7x this will be possible with mobile phones in the future

We swipe and shop and message and order everything on that thing. Calling? No way, you don't buy it for that anymore.

Can you still remember the times of that good old Nokia 3310? I still remember getting a little fridge with an antenna for my birthday and I couldn't contain my technical happiness. I showed the thing to my dad. ‘Look dad, you click here on that camera logo, and then... You can take a PHOTO!’ We could hardly believe it. What a memorable moment: taking photos with your mobile. He thought it was fantastic. But the times of mobile phones changed faster than we thought. Now we do nothing else and have sent a photo of a white beach to the folks back home from the beach in Bali within four seconds. But back then it was quite different. Back then it was still special. Very grainy and full of pixels, but yes, you could really take a snapshot. And also play Snake. Meanwhile, my dad has long had an iPhone and we mainly send each other good jokes from Heineken. Or from Fokke and Sukke.

Your first phone is one to never forget. Do you remember the hype of the flip phone? How immensely cool it was to have one. I had a red Samsung and yes, I wanted it mainly because it was red and because you could hang up so nicely by closing the flip. I was incredibly happy with it for years. Now we check our phones an average of about 200 times a day. Back then, you looked at it once a day to see how many ‘envelopes‘ you had on your screen. New messages, that is. So cute.

Ah yes, everything changes and especially technology changes by the hour. That iPhone X of now, it recognizes your voice, face, fingerprint and can dig up your entire past, home address, future plans and potential baby names and vacation destinations for 2021 via Siri, if you want, I think. And this is what phones will have in the future, mark my words:

• They are of course becoming more and more like robots. That your phone suddenly arranges for your house to be cleaned or something. Or that the dog gets walked. Or that your glass of wine is refilled.
• Phones won't be able to make calls anymore. Nobody does that anymore. You say something to your screen and the other person just receives it via a message or a ping. Yes, can that ping come back?
• You can unfold it into a laptop. Or into an iPad. Saves you a lot of carrying.
• It also holds your keys. And your bank cards. And your lip gloss. You don't have to take those with you anymore.
• Your photos are automatically edited. Click, photo taken and hop, three seconds later you're slim, with a touch of makeup and sun-kissed.
• It can never break – cracked screens are a thing of the past. And the battery lasts a month. No joke.
• Snake 3.0 is coming back.