Portless, and just a small screen. It's going to be a "hub" that's pocketed. It's centrally where you use your eSIM, but your main interface will be a watch that will be twice the size as current apple watch in width, and glasses. Most gestures will be voice and hand cues using AR, but some things will just be needed on the wrist.
What will be odd is that there will be a market for video conference mirrors. They will have the ability to reflect your view into your glasses camera, but will also be the "green screen" for the return feed through the AR. This eliminates the look-away effect without putting a camera in the middle of a screen.
The "phone" itself will also be a reciprocal battery for charging the glasses or watch as needed. We'll all be concerned about "all day battery life" for the glasses, since Samsung will have created their own copy, but hidden the battery in a cabled "shirt pocket" battery. Apple will only deal with putting battery on the glass frame, but will allow Mophie and others to connect to a small nodule at the base of the glasses to attach a third party battery, since this is also the charge point of the glasses.
The concept of "folded" phones will evaporate, since the engineering goal is to keep the base in your pocket or bag all day. But there's still a need for a screen once in a while, so the phone itself will still have a roughly 3200x2000 touch screen that will not be much different from today; just OLED.
What will be interesting is how much the screen and glasses interact… such as with the "mirror" in conference calls. It will likely serve as the "small screen" in those cases.
And for those who think it'll be port-free, it'll go beyond that. It will be sealed, and fully waterproof/scratch resistant. It will actually wake-by-shake, and may even have some capacity for physical charging. Solar won't be practical to charge, but it may well have a panel "for emergencies". It will do a Qi 2.0 charge under the screen, but there will be the ability to charge the watch and eyewear with the same watch charger you own today.
This, of course, is all predicated on the idea we're all not dead from a pandemic.
What will be odd is that there will be a market for video conference mirrors. They will have the ability to reflect your view into your glasses camera, but will also be the "green screen" for the return feed through the AR. This eliminates the look-away effect without putting a camera in the middle of a screen.
The "phone" itself will also be a reciprocal battery for charging the glasses or watch as needed. We'll all be concerned about "all day battery life" for the glasses, since Samsung will have created their own copy, but hidden the battery in a cabled "shirt pocket" battery. Apple will only deal with putting battery on the glass frame, but will allow Mophie and others to connect to a small nodule at the base of the glasses to attach a third party battery, since this is also the charge point of the glasses.
The concept of "folded" phones will evaporate, since the engineering goal is to keep the base in your pocket or bag all day. But there's still a need for a screen once in a while, so the phone itself will still have a roughly 3200x2000 touch screen that will not be much different from today; just OLED.
What will be interesting is how much the screen and glasses interact… such as with the "mirror" in conference calls. It will likely serve as the "small screen" in those cases.
And for those who think it'll be port-free, it'll go beyond that. It will be sealed, and fully waterproof/scratch resistant. It will actually wake-by-shake, and may even have some capacity for physical charging. Solar won't be practical to charge, but it may well have a panel "for emergencies". It will do a Qi 2.0 charge under the screen, but there will be the ability to charge the watch and eyewear with the same watch charger you own today.
This, of course, is all predicated on the idea we're all not dead from a pandemic.
