Yahoo – AFP,
7 January 2013
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| A New Year text message is pictured on a smartphone on December 31, 2012 in Paris. The era of the smartphone is rapidly becoming a post- smartphone era, a key tech industry analyst said ahead of the opening of the world's biggest technology show |
The era of the
smartphone is rapidly becoming a post-smartphone era, a key tech industry
analyst said ahead of the opening of the world's biggest technology show.
Shawn
DuBravac, chief economist at the Consumer Electronics Association, told a
gathering that the smartphone has become so successful it is become a hub for
people's digital lives, and less of a communications device.
"I
think we are entering a post-smartphone era," he told journalists ahead of
Tuesday's opening of the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
He said 65
percent of time spend on smartphones now is is "non communication
activities" such as apps for health, entertainment or other activities.
"We
have moved away not only from telephony but from communications being the
primary part of these devices," he said.
"So it
is not just a communications devices, it is a hardware hub around which people
build services... the smartphone is becoming the viewfinder for your digital
life."
DuBravac
said this is among the key trends being watched as tens of thousands gather to
show off the latest wares in global trillion-dollar technology sector.
Another
trend is the high-density screens which are being developed for smartphones,
tablets, computers and bigger devices such as televisions.
"This
has implications for the Web generally," he said.
Because
people have higher-quality screens, "We are going to demand high
resolution images, and that will have an impact on a variety of Internet
services.
"We
see it happening at the smartphone level. But this is a shift that is happening
across all screens."
Still,
DuBravac said the so-called ultra-HD televisions touted by some makers has been
slow to catch on because of high costs.
Only around
1.5 million of these TVs are expected to be sold annually by 2016, he said.
"We
are not expecting this to be a technology that ramps very quickly," he
noted.
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