SEE PHOTOS: 5 Awesome Future Smart Phone Ideas You Never Would Have Imagined

When you picture the future, what kind of smartphones do you see everyone using?

Are they like this? 

This? 

Or this? 

Holographic phone

If so, you must have a really rich imagination! But people in the 1970s may never imagined the kind of technology that we have now in 2015.

1. The First Phase of Mobile Phone Development

April 3rd, 1973 is the day that mobile phones were born, this was when the first mobile phone call was ever made.

Marty Cooper, former vice president of Motorola and the world's first mobile call device

But it wasn’t until 1983 that Motorola introduced the first mobile phone DynaTAC, which was called the "Big Brother” in China. The phone was priced at nearly $4,000 at that time, which is about $9,000 by modern standards.

Motorola DynaTAC

2. Current Mobile Phone Development

“Smart” phones became the new buzzword, but it seems now we may have been too early to use this phrase - our phones aren’t smart enough yet!

Truly intelligent devices are capable of thinking faster and deeper than humans can - when you get up on a dark morning, they can help you feel happy; they can you shop online just with voice controls; they can even automatically identify your preferences for other things you might like, so all you need to do is sit back and wait for the courier to knock.

However, before we can reach the next generation of smartphones, we still have some obstacles.

3. Problems Blocking Phone Development

①. Battery

①. Battery

The pace of battery development has lagged way behind the improvements we see in other areas such as memory and CPU.

From 2005-2014, the average density of batteries doubled, which may seem like a huge improvement at first, but take a look at these graphs:

From 2007-2014, the processors used in iPhones have improved by 50 times - 50! Suddenly it becomes a lot clearer that battery development is comparatively sluggish.

② Processor

Moore's law, the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years.

Moore's law

So, to improve processor performance, will piling up transistors in chips be OK? It’s actually a little naïve.

In fact, the chip components can not be infinitely reduced. This means that, one day, the number of components per unit area will reach an absolute limit. Therefore, the development of processors will also eventually encounter a bottleneck.

③ Screen and body material

After so many years of development, mobile phone materials have gone through several revolutions, but the technology is still not adequate at this stage for the next generation.

For the screen, we need faster response times, better durability, and lower power consumption.

4. Predictions for Future Phones

① Flip Phones

②Transparent Phones

③ Holographic Touch Phones

④ Chip Phones

⑤Unknown Species

Ten years ago, when everyone was still using classic Nokia phones, not many people could predict what we would have ten years later. Our phones now can be so strong that we use them for shopping, taking taxis, working out where we are on a map and so many other functions. We photograph our surroundings; we use it to deliver our joyand our sadness to family and friends thousands of miles away.

Everyone's life has been unwittingly changed by technology, so no matter what changes will happen on mobile phones in the future, the changes will surely be beyond our imaginations.