Smartphone trends 2022

Smartphone trends 2022

This List covers trend insights about the future of Smartphone trends, insights curated in 2022.

This List covers trend insights about the future of Smartphone trends, insights curated in 2022.

Curated by

  • Quantumrun-TR

Last updated: 20 December 2022

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Xiaomi sold 34.7M smartphones in first half of 2015, up 33% year-on-year
Tech Crunch
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi today confirmed that it sold just shy of 35 million phones in the first half of this year.
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Planet of the phones
The Economist
The smartphone is ubiquitous, addictive and transformative
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The elephant in the room is a phone
Scholarly Kitchen
Publishers have underestimated how disruptive mobile technology potentially can be. We are likely to see an entirely new ecosystem develop with the smart phone at the center.
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Half of the world will be using the internet by 2018
Trusted Reviews
Around half of the world’s entire population will be accessing the internet at least once a month by 2018, according to new estimates.
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Chasing the next billion with Sundar Pichai
The Verge
Chasing the next billion with Google's Sundar Pichai
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Podcast: What comes after the smartphone
Soundcloud - a16z
Stream a16z Podcast: What Comes After the Smartphone by a16z from desktop or your mobile device
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The $24 billion data business that telcos don't want to talk about
Adage
Under the radar, Verizon, Sprint, and other carriers have partnered with firms including SAP to manage and sell data.
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Is Google building its own processors? job listing hints at mountain view’s ‘chip development effort’
TechTimes
Google seems like it's going to start manufacturing its own brand of chips soon based on a job posting, which is looking for a multimedia chip architect.
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Wireless: the next generation
Economist
A new wave of mobile technology is on its way, and will bring drastic change
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Why glass is critical to the future of tech
Recode
We usually look right through it, but glass deserves some props.
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Chinese brands Huawei, Lenovo, Xiaomi and more dominate global smartphone industry
International Business Times
Seven of the 10 biggest smartphone brands in the world come from China as they outshine players like LG, HTC and Sony.
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The next big thing in phones may not be a phone
Reuters
Nearly a decade after the iPhone broke the mould for mobile phones the question being asked is whether the evolution of the smartphone has finally come to an end, as even Apple now treats older, smaller 4-inch screens as something new.
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IBM’s resistive computing could accelerate Artificial Intelligence by 5000 times over Nvidia GPUs
Next Big Future
IBM making progress with resistive computing. the idea for resistive computing is to have compute units that are analog in nature, small in substance, and can
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Will smartphones ever be obsolete?
Time
New technologies could replace the phone in your pocket, argues technology analyst Tim Bajarin.
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Two-thirds of adults worldwide will own smartphones next year
Recode
That’s up from 63 percent this year. Ad spending, meanwhile, is still catching up.
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China’s phone market is now dominated by five companies, none of which is Samsung
The Verge
Xiaomi, Huawei, the Oppo-Vivo duo, and Apple now account for 91 percent of sales
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Samsung is making a folding phone... but how will it work?
Wired
Flexible smartphones like Samsung's rumoured Galaxy X have been promised for years but technical challenges face the companies racing to bring folding touchscreens to market
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17 patents that will change your screen’s design and display
Interesting Engineering
Smart devices are constantly evolving, and so are their screens. Here are just some exciting developments in screen technology to look forward to.
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We have reached peak screen. Now revolution is in the air.
New York Times
With smartphones, everything digital has been managed through screens. Now that all of our visual capacity has been captured, the tech giants are starting to build a less eyes-only world.
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A comprehensive guide to the messy, frustrating science of cellphones and health
Vox
With 5G networks coming, understanding the health effects of radio-frequency radiation is more urgent than ever.
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The explosive race to totally reinvent the smartphone battery
Wired
Lithium-ion batteries power everything from smartphones and laptops to electric cars and e-cigarettes. But, with lithium close to breaking point, researchers are scrambling for the next battery breakthrough
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Folding phones are the stuff of science fiction
The Verge
Samsung is following science fiction’s lead: gadgets with expanding screens have appeared in Westworld, The Expanse, Firefly, Star Trek Beyond, Looper, Minority Report, The One, Earth Final Conflict and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. These examples say something about the power of foldable screens.
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We’re no longer in smartphone plateau. We’re in the smartphone decline.
New York Magazine
Growth in smartphone sales stopped surging years ago. In the next decade, they’re likely to decline. What does that world look like?
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Samsung patents phone display that projects star wars-like holograms
Toms Guide
According to the patent, the device doesn’t need viewers to look at a flat surface at a specific angle to see the hologram.
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The golden age of the iphone is ending
Medium
Apple’s premier gadget faces a less certain future than ever as the market shifts under its feet.
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How the new VR screen could end the smartphone
Techcrunch
The only way to get more information from a smartphone screen is to bring the pixels closer to our eyes, with the device somehow mounted on our heads rather than holding it in our hands.
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Intel patent heralds foldable future merging phone and pc
Tom's Guide
A newly unearthed patent shows a three-fold device that transforms from phone to full-size tablet.
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Samsung unfolds the future with a whole new mobile category: introducing Galaxy Fold
Samsung
Samsung Unfolds the Future with a Whole New Mobile Category: Introducing Galaxy Fold
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Watch Samsung unveil its foldable phone — The Galaxy Fold
YouTube - Tech Insider
At its Galaxy Unpacked 2019 event, Samsung showed off its first foldable phone. Starting at $1,980, the phone will be available in the US starting in April.M...
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BOE 12.3" Rollable Phone, 7.7" Foldable Phone, BD Cell, Printed OLED, 8K VR, Automotive, mini-LED
Youtube - Charbax
At SID Display Week 2019, BOE shows their latest 12.3" Rollable Phone, 7.7" Foldable Phone, many other flexible displays, UHD displays, micro-displays, other...
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The smartphone multiplier: Toward a trillion-dollar economy
Deloitte
The market for smartphone apps, accessories, and ancillary devices is almost as big as the market for smartphones themselves—and it's growing fast.
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Chinese smartphone brands build consortium to challenge Google Play domination
Digitaltrends
Four smartphone giants -- Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo -- have apparently formed an alliance to take on the dominance of Google Play, and provide a platform for developers to upload apps to all Chinese app stores at the same time.
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Samsung, not Apple, is leading the next exciting phone industry change: Foldables
Android Central
Apple innovates in many ways, across more than just phones, but it's clear now that Samsung is the company leading the next smartphone form factor change.
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With iOS 14, Apple once again crushes Android makers on software update support
Android Central
iPhones from 2015 will get the iOS 14 update and an Android phone you buy today will be lucky to get Android 12. You deserve better.
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Rollable smartphone: Is this the multifunctional design we’re waiting for?
Quantumrun Foresight
As customers clamor for larger smartphone screens, manufacturers look into the rollable design for solutions.
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The next big social platform is the smartphone’s homescreen
Tech Crunch
Homescreen social networking apps are becoming increasingly popular among Gen Z users, who are looking for alternatives to the dominant players in the market. These apps offer a more simple and private way to connect with friends and share content and are being marketed toward tweens and younger teens. Although there is still some question as to whether these apps will have long-term staying power, they have already begun to impact the social networking landscape. To read more, use the button below to open the original external article.
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Young kids believe that YouTube videos are better for learning than TV shows or videos created on a researcher’s smartphone.
The Conversation
YouTube may have more potential to encourage children to learn than you’d think.