As somebody else pointed out... things that are smaller aren't going to replcae phones. We've tried it a dozen times with clamshell phones, miniature phones, smart watches, smart glasses.

The very point of the screen is something we want, so we can play games and have some kind of tactile relationship with a device that holds everything dear to us (photos, videos to name an obvious pair).

You can imagine a hyper futuristic situation where you have contact lenses that display photos and videos in front of you, with some wireless conection to a pin on your shirt or something but it just doesn't hit the right balance.

It's like how people on Kickstarter constantly try and make scammy campaigns to improve things that are essentially as good as they can get: batteries that charge in 10 seconds and last 5 years, solar panels that are 90% efficient, roads that use recycled material.

It's all inferior to what we actually have, people are just trying to appeal to the idea of a utopian breakthrough.

I can't see these phones being replaced as they are - that's why every single brand across all price ranges look identical, because nothing beats it.

Futuristic fiction writers always imagine really dumb replacements: Holograms, transparent, glassy phones with projections popping up off the screen. None of it will come to fruition outside of a brief gimmicky moment like the recent folding phone gimmick.

Some things just aren't as good as they're told to be. Like Flying cars. Who wants them? Horrible idea lol