Era of the smartphone is ending - economist

[Ronzkie23]

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Agence France-Presse
Posted at 01/07/2013 4:09 PM | Updated as of 01/07/2013 4:10 PM

LAS VEGAS - The era of the smartphone is rapidly becoming a post-smartphone era, a key tech industry analyst said Sunday ahead of the opening of the world's biggest technology show.
Shawn DuBravac, chief economist at the Consumer Electronics Association, told a gathering that the smartphone has become so successful it is become a hub for people's digital lives, and less of a communications device.
"I think we are entering a post-smartphone era," he told journalists ahead of Tuesday's opening of the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
He said 65 percent of time spend on smartphones now is is "non communication activities" such as apps for health, entertainment or other activities.
"We have moved away not only from telephony but from communications being the primary part of these devices," he said.
"So it is not just a communications devices, it is a hardware hub around which people build services... the smartphone is becoming the viewfinder for your digital life."
DuBravac said this is among the key trends being watched as tens of thousands gather to show off the latest wares in global trillion-dollar technology sector.
Another trend is the high-density screens which are being developed for smartphones, tablets, computers and bigger devices such as televisions.
"This has implications for the Web generally," he said.
Because people have higher-quality screens, "We are going to demand high resolution images, and that will have an impact on a variety of Internet services.
"We see it happening at the smartphone level. But this is a shift that is happening across all screens."
Still, DuBravac said the so-called ultra-HD televisions touted by some makers has been slow to catch on because of high costs.
Only around 1.5 million of these TVs are expected to be sold annually by 2016, he said.
"We are not expecting this to be a technology that ramps very quickly," he noted.
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[Rakizta]

samot na sa developed countries where people can spend a few hundred dollars more for this smartphones ,but sa Pinas nga mas daghan pa ang pobre kaysa arangan, awww, mantinir lang sa og ordinary phone.

[immersiondepth]

ahm murag wala ko kasabot ani...smartphones ilisan ug "Ultra" HDTVs?

[boyq]

ahm murag wala ko kasabot ani...smartphones ilisan ug "Ultra" HDTVs?

no. another news ra na. ang gimean man kai ang pagka-'phone' sa smartphone padulong na muend. more like going to be a 'smartdevice' instead.

[leo_trams]

a phone is a device. a smartphone is also a smartdevice.

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[SioDenz]

Basically he is telling us things that we already know

[noy.juan]

smart phone evolve from dumb phones we used to have.... but apparently some smart phone user are still dumb... kanus-a pud kaha ma upgrade sila...

[SioDenz]

smart phone evolve from dumb phones we used to have.... but apparently some smart phone user are still dumb... kanus-a pud kaha ma upgrade sila...

di na nah imung problema, wa man kaha sila nangayu nimu para palit sa phone

[gcc4426]

smart phone evolve from dumb phones we used to have.... but apparently some smart phone user are still dumb... kanus-a pud kaha ma upgrade sila...

kung ako nokia 3310, tawgan tikag ingrato bai. dumbphone diay ha. murag ala kapahimos da... haha

also, the last time i recall, smart phones are not jst for people nga taas ug intelligence or kaha self claimed brayt.
mamroblema lage, nasuya ka no?

[tele9]

nah! mo-end nalang kuno ang era sa smartphone
pero hangtod karon, wala pa jud tawn ko'y smartphone
kafaeeeett