Week 10 - BSIT200 - Mobile Devices Developments

This week in class we went over mobile devices and especially the two most common operating systems for them Apple and Android. Mobile devices have become so rooted in the modern world that nowadays it's hard to remember a world without them. Nowadays the progress of new inventions or developments with mobile devices has slowed significantly from a couple years ago.

Some of the newer inventions have just been brighter screens or foldable screens which aren't really groundbreaking developments. The only big updates just come in the form of hardware updates like upgraded processors or developments in the operating system. There are rumors of a smartphone developed by Tesla that will allow for solar power charging which could be a game-changer for people that live where it's sunny most of the time.

As far as devices themselves, something that has always been talked about is the development of glasses that could almost function the same as a smartphone with the use of eye movements or a device that could function like a mouse. I assume that this technology hasn't gained much traction after Google Glass stopped being developed. 

Artificial Intelligence will be the next big step with smartphones and they will help through voice assistants, photography, augmented reality, and real-time language translation.