Technological companies run to make their products smaller – and much, much thinner | Money news Aitrend

Some of the main technological companies in the world are betting very well on very small innovations.

Last week, Samsung released its Galaxy Z Fold 7 which – when it is open – has only 4.2 mm thick, one of the thinnest folding phones to have reached the market.

And Honor, a spin -off from the Chinese smartphones company Huawei, will soon send its last foldable – the thinnest in the world. Its new Honor Magic V5 model is only 8.8 mm thick when folded, and only 4.1 mm when open.

Apple should also publish a foldable in the second half of next year, according to a note from JPMorgan analysts published this week.

Race to Miniaturize technology accelerates, the ultimate price being the next evolution of consumer devices.

Whether it is portable devices, such as intelligent glasses, watches, rings or foldables – there is a huge market potential for any manufacturer that can make its products small enough.

Although it is thinner than its predecessor, Honor claims that his Magical V5 also offers significant improvements to the life of the battery, the power of treatment and the capacities of the camera.

Hope Cao, a product expert at Honor, told Sky News that progress was “due in large part to our silicon carbon battery technology”. These batteries are a new generation breakthrough which offers a higher energy density compared to traditional lithium-ion batteries and becomes more common in general public devices.

Honor also told Sky News that he had used his own IA Model “to test with precision and find the optimal design, which was both the thinnest and the most durable.”

However, the research and development of miniaturization go far beyond folding phones.

A company that was at the forefront of the development of augmented reality glasses (AR), XREAL, was one of the first to publish a viable pair in the consumer market.

Xreal Ralph Jodice told Sky News “one of our biggest engineering challenges is to reduce the powerful augmented reality technology in a factor of shape that looks like and feels like daily sunglasses”.

XREAL specifications can display images on lenses as something from a science fiction film-allowing the carrier to connect most USB-C compatible devices such as phones, laptops and portable consoles to a screen the size of an IMAX wherever they go.

Metaverse Society experts suggest that the prices of these portable devices could be lowered by moving the computer’s computer by headphones to a mobile phone or computer, whose battery and processor would feed the glasses via a cable.

However, despite the intimidating challenge, companies double research and leaps in the region.

The Meta social media giant is also in the running for domination on the miniature market.

Meta Ray -Ban sunglasses (to which they recently added an Oakley range) cannot project images on lenses like Xreal’s pair – they can rather capture photos, images and sound. When connected to a smartphone, they can even use the 5G connection of your phone to ask Meta’s Ai what you look at, and ask how to save a particular type of interior board for example.

Gareth Sutcliffe, a tech and media analyst at Enders Analysis, told Sky News Wearables “is a green opportunity in the field for Meta and Google” to capture a “hundreds of millions of users if these devices are sold at rates similar to mobile phones”.

Li-Chen Miller, Vice-President of Meta products and laptops, recently said: “You would find it difficult to find a more interesting engineering problem in the company than the one at the intersection of these two dynamics, by building glasses (with technology on board) that people are comfortable carrying their faces for long periods of time … and eager to wear them around friends, family and others.”

Mr. Sutcliffe underlines that “Meta’s R&D expenses for portable devices seem extraordinary in the context of limited sales now, but if the category will explode in popularity, it will be considered an excellent strategic bet.”

The long-term objective of the Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is to combine the capacities of Xreal and Ray-Bans in a pair of fully functional smart glasses, capable of capturing content, as well as the display of graphics on the screen.

However, despite the recently presentation of a prototype model, the company concerned that it was still far from ready for the consumer market.

This race is a marathon and not a sprint – or as Sutcliffe tells Sky News “a decade of a decade” – but 17 years after the release of the first iPhone, people are starting to wonder what will replace it – and it may well be a pair of glasses.