Do you think we have peaked with our needs for cell phone tech ?

We have not peaked. The technology rush will continue.

I thought our need for cell phone tech peaked when they came out with slim phones that could make and receive calls and maintain an address book. I never got the need for photo/video/internet capability. I don’t see phones ever replacing computers, video cams, cameras.

@lilikoi Phones now vibrate, too. I don’t see them replacing… you know…

It’s not about bragging rights, at least not to me. It’s about having the internet in your pocket… oh, and it occasionally makes phone calls.

Voice communication, what a radical concept.

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You can make the best phone in the world and if the infrastructure isnt there to support it, there won’t be much benefit.
The phone will still only be as good as the carrier.

@Pretty_Lilly While that’s not really up my alley, I’d be happy to send you a check for UKGP 1.50 XD

We’re technology obsessive. My guess is that our needs wont ever “peak”.

For a lot of people, yes, it is about bragging rights. Some people like flashing their new gadgets to their friends, family and co-workers. That’s just the way people are.

I usually dont adopt a new product until the craze calms, the prize drops and I’m sure I’m going to like it.

Technilogy will never peak

I don’t think so. iphone and blackberry are over crowding all young communities here. As more people care about the needs to socialize and gain more popularity through the ever sophisticated cell phone technology. What’s new will eventually get into their hand soon or later only for their lifestyle and popularity.

It’s been my experience that technology creates a need for itself, as strange as that sounds. There was a time when no one would have thought to put a QWERTY keyboard into a phone, but then somebody figured out text messaging and it sort of snowballed from there. If you build it, they will buy – or not. Lots of things have ended up on the tech scrap heap, e.g., the Apple Newton. But its technology lives on in their current generation of PDAs.

Not yet… if we compare our usage and devices to Japan we haven’t reached the peak yet, we all are amazed on 3G meanwhile they have been using 4G for the past few years…and i think they might be switching to 5G. There are still some features that are still missing… video conference, holographic calling, 3D Phones…yes mark my words…they will make them and full voice recognition…

Not even close to peaked. I doubt it ever really will, at least not for a long time. The style and methods will change but the concept of instant/always on connectivity to an ever expanding pool is likely to be with us for the foreseeable future.

Do we “need” it. Not really, but it sure can be convenient and the more so it becomes the closer it gets to being a true need. And I’d hate to be in my, and most, business without it.

Not unless there’s some amazing breakthrough in compression or end point transmission at a price the average cell user can afford. Without those you’re completely reliant on the carriers improving their reliability, capacity, surge handling, and disaster recovery.

You would think, but sadly I’m sure they’ll come out with another silly feature. I definitely agree with @lilikoi – I’m lost with anything beyond a camera.

Nah, technology will never peak.

The cell phone in 2030 might have speech-based language translation capabilities and the one in 2050 could have tricoder capabilities. The one in 2080? Use your imagination. You’ve got 100 billion brain cells with 10,000 connections each. That makes for a lot of potential ideas to explore.

What has clearly peaked are the numbers of hours the cell phone is switched on. Now people have to learn to switch it off for a while before switching it back on.

@mattbrowne Dude, what’s a tricoder?

@bob_ Dude !! It’s a recorder installed in your Tricycle !!! For rich Tykes !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorder

@Pretty_Lilly Dude. Sweet.

@bob_ – A diagnostic device. It will tell you for example that your boss might have the Levodian flu, a disease quite common in Federation member planets.

@mattbrowne I’d settle for a device that told me if he had swine flu.

I look at it this way. There will always be people who want a cell phone to make and receive calls. I think there will always be phones that do just that.

For the rest of us, there’s continually on-going advances. I despise talking on the phone as it is. It’s great for me that if I am going to carry a cell phone anyway, it will do so much more, if I choose to take advantage of it. :)

@bob_ – I think remote fever sensors (for example at airports) are just 5–10 years away. A precise diagnosis which form of flu or influenza will take a bit longer.