Phones & The Internet of Things

Will Phones Still be relevant by 2025?

IoT devices in 2025 and will mobile phones become irrelevant due to new devices such as wearable devices? Right now it may seem impossible for such a thing as mobile phones to become irrelevant as they are almost never way from us however with new technology such as smartwatches and even hoodies that function as a phone it's becoming easier to go without a phone as it's far easier to just look at your wrist to view a text than to find your phone in your pocket and then turn it on and then see the text and when it comes down to it the easier product to use the more likely it will be used over the more time-consuming product aka the mobile phone.

We have already started to see this happen with people getting rid of home phones entirely and using only their mobile phone instead so if new devices such as smartwatches keep coming out isn't it only a matter of time before mobile devices become the next home phones with many getting rid of them entirely? The prediction of cell phones going obsolete has been called before in 2017 in a business insider which said: "Weinberger reasons that new technologies, like augmented and virtual reality, voice-activated assistants, and physical gestures, will eliminate the need for a smartphone"(Tim Bajarin, April 18, 2017).

Another new device which would threaten to make mobile phones irrelevant is a device called neural lace developed by neuralnk which, "the company, called Neuralink, was developing "neural lace" technology that would allow people to communicate directly with machines without going through a physical interface"(Danielle Muoio Mar. 27, 2017) meaning that if you wished to text someone you would not need to pull out any device not a phone and not a smartwatch all you would need to do is connect to the device with your mind and you would be able to text that person and in that case why would you ever need a mobile phone? of course, right now the device is only being used to treat certain diseases but it has the potential to overtake phones with its easy usage of another device similar to neural ace made by Facebook would "developing noninvasive brain-computer interface technology that would allow people to communicate with external hardware devices"(Danielle Muoio Mar. 27, 2017).

IoT short for the internet of things have been estimated to be at 15.41 billion devices connected in 2015 and now are estimated to be at 23.14billion in 2018 so in 7 years from now in 2025 it's estimated by"IDC found that there will be 80 billion connected devices in 2025"( IDC, February 15th, 2018) which would help "generate 180 trillion gigabytes of new data that year"( IDC, February 15th, 2018). It's forecasted that by 2025 there will be over 8billion mobile phone subscribers and while 8 billion may seem like a lot compared to the predicted 80 billion IoT devices it's almost nothing and with that being the case can mobile phones still stay relevant? some think that devices such as voice bots will be the end of mobile phones as said here "I'm predicting that, by 2025, voice bots will become so prevalent, so powerful, and so useful in all areas of business and our personal lives that we won't need smartphones anymore"(John Brandon, N/A).

Source: http://stats.areppim.com/archives/insight_mobile.htm

In conclusion based offed the new devices still coming out and the amount of IoT devices predicted by 2025 I predict that by 2025 mobile phone will be similar to home phones today where they will be around only for those who either want them just in case or have them because they don't feel the need to get a new device instead.

References:
(IDC February 15, 2018) IDC: 80 billion Connected Devices in 2025 for generating 180 trillion GB of Data and IoT Opportunities retrieved from: http://www.vebuso.com/2018/02/idc-80-billion-connected-devices-2025-generating-180-trillion-gb-data-iot-opportunities/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/471264/iot-number-of-connected-devices-worldwide/

(Tim Bajarin, April 18, 2017)Will Smartphones Ever Be Obsolete? Retrieved from:
http://time.com/4744303/will-smartphones-ever-be-obsolete/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/274774/forecast-of-mobile-phone-users-worldwide/

(John Brandon, N/A) Why Smartphones Will Become Extinct by 2025 retrieved from: https://www.inc.com/john-brandon/why-smartphones-will-become-extinct-by-2025.html

(Danielle Muoio Mar. 27, 2017)Elon Musk has launched a company that hopes to link your brain to a computer Retrieved from: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-neuralink-connect-brains-computer-neural-lace-2017-3