Blue screen of death, lost connection, battery drain... are problems that have been familiar to mobile device users for the past 20 years but have not been improved.
According to XDR, technological advances have changed human life, but there are still limitations that appeared two decades ago that have not been overcome by the developer. There are objective errors but there are also problems that are intentionally created.
Battery life
While smartphones and other electronic devices are constantly evolving, battery technology has hardly improved significantly in the past few decades. In the early days, batteries on phones and laptops were not a big problem, like with "brick" phones from Nokia and Motorola with week-long batteries.
Over time, more and more features are integrated, devices get thinner, and screens get larger, requiring more power, but battery technology cannot keep up with the pace of development of the entire industry. Users have to charge it every day and the battery often wears out after a few years.
What mobile manufacturers are doing is optimizing performance to extend battery life. However, the root of the problem is which technology will help the battery last a whole week. Some solutions have been announced but still stop behind the laboratory door.
"Shark bites cable"
Internet has been covered everywhere, from wifi to high-speed 5G. However, Internet connections are still heavily dependent on fragile undersea fiber optic cables. Underground cables, known as the "world's information superhighway", are responsible for transmitting more than 90% of Internet traffic.
TeleGeography statistics show that on average each year there are more than 100 broken underground cables. This means that on average every three days, there is a cable break somewhere in the world, causing the "shark bite" anecdote to spread. The trouble is that even though technology has advanced, the process of repairing underground cables is still extremely difficult.
In addition, not every place has a network connection. There are still many places that are "low-lying areas" of the Internet because it is too expensive to pull cables there. Satellite Internet can solve the problem, but the cost of using this technology is a big challenge for users in remote areas.
Same call but can't connect
Two people calling each other at the same time and both parties saying the phone is busy is so familiar that it is taken for granted. However, experts say that this is a big gap that technology has not been able to solve. If one person is trying to call the other and vice versa, why can't that call always connect?
The probability that a person sees an incoming call but can't hear it in time and calls back, while the other end says the phone is busy because that person is also trying to contact them is not rare. However, network operators have not yet found a suitable solution for this old problem.
Device overheating
Manufacturers try to cram more and more features and technology into a narrow design, making them susceptible to heat overload. This is a big challenge that users from smartphones, tablets to high-end PC models can hardly avoid. As a result, the device often hangs, which is more dangerous and can cause a fire or explosion.
"Blue Screen of Death"
Windows users are no stranger to the "blue screen of death" interface whenever the device has hardware and memory errors. By Windows 10, this situation has not been fixed, it has simply been renamed "black screen of death" (Black Screen of Death - BSOD), which means the background color is just different. In the Windows 11 generation, Microsoft changed it to green again. Meaning, the error has been persistent since Windows 3 and was just changed to look different.
Difficult to repair
A paradox is that the more technology develops, the shorter the lifespan of modern equipment becomes and the ability to repair becomes increasingly difficult. There are almost no products that "still run well after 10 years". There are both objective and subjective reasons related to this. First, more advanced processors make repairs more complicated. But there is also the fact that manufacturers are making device repair prices too high. Warranty takes a lot of time and must meet many complex standards, making many people think about buying new rather than having damaged hardware repaired.
The cables
When needing to borrow a cable to charge the battery or connect to transfer data, users will have to ask each other what port the device uses such as USB, microUSB, USB-C, Lightning... USB-C is gradually becoming a common standard for transmission. power, data, display and audio connectivity. However, the number of different USB-C standards is also creating a lot of trouble for users. Even though you can charge your phone or laptop with any USB-C cable, users still cannot get the standard speed because it depends on the rating, length and quality of the cable.