Smartphone is like a great, attract market for many manufacturers now, but have you ever wondered how long it can last for? How about FIVE years and then it will be replaced with…

5 more years and smartphones will disappear? Are you serious?

Technology is developing so fast and we are seeing many modern devices get launched one after one. In the mobile industry, things are happening in kind of the same way. We moved from basic phones to smartphones and then… Most of us do not know what will come next but we are aware that some day smart device’s place will be taken over by a more advanced technology. Don’t you think?

Lately, we have spotted a consumer survey for this topic. It was conducted by Ericsson owned ConsumerLab. Accordingly, smartphones will become obsolete in the next five years and totally can be replaced with artificial intelligence. Moreover, half of the study’s respondents told that mobile technology would be redundant by 2021 since the artificial intelligence would grow so strongly to enable people to interact with objects without a smartphone or tablet.

“A smartphone in the hand, it’s really not that practical. For example, not when one is driving a car or cooking. And there are many situations where display screens are not so good. Therefore, one in two think that smartphones will belong to the past within five years,” said Ericsson ConsumerLab’s Rebecka Cedering Angstrom.

But in fact, things can be different…

However, we also need to note that the research lab just surveyed 100,000 people in Sweden and 39 other countries. Meanwhile, we have around 1.9 billion smartphone users in the world, which makes 100,000 only 0.0052 per cent of the current active users. That may be too small to claim smart handsets will not last long. Do you agree? Tell us your opinion!

(Source: gizbot)