Smartphone Technology: 6 futuristic features that your next smartphone will have - by Ian Morris

What tech is coming up next is the perennial question for mobile devices, as Google I/O and Apple's WWDC have shown so clearly of late. The need to sell phones to people who already have perfectly good phones already drives manufacturers to invent new things constantly.

So what's coming up in the near future for the device hardware in your pocket, ready to power these increasingly feature-rich operating systems? Having spied what the likes of chip specialist Qualcomm and its ilk are working on, not to mention the odd stock market shift, we can make an educated guess. Nothing is certain, but this isn't the distant future – most of these features are running now, behind closed doors, on the chipsets in your current phone.

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