Most notably, "fast charging", camera resolution, and mid-range fifth-generation phones
5 factors that will determine the features of the smart phone market in 2021
"Fast charging" .. A technology that allows charging the phone within 20 minutes.
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Officials of companies supplying and trading smartphones revealed, to Emirates Today, five basic factors that define the features of the smart phone market during the year 2021, including: updates of fast charging technology, which allows the ability to charge phones within only 20 minutes, and develop the power of the phone battery, In addition to the introduction of mid-range phones that support the fifth generation, camera capabilities and technologies, with a tendency to introduce phones with flexible folding screens more widely.
Fast shipping
In detail, Ashraf Fawakherji, general manager of the Tusk Technology Company, which specializes in "Xiaomi" phones and products, said that the most important factors that will define the features of smart phone markets during 2021 include raising the technology of fast charging of phones.
He added that these technologies witnessed several initiatives from companies during the year 2020, most notably the introduction of a 33-watt technology that allows the phone to be fully charged within a period ranging between 60 and 70 minutes, and then limited companies at the end of the year proposed the possibility of support with 60-watt fast charging technology, which Allows a full charge between 40 and 50 minutes.
He mentioned that the fast charging technology, which was tested at the end of 2020, included a capacity of 160 watts, which is expected to be launched extensively during the current year, pointing out that through this technology, the phone can be charged within 20 minutes, which is an important change in the sector.
Battery and camera
Fawakherji stated that the second factor is related to the development of the phone's battery strength, as the largest battery capacity available during the year 2020 was 5000 milliamps, while companies are expected to launch batteries during the current year with a power ranging between 6000 and 7000 milliamps, which in turn changes the features of the sector, products and length The period of its use.
He pointed to another factor that is the camera phones, as it is expected that companies will expand by offering cameras with a resolution of more than 100 megapixels, with the increase in the number and capabilities of the camera, to approach the level of the professional camera in some of them.
Fawakherji pointed to an expected factor related to the introduction of phones with flexible foldable screens more expansion and lower prices.
Fifth generation
In turn, the director of strategy and planning at the «OPPO Middle East Company» for technical products and smart phone technology, Fadi Abu Shamat, referred to the fifth generation technology, as it is expected that companies will expand in offering phones of the middle and lower middle class with technologies that support the fifth generation.
He pointed to market expectations that the region will host more than 45 million fifth-generation communications users by 2025, as the fifth generation networks represent a real qualitative leap in the field of internet-connected devices.
Abu Shamat also pointed to new influencing factors represented in the development of fast charging technologies, and the increase in competitiveness in the professional capabilities of the cameras integrated into smartphones.
The middle class
In the same context, Mona Mustafa, the public relations manager at Realme for phones in the Gulf Cooperation Council region, agreed that one of the most important factors that will determine the features of smartphones during 2021 is the expansion of the introduction of the fifth generation phones of the middle economic category, which Its value is approximately 1000 dirhams, in addition to the increase in fast charging capabilities at unprecedented levels, with the increase in the technical capabilities of the cameras integrated into the phones, both in terms of power or in terms of the number of cameras, and their uses.
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