2013 mobile phone new technology 5 points of view

2013 will undoubtedly be a year in which all kinds of new technologies will advance by leaps and bounds. In the past year, some cool new technologies have emerged in the field of smart phones, some of which have matured, while others are expected to be more widely used next year. Here are some of the new technical highlights that you may want to pay attention to when buying a cell phone next year.

1. Wireless charging

This technology has appeared on this year's Nokia Lumia 920 and LG Nexus 4, and wireless charging utilizes the principle of magnetic induction, similar to the principle of a transformer. It is expected that more handsets will support this function next year, but due to the relatively high price of the charging board (above 50 US dollars), most handsets should still use it as an option. In addition, thanks to the introduction of the Qi wireless charging standard, in the future, we only need to purchase a charging pad to use it in a variety of wireless charging devices.

2.5 inch 1080p screen

HTC J Butterfly has further raised the screen standard of high-end smart phones to 5-inch 1080p, with an amazing 440ppi and true HD video support. In January of next year's CES and February's Apple WMC, we should be able to see more products that support this new standard in place of the popular 4.7-inch 720P standard in 2012. It is expected that in the near future Lenovo, Sharp, ZTE, LG, Samsung, and Motorola will all display new products using 1080p panels.

Obviously, battery life is still a bottleneck in these large-screen high-resolution mobile phones, and it is hoped that breakthroughs in battery technologies will support the development of new technologies.

3. ARM Cortex-A15 processor

In 2013, the more powerful Cortex-A15 processor will replace the 2012 Cortex-A9 on a series of new system-on-a-chip (SoC) systems. Currently, there is a SoC that uses the A15 core, the Samsung Exynos 5 5250 (1.7 GHz dual-core A15 CPU) used on the Nexus 10 tablet, and is expected to be used in smart phones next year.

ARM claims Cortex-A15 is 40% faster than A9, and we will also see more powerful new SoCs from ARM, PowerVR and NVIDIA in the GPU field.

In addition to the Exynos 5 chip, the NVIDIA Tegra 4 chipset with a 4-core Cortex-A15 CPU will also be available. In addition, we will also see TI OMAP's 5 Series SoC and ST-Ericsson's Nova chips on some new phones.

Although the ARM Cortex-A15 processor will definitely appear on Android devices next year, it is unclear whether this chip will appear on other platforms. Windows Phone will continue to use the Qualcomm chipset and Apple will continue to adopt A6/A6x chips. The BlackBerry 10 may also use the old chip family. One possibility is that Windows RT and Surface that are already using NVIDIA Tegra may use ARM Cortex-A15 instead. Only time can tell us this.

4 camera low light shooting effect improvement

Nokia established a new benchmark for low-light shooting of smartphones through the Lumia 920's optical image stabilization system (PureView). In 2013, it is expected that more companies will adopt similar new technologies to enhance the night shooting effect of smartphone cameras.

For example, Apple is very likely to spend a lot of thought in this regard. The effect of the iPhone camera has been very good, but the company will continue to improve its low light shooting results. In addition, Nokia is expected to apply the floating lens assembly technology used in the Lumia 920 to the next WP flagship and other models of the company's mobile phones.

5. LTE popularization

In 2012, many new handsets began to support 4G LTE, and support for LTE will become more common in 2013. Operators all over the world are beginning to fully roll out LTE networks. Mobile phone manufacturers will need to ensure that LTE support not only appears on flagship models, but also includes low-end models.

In addition, it is believed that the new chipset next year will be able to better support LTE and bring faster wireless download speeds.

New technologies that we may not see next year

Although we will see the above series of exciting technological advances in the mobile phone market next year, there are still some areas that may not have much progress, such as:

1. Battery technology. In addition to using larger batteries, lithium-ion and lithium-polymer batteries will still dominate the market, and performance and volume will not change much.

2. The regression of the QWERTY keyboard. At one point, many high-end smart phones have provided a physical keyboard, but as the size of the mobile phone becomes smaller and smaller, and the integration function becomes more and more, the return of the physical keyboard is unlikely to happen. The biggest hope is on the BlackBerry's mobile phone, but the brand has gradually moved away from the mainstream market.

3. Pico projector. We have seen this new technology on Samsung Galaxy Beam, but next year the mobile phone market integrated projector may not be popular.

4. Flexible or transparent display. This technology is certainly cool, but the reality of entering the mainstream market is still immature.

5. The size is significantly reduced. We have already seen some mobile phones with a thickness of only 6-7mm, but we cannot see further reductions in cell phone thickness in the short term unless there is a significant improvement in battery technology.