News & Reviews:   Future technology

With news saying they are returning, Nokia is again becoming a hot topic among tech enthusiasts online. Now we have seen a photo that may share how the next smartphone from Nokia looks like.

While we are getting new processors, screen and even housing design – the humble battery is still essentially the same tech that the ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia used way back. Now MIT may have just cracked the code to make current battery more efficient – up to two times if the report is correct.

Last month we reported that Computer Coding will be introduced as part of the greater Malaysian school curriculum from next year. MDeC has stepped into the fray by announcing a new initiative called My Digital Maker.

Japan Display Inc, (JDI), one of the major smartphone display supplier in the world, just announced their new display technology called “Full Active” panel. The new design boasts it can reduce the width of the bottom bezel down to as narrow as the other three sides, potentially reducing the size of smartphones using this display type.

Standard smartphones today are built around the 16:9 screen ratio when rotated to the side (apart from the LG Optimus Vu that had a 4:3 screen ratio). Right now however LG may want to buck the trend, as they just patented a new screen form factor for mobile, dubbed “UltraWide Mobile+”.

Sci-fi is fast becoming science fact. The smartphone was inconceivable at the turn of the century, and yet we now bring supercomputers in our pockets. Now Samsung has just filed for two patents in the United States, the patents are for flexible smartphones that can bend using ‘artificial muscle’.

If you want to see the next Angry Birds or Flappy Birds phenomenon come out from Malaysia, you better support this initiative from the government. Starting from next year, students in Standard 3 will get to participate in programming classes right in their school curriculum, according to MDeC.

We may soon see more foldable phone technology implemented in future smartphones, if these patents from Samsung are any indication. They have patents for just about any and every form imaginable, and we may see one (or more!) of them in the next 12 months.

A new patent application by Samsung Display published today in South Korea shows a possible 3-in-1 device that transforms from a watch into a phone, and even a tablet. This transformation is made possible the new technology based on stretchable OLED display.