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Problems of smartphone evolution seen from "BALMUDA PHONE"

Markets that have changed significantly in over a dozen years

This year (2022), au has ended the 3G service on March 31, and recently the 3G era terminal has become a hot topic and 3G -related comments are increasing.I have no intention of saying "It was good in the past", but the terminals of the 3G era had many unique terminals, and I was able to see the commitment and ingenuity of each company in various parts.

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However, of course, the leading role in the last ten years is a smartphone, and as mentioned in the previous "Surface Duo 2" article, its shape is a slate (plate -shaped) type body that occupies most of the front.It is concentrated.It is also true that the difference in design is almost impossible to distinguish the model from the front from the front.

However, the iPhone has a thick frame on the top and bottom of the display, and the upper part has a large notch (notch), so you can immediately tell that it is not an Android smartphone, but it is said that it has a notch.It seems difficult to distinguish the iPhone 11/12/13 just by looking from the front.Last year, Apple's founder Steve Wozniak tweeted, "I got a new iPhone, but I really don't know the difference."

In addition to design, it has changed a lot in the last decade.It is the number of terminal manufacturers.Last November, au revived G'zone, one of the brands that symbolized the mobile phone era for the first time in over a dozen years, and launched the G'zone Type-XX.Needless to say, Casio Computer has already withdrawn from the mobile phone market through Casio Hitachi and NEC Casio, but this model is designed by successive model Casio design teams, and in the TORQUE series.It is a terminal sent to the world by manufacturing by Kyocera, who inherited the toughness of Toughness.

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  • In the mobile phone era, more than 10 companies, such as Panasonic and Mitsubishi Electric, were developed to each mobile phone company, as well as Casio computers, NECs, and Hitachi.However, domestic manufacturers are now limited to several companies, such as Sharp, Sony, Kyocera, and FCNT (Fujitsu).Of course, this is a result based on the transition to smartphones and market principles, so it is inevitable, but the decrease in the number of manufacturers supplying the terminal has lost new ideas on smartphones, and I can not feel any novelty.There is also a side.