure you, people won't care about cameras the same way they don't care about people filming on streets anymore or giving their data to tiktok or Facebook. People generally don't care after a certain amount of time has passed. They get used to it. I don't mean to disrespect you but "It won't take off" are the same type if arguments old-timers make whenever new tech advances are made and entered into the consumer market. Not that I'm calling you a boomer. PS. Quest 2 Sold over 20 million Units. For context that's more than Both Xbox series X and S combined. For tech you claim won't take off, it's going pretty great even though it is in its early adoption phase.

Lol yeah if people really cared about being recordered there wouldn't be so many videos of people acting outrageously. Also omg police body cam footage, it seems almost fake how stupid/entitled some of the people are.😅

Actually modern human speak more freely compare to the era before smartphone. So i’m not sure what is that "self censorship" in western countries, because i see more and more horrible speech freely lurking in twitter without any consequences. For Asia countries, we’re self censorship for the entire life and you don’t see us complain.

The full scope also includes people who, having no expectation of privacy also stop respecting it for others.

@@rewer Sorry, but that shows how "whipped" you are, that you've surrendered free speech to the government! You should be ashamed of yourself (especially the Chinese, who should have gotten rid of Bling-Bling and his ilk by now, but cowardly allow that dictator and his inflated party of yes-men to dominate them without once saying "No! Not acceptable!")

The very concept of privacy is likely to change. If you recall even passports were once considered to violate anonymity. Today we have people willingly sharing their lives on social media.

what era are you thinking of..? In UK, we only started using touch-tone in the late 80s or early 90s. We started to get GSM / SMS portable chocolate bar sized phones in the mid to late 90s, along with tapeless ansa-fones. (UK never took up pagers like the USA or Eastern markets) Then MMS/email/dial-up on the go from around 2004-05, then the feature phones and smartphones started to be introduced. The rectangular touch-screen pocket computers haven't really changed, as Joe said, since after 2009/10. it's been a fascinating journey.

I mean, if you trade off all of the advantages of a smart phone. You could just use a brick phone. 10 years at the very least.

Yes, you were tethered by wires ...

I grew up with a wall mounted olive green ITT rotary phone in the kitchen. We put a long cord on it so we could use it anywhere in the kitchen or in most of the adjacent living room. We eventually "upgraded" to a GTE cordless with a retractable antenna, but continued to use the old ITT phone because the sound was so much clearer. Plus, you could use the ITT phone during a power outage. ...I'm probably getting old, too.

I saw that in a museum - it wasn’t a phone, it was a speaker + mic, and the only game it played was an ancient version of Snake where a twisty cable had to be uncoiled every 5 calls or so. Must have had a bad battery, it was permanently plugged into the wall

There are rugged cases that return that feeling back to using the older device! lol

@@rootbrian4815 Good point. Maybe I should switch my case to something chunkier!

@@macronencer Seidio or otterbox or the equivalent generic rugged ones would do fine.

same, the "all the front of the device is interactable" (some did the sides as well!) concept is very dumb outside of a slide deck. Every time I grab someone's phone, there's a back-and-forth where I touch something and give it back so they can open what they were showing me again. It's not a user-centered design, it's a marketing-centered design.

I've always used Samsungs but man when they went to curved glass that made things even worse. I hated it. The phone I'm holding still has curved glass but I think the next Flagship is completely flat. That curved glass means you can't really even hold it by the sides without touching the screen.

I forget where I saw it, but there's a device that can understand words that you say under your breath, based on vibrations in your skull rather than sound moving through the air. That could be ideal for this kind of tech.

This is how I feel. The perception of privacy (not actual privacy, people happily give away all their private information every time they even look at a smartphone) is absolutely vital to the success of a smartphone replacement. That's why headsets are a more obvious choice over voice-activated assistants. The main problem with headsets is how to control them. - Controllers are TERRIBLE (outside of private recreation). They're an additional cost and on top of that they're an additional thing to carry around. This can be mitigated by wearable controllers, but that would almost certainly bring us to my next point... - Gestures are BAD (sorry Apple) -> way too visible and unworkable in a public space. Imagine trying to use gesture controls at a coffee shop. On the sidewalk. On a crowded metro train. Not. Gonna. Happen. Gestures are a pretty good way to control a (private recreation) VR headset device, but they are not gonna work at all for a smartphone replacement. + *Eye tracking* is how this problem can be resolved. It's more private than using your fingers (as our eyes can be completely covered with this tech) and it requires less effort (you move your eyes all the time). "Clicking" can be done either by focusing for a certain amount of time or blinking twice while focusing/blinking for a little longer than normal/something like that. Moving your eyes around a screen to select things is actually way more intuitive than any other method of doing so -- it's literally what you do all the time, then you have to annoyingly use some kind of other thing to do the actual selecting (an arm, a remote, a controller, a button, etc). Way better and way easier than anything else. Add on ear pieces and you have a device that is -completely- private. Way, way more private than a smartphone and it requires less effort to use (in fact you can literally always have it on). These devices have cameras on the outside and show you your surroundings, so it is entirely possible to go about your day as normal with one on. Not only is it possible in fact, this is the ideal use-case for such a device. The last problem is comfort. For all that smartphones have grown in screen size recently, they've actually gotten quite a bit lighter over the years. This was the key for wireless phones as well -- lighter meant more comfortable to use. Palm sized (which was achieved from the get-go with smartphones) also meant more comfortable to use. A successful headset needs to be as light as possible and no larger than a pair of goggles. There are devices that come remarkably close to this, so it's not off the table at all. Frankly smartphones nowadays are really similar in computation power, camera size & quality requirements, and screen resolution requirements to what such a device would realistically need and they aren't far off everything else right now (that's why google cardboard is able to exist after all). A problem that isn't really a problem is aesthetic. Once the above issues are resolved this one can be iterated until we find a design that people will settle on. The first smartphones were pretty ugly and all looked pretty different. Smartphones today are sleek and well-designed from form factor to UI, and they all look about the same. That's probably what you'd expect from this kind of system. The secret real last problem is marketing. The first smartphone had killer marketing thanks to Apple and that made a big difference. The first device that goes all-in on eye tracking controls that isn't prohibitively expensive and isn't too heavy will be the one that has the best opportunity to take off, so long as it is marketed well.

I do think that's one way that Apple was pretty forward thinking with their Vision Pro; much of the interaction isn't with voice commands (or even visible gestures), but with eye tracking and optical gestures, if you will. I think a well executed variant of that in AR glasses would be quite appealing to a lot of people.

@@winterfollowsspring8637 Own a smartphone* but really any electronic from the past 10 years. Welcome to the dystopian world of ultrasonic cross device tracking.

@@senorali Yeah that device is called AlterEgo.

The _Guide_ isn't anything like a smart phone. It's Wikipedia in a tablet. It doesn't run apps, it doesn't provide communications... it doesn't even have a calculator function. It's a searchable database of crowdsourced information of dubious accuracy.

@@DamnedSilly quite right

I like the tech in Dune. Not the new one. It’s like microfish that animates and has all this data stored in thin sheets of plastic. It’s read only. But the information is very nicely displayed and the talking voice is nice to listen to. I’m on about David Lynch’s Dune btw, or the novel.

That’s like the year 150,000. So they keep technology at a distance. That is the law of the universe. Only the twisted Tle’Laxue have found a loophole. It’s the most dystopia vision of a future imaginable on their planet. But their technology changes the universe due to it’s amazing abilities.

@@DamnedSilly "It's a searchable database of crowdsourced information of dubious accuracy." That sounds a lot like ChatGPT.

It's not normal to me. I hate that some people have their face in their phones practically all the time no matter the occasion.

@@heatherprincipe8537 You are so correct, it is not normal behavior. It is, however, the behavior of an addict in my view. Examples of other types of dopamine delivery devices are cocaine or heroin.

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I feel like being that guy today. Writing-wise: nearly all phones ever are rectangles, not squares)))

Samantha Bee? Are you gay? Mate? Do you wear a mask still??

I shared this with them. 😊 Thanks!

which your should be you're? they all look correct to me? like wtf? @@jabzilla21

I always assumed the feature of communicative tech would be watches. I wonder if anyone is working towards that end?

@@robertmcdonald1245 That's what I imagine the next tech step to be; holographic technologies with watches or glasses as their source.

Now we just need a watch to teleport us to the command center to speak with Zordon that is trapped in a time warp.