FUTURE
It's unclear what mobile phones will look like in ten or twenty years time.
Will we all be wearing them instead of carrying them? Who knows? It's certainly seems possible, given the leaps that we have seen in recent technology.
The are a few problems though with miniturisation:
1. If things get too small how will we ever see or be able to operate them.
2. The smaller mobile phones get the smaller and more powerful mobile phone batteries need to become. The technology to wear a mobile phone on our wrist already exists but the battery technology does not, or at least not to make it a viable option, due to the very short talk time.
One thing is certain - the popularity of mobile phones will continue to grow, as will the number of mobile phone handsets. In ten years time it will be unusual to see someone without a mobile phone, unlike ten years ago when it was only the rich and geeks amongst us that owned a mobile phone. You can't just put the growth down to the developed world - believe it or not, today, one in three people in Kenya owns a mobile phone.
The internet experience on our mobile phones is sure to get even richer given the continuing advances in data transfer speeds and the speed of the processors which drive our mobile devices. Who would have dreamed a decade ago that we'd be able to video call each other or watch mobile TV (via DVB-H) on our mobile phones. It may have been a dream then but it's a reality today.