What Are The Mp3 Players Of The Future Going To Be Like?

Our gadgets are getting smarter, smaller and sexier, and that trend is only going to continue. Take the iPod for instance, that has shrunk and shrunk over the years until now it is tiny compared to the first generation model, yet it can hold many times more data and has a whole host of new features like games and video playback that the original one did not.

In the future though I think all of our gadgets are going to start to get integrated so we don’t need to carry round so much. Like mobile phones right now can actually do a lot of what the iPod offers, as well as being able to do things they can’t like let you surf the internet, so why do we need a separate device to listen to music now? One thing that will happen though is these devices will continue to get thinner, I’m not too sure about smaller as you need the screen on a smart phone to be big if you want to browse the internet or play games, but their weight and thickness can certainly be changed.

Another area that we will see improvements in is how much you can customize your phone. People want their phone to stand out from the crowd, but at the moment the only way to do that is to buy a different case, hopefully soon we will be able to customize the exterior of the phone without buying anything else. Something I think would be really cool is if they found a way to wrap the phone in a second screen which can display whatever you want. That way your phone can have any design you want on it, or be any color you want, and change at the press of a button. With that kind of technology it would then be easy to match your phone to your outfit and if you have other brightly colored gadgets on you like pink headphones (visit PinkHeadphones.org for a great selection) then they can match them too.

Will they ever replace our desktop computers though? I am pretty sure that we will never get to the point where a phone becomes our main computer of the house, they are just too clumsy to use when you are at home, they are fine when you are travelling but not when you are home and could use a keyboard. Also they will never be as powerful as a larger desktop computer so gamers etc would never make the switch. Something that could start to become commonplace in people’s homes though is a tablet computer. They are powerful and easy to use, with a much bigger screen to help you when you are browsing the web. At the moment though you need both a computer and a tablet so they can sync with each other, or at least you do with the iPad, hopefully soon they will dispense with that as it seems a shame to force people to have both.

There are definitely a lot of exciting developments about the corner, one of the most anticipated things for mobile phones is the release of the new 4G networks. Suddenly you’ll be getting internet as fast on your phone as your broadband at home which will make video so much more accessible on your phone, then you can stream movies while you are waiting at the airport so you’ll never be bored waiting around again!