Phone Experts Reckon Smartphones Will Be Gone By 2020

The days of humans pretty much having devices fused to our hands 24/7 may be limited, according to a new report.

The report, by Swedish telecoms experts Ericsson, suggests smartphones could be about to die out – in the next five years.

They quizzed 100,000 people in Sweden and 39 other countries, and found that many people believe smartphones are ‘over’.

Instead, we’ll speak to ‘artificially intelligent’ helpers without needing a screen, according to the people polled by the telecoms giant.

Many tech gurus predict that wearable gadgets such as Apple Watch will slowly start to replace smartphones – although few experts would expect the change to be THIS rapid.

‘A smartphone in the hand, it’s really not that practical,’ said Rebecka Cedering Ångström from Ericsson ConsumerLab.

‘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,”

‘Things just go so fast now from the idea to the mass market. We have not studied the technology, this is just what consumers think.’

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