So here we are at the end of 2021. It wasn’t exactly a year full of surprises in the smartphone world – Samsung released its Galaxy S21 series, Apple released its iPhone 13 series.
Business as usual. Most new flagship phones came out with small improvements over the previous models, mostly in the camera department and occasionally the display. Just how it was in 2020, and just how it’s shaping up to be in 2021.
We’re down to small camera upgrades – boring!
Apparently the average smartphone consumer is most interested in their smartphone’s camera quality above all else, so that’s the one thing that phone companies are consistently upgrading year over year.It’s not the speaker quality, the battery life, the performance or anything else that brands truly put their full effort to improve upon and wow you with.
Phones – those little rectangles we use to entertain ourselves, socialize, and occasionally watch society collapse in real time, have really reached their maximum potential, haven’t they?
At least when it comes to mainstream, flagship phones, there isn’t that much left to change and improve anymore.
So as it usually happens in the world of mobile technology – it’s coming time for something new. We had MP3 players, then MP4 video players came. We had those, then smartphones came to retire them next. But since smartphones became mainstream with the first iPhone 14 years ago, they haven’t been replaced with something better, yet.
But they will be. Companies are secretly, and not so secretly working on the next big thing. And it’s exciting!
Something new and huge is coming, and it’s not foldable or rollable phones (although they’re coming too)
Foldable phones seem like they’re on their way to becoming mainstream, thanks mostly to Samsung’s hard and consistent efforts to improve and market its Galaxy Z Fold and Galaxy Z Flip series worldwide.
Those two have been Samsung’s smartphone enthusiast phones for a few …….
