Usually whenever someone asks me about the phone industry in two years time, I start laughing. Why not 100 years? This industry moves so fast that nobody actually makes a quite safe six month prediction. Even the famous „phone trends this year“ will probably proof to be wrong.

So why not make some statements for 2019?

Let’s go for it:

1. The phone is no longer, there is just one central communication device (a.k.a. com)
2. The com has absorbed the digital camera, the gps, the netbook, the iPod, the watch, the playstation portable, and so on…
3. The com will be fully voice controlled, no more keyboard needed. For def people there will be a fully visual com. Nevertheless, no keyboard. Would anyone miss it?
4. A com can be assembled from modular parts, depending on your needs.
5. The com is always online and provides you with any kind of messaging.
6. SMS is dead. At least I hope so.
7. Mobile email has been replaced by something new. (I am not saying Google)
8. The internet is no longer boring HTML, but mobile pages for the com.
9. Palm has been bought by Apple, they will publish a mixture of WebOS and MacOS, but way too late.
10. Microsoft stopped the production of Windows Mobile, due to massive decrease of sales as someone issued a Linux that runs on all those machines, is free, faster, and way better.
11. Nokia finally moved its office from Finland to China.
12. There are only four big manufacturers left, but I will not tell you my suggestions.
13. All phones are made in Bangladesh, China became too expensive.
14. At this only applies to the first world, the rest will have to buy crappy stuff that only does five times of what phones do now. How boring.

Read this to me in 2019, we will have a beer together (beer will always be on this planet, at least in Germany) and laugh out lound. Well, if only half of them turn out to be  true, this means a massive shift. Hope so.