Coming era of wearable devices (phone + watches) smartphone will be eliminated?

Beijing February 22, according to foreign media reports, the U.S. " Forbes "magazine writer Christopher Long Term - Man, TX (Christopher Versace) recently wrote about the recent hubbub wearable computing devices give their views . Wen Texas believes that this device concept is not only recently appeared as early as ten years ago, the company has developed a similar product. With more and more companies began to focus on this area, wearable computing devices market sooner or later will become the same as crowded smartphone market.
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In the past few years, we all witness the transformation of mobile industrial equipment, these devices are the most basic mobile phones from the previous shift has many functions now become "smart phones." Of course, the device also evolved in order to bring a lot of convenience, and successfully changed the way we use these devices to call, send messages, listen to the radio, watch videos , and access to social networks.
Although after years of evolution, the size of these devices (such as Motorola Razr series or Samsung Galaxy models, etc.) ushered in tremendous changes, but all of these smart mobile devices has never been a change in the place, that is, Users still need to manually operate the equipment.
But I am afraid that this change will hit.
Recently, we saw countless newspapers in the media about Apple will launch a watch product news, outside of this equipment is now generally referred to as the "iWatch". Coincidentally, this is based in Kupudinuo technology company also recently applied for a number of different wearable computer equipment related patents, the latest in a patent is described as "bistable elastic bendable display." It is reported that Apple wants to design a flexible portable device worn by the user in order for a long time on the wrist or body elsewhere. Such devices such as Bluetooth or WiFi via a variety of protocols and other portable devices connected to each other, and in its flexible screen shows some information and status. Apple special emphasis in the application document will use the "bistable elastic" (Bi-stable spring) material, the purpose is to ensure the comfort when wearing the device, the patent as early as August 2011 for approval submitted to the U.S. Patent Office .
Uncommon
In fact, wearable computing devices is not a recent development concept. As early as ten years ago, the U.S. company will attempt to Xybernaut wearable device into the market, including a price of $ 1499, entitled "Poma" equipment. Previously, headquartered in Arizona, including equipment manufacturing service provider Three-Five Systems, and many other display device manufacturing companies have been efforts in this field. But at the time, due to the mobile network connectivity, processor performance and materials technology and other constraints, a similar product has never been recognized by the market.
Today, the current market has seen a variety of wearable computing devices, such as the Nike sport gauges Flueband, FitBit's "Flex band" and "Zip activity tracker" and the American sports equipment brand Under Armour The E39 sports tights and so on. Of course, not only those companies have interests in this area, because it incorporates the Jawbone, Pebble, MetaWatch and wearable computing startups Misfit Wearables these companies are eyeing this.
It should be said that the above list we can cite these smart phones and computers to share user motion data, and gives feedback healthy exercise equipment that people are starting to get more and more attention. Analysts expect we will be in next week's "2013 World Mobile Communications Conference "(2013 Mobile World Congress) to see more information on this aspect.
Future Prospects
With improved design, television and computing time increases endurance performance and improved network connectivity, it is now no longer need to carry a wearable device used in conjunction with a "tool belt", these devices are thus welcome came a new era. For example, rumors of Apple iWatch, Samsung smart watch and Google glasses on the consumer has no small attraction.
In this regard, I personally prefer a watch has a similar shape design, and equipped with Bluetooth connectivity wearable products. Through such a device, coupled with Apple's Siri voice assistant feature, I can easily listen to music, phone calls, listen to the radio and other functions. The terms of product definition, such a small volume iWatch even possible that the "Wall Street Journal ( blog , microblogging ) "call" cheap iPhone "product.
Apple, Samsung and Google eager to enter this market, we believe that sooner or later the field of wearable computing will become as crowded as the smart phone market, and the result is that the device and brought prices down as well as manufacturers of margins The decline forced some manufacturers out of the market competition. Currently, placed in these smart watches and glasses in front of Google problem is that the potential market for these devices where? How long before people abandon their smartphone devices, and began to embrace these newer gadgets?
There is no doubt that today the development of mobile technology has gone beyond mobile phones, smart phones and tablet PC category, and began to enter the "mHealth" (ie Mobile Health, also known as mobile health or mobile health), home automation, remote monitoring, and other fields. In this regard, I still think that technology companies compared with equipment providers will have a greater right to speak, which means that in our future discussions on new mobile devices, we should pay more attention to, such as Qualcomm, ARM, Broadcom and Skyworks Solutions These companies