Does anyone remember the first Smartphone or smartphone that was marketed? Was it the iPhone that Steve Jobs pulled out of his hat in 2007 and would end up ending the undeniable leadership of Nokia at that time? Possibly yes, the iPhone of that year was the first device that could be defined as intelligent, although characteristics as such it is not that it had many. Perhaps its multi-touch screen, which Nokia managers could not understand what users would use it for.
However, a few years earlier, in 1998, the first mobile phone that was given the surname of Smartphone appeared on the market. It was the Ericsson GS88 , also known as ‘Penelope’, and of course it lacked any ‘ smart ‘ functionality. It was never commercialized.
Today we can talk about devices with functionalities that make them intelligent, such as voice assistants such as Siri on the iPhone, Cortana on the few Nokia or Microsoft on the market, Google Assistant on Android devices, or Bixby in Samsung terminals. Also the maps, such as those of Google or Apple that integrate their devices, we can consider them as ‘smart’ applications that guide us where we want to move.
Huawei’s latest premium device, the Mate 10 launched in the last quarter of 2017, carries the first processor with any Artificial Intelligence feature . And it’s true. I have had the opportunity to test it, and the photographic recognition of objects and scenes and the translator, incredibly fast and with a translation quality worthy of note, are pleasantly surprised.
The experts , however, point out that it will be the year 2023 when smartphones will be truly ‘smart’ thanks to the fact that all the factors will come together to make it so: improved connectivity thanks to 5G, neural and neuromorphic processors that will mimic the behavior of the human brain, more and better sensors, greater memory capacity, and artificial intelligence applications with more advanced developments in machine learning , natural language processing, speech recognition, etc.
The consulting firm Deloitte , for example, points out that “by 2023 5G networks should already have been launched in most developed countries , offering higher data transmission speeds and shorter latency or response times. In China alone, there will be more than a billion 5G users in five years ”.
Dedicated chips with Artificial Intelligence , explains the consultancy, will probably have become standard in all smartphones by 2023 , whether they are Premium, medium or low range, and will be the most commonly used to assist machine learning applications to offer better recommendations. on routes, more realistic augmented reality or more attractive photos. ” Two thirds of Smartphone owners in the next five years will use at least one Artificial Intelligence application on their device , and about 80 percent will be aware that they have a terminal with these capabilities.”
The sensors will be another of the components improved in the Smartphone in 2023. For the analysts, the infrared camera in the frontal zone of the device will end up imposing as a biometric authentication system to the fingerprint systems , which will probably be utrasonic, which will allow the Fingerprint recognition through glass and metal, even when fingers are wet and greasy. Even the GPS sensors will be more precise, and will allow a location with a margin of error of just 30 centimeters, compared to the current five meters.
Deloitte also predicts by 2023 that more than three-quarters of smartphone owners in developed countries will use some form of biometric authentication , and 80 percent of smartphones will have at least one dedicated biometric sensor, such as a fingerprint. 3-D facial scanner or reader. Currently only 29 percent of smart device users use fingerprint authentication, while about 42 percent of devices have a dedicated fingerprint sensor.
Also relevant for the improvement of Artificial Intelligence capabilities will be memory. Smartphones in 2023 will logically have more storage memory . The average will be, according to the experts, 128 GB, compared to the current 32 GB, so there will be more space for applications that use machine learning or machine learning.
Finally, says Deloitte, although lithium ion will continue to be the basis of almost all batteries used in smartphones, the greater efficiency of neural and neuromorphic processors that will take advantage of Artificial Intelligence capabilities will help reduce the use and consumption of batteries. batteries, something that the Kirin 970 processor that fits the Huawei Mate 10 is capable of doing today, with great success as I have seen.
And in that future by 2023, already as a true smart device, the Smartphone will become the Swiss key that will be able to authenticate its owners in physical and digital environments, including houses, hotel rooms, cars, buses, trains, airplanes, commerce. electronic, or websites of financial institutions.
