Next-generation super-phones won’t just be slimmer versions of today’s devices; they will be entirely different machines. Chipmakers are reinventing every processor that powers your portable. From PS3-quality videogames to built-in cameras that can fill in for your current point-and-shoot, a chip for it is in the works. And thanks to shrinking transistors, the new phones won’t be any larger or more power-hungry than today’s ultrathin models. Below, we've pulled together the technologies being released in the next year and a half to build the smartest smartphone possible.
It will be cool for like a while but there are always cheaper, more compact or have more stuff that you can do on it. The trend might be on for a while then get beat by a better item within a year or two. I think that they should just make the best one with the tech they have and just put everything in it or something and sell it for more money. Instead of selling it in little chunks, but that is how they make money so I guess selling it little by little would be an good for them.
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