Future phones: what's in store for us?

TRANSPARENT

Concept phones are a great way of getting a glimpse at how phones of the future may develop.

One such vision for the mobile phone development was Nokia's The Morph phone, which it was claimed would "transform the user's experience".Designed by Tapani Tyhanen, who was director and head of Nokia's Research Center Laboratory in Cambridge, The Morph suggests that phones of the future will involve transparency and transformability.In layman's terms, this means future mobile phones may be bendy and come in many shapes and forms.If the Morph is an accurate representation, in future the entire mobile phone casing will be a display.

FLEXIBLE

For years, Samsung has been showing off flexbile concept phones at trade shows that are so robust they can be folded in two by the user.But so far, the closest it has come to bringing the technology to market was the Galaxy Round smartphone.

This featured a significantly less jaw-dropping curved screen and sold disappointingly.

However, given its more recent innovative approach to smartphone shapes, CF: the Galaxy Edge, which was home to a ridged panel that doubled as a second screen, we think Samsung will continue to experiment with flexible phone technology and fully expect it to be first to market with a bendable handset.