Tim Rundle (Photography by Jim Stephenson)
Speakers from Conran and BT described their vision for smartphone technology at the Future of Wireless International Conference in London this week.
“We are going to want products that give us back some control over our appetite for information,” said Tim Rundle, design director at Conran and Partners.
“We need products that enable us to cure our tech-inflicted nervous twitches, our incessant downswiping to refresh and constant pocket-ward glances in the hope of new notifications.”
According to Rundle, studies show UK businesses loose around 105 million work days to stress related absences, equating to a loss of around £1.24bn.
“There’s little doubt that constant internet access and the expectation of constant contactability contributes to heightened work related stress. As producers, makers and designers we set out to create products and services that address a need or solve a problem; but we’ve now succeeded in making products and services that have created a new need,” said Rundle.
The conference asked whether technology can solve the problem it has created.
“Absolutely. In fact technology is the only thing that can save us from itself,”said Rundle.
Jeffrey Ju, senior vice-president and general manager of wireless communication at MediaTek, also believes the best is yet to come.
“Consumers are now putting design and usability first, presenting the challenge of delivering high performance and innovative multimedia, with larger displays, slim designs and power efficiency for longer battery life,” he said.
He pointed to the potential for new vision processing to support applications from non-contact heart rate detection to identifying unknown objects.
He also pointed to the increasing role of the internet of things.
“The phone will play a major role in the smart home of the future, but it also won’t need to be at the centre of everything. Instead, we will see seamless hardware and software access and sharing between different devices from cameras and lights to TVs and kitchen appliances,” said Ju.
How will the industry meet the ever growing demand for mobile data driven by the smartphone?
“We are seeing an underlying common technology evolution that is allowing mobile networks to deliver bandwidths previously thought to be the preserve of fixed networks, core optical networks to advance to multi-terabit capability and copper access systems to offer speeds of 500Mbit/s or greater,” said Tim Whitley, managing director, research and innovation, at BT.
“Innovation at the line coding level, powered by Moore’s law, is driving these remarkable performance shifts and will help to support an increasingly connected world,” he said.
Cambridge Wireless, in partnership with UK Trade and Investment, organises the Future of Wireless International Conference.
Participating companies include: MediaTek, Accenture, The KTN, CSR, ANSYS UK, Rohde & Schwarz, TTP, Cambridge Consultants, IC Resources, NEC Corporation, PA Consulting, S-Tech Insurance, InterDigital Europe, Microlease and Keysight Technologies, u-blox, BSI, Anite and Microwave Marketing.
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