7. Portable USB Storage

Smartphones are beginning to offer large amounts of storage by incorporating both integrated storage and the ability to add extra space by way of an external SD card. External memory cards are consistently lowering in price, making it a very cheap alternative to a physical USB key.

Mobile operating systems are beginning to be deployed with file managers, allowing you to effectively deal with different types of files you have on your device. They help facilitate the transferring of files between storage card and the integrated disk, much like a PC.

Smartphones communicate with The Cloud to serve your email and social networking information, a method that services such as Dropbox employ for the backing up and serving of photos, files and music.

You wouldn’t need a USB key if your smartphone could automatically pull all of your files from The Cloud.

8. Video Conferencing/Projectors

When you think of 3D presentations, you will automatically imagine wearing a pair of 3D glasses.

As the first 3D enabled high definition televisions are being rolled out, without the need for glasses, you can’t help but imagine being able to view a 3D presentation projected from the screen of your smartphone.

Mobile operators around the world are beginning to mobilise their 4G networks, offering super-fast connections to connected devices. If smartphones could pack in the technology, 4G networks would be able to provide significant bandwidth to allow businesses to connect with their staff and clients by way of a mobile 3D tele-conference.

Consumers would see the benefits, connecting to friends and family by way of a 3D video chat.

Conclusion

It’s logical to assume smartphones could reduce the need for dedicated gadgets like point-and-click cameras, mini-camcorders and MP3 players, all of which are already fully featured in most smartphones today.

The scope for innovation in smartphone technology is huge, there are lots of different features that smartphones will offer in the future. All we can do is speculate what will be the next must-have feature will be.

What do you feel your phone will end up replacing? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.

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