2010 Technology Predictions [+rep for playing!]

[RyanDOT]

• Porn websites ratings go up.

[Recursion]

• Microsoft will have an anti-trust investigation with the EU... again
• Then intel will
• Then microsoft
• Then opera and amd go bust
• Anti-trust investigations end forever

Win - win situation right there, I like your way of thinking mr!

[Markeh]

I'd like to add a few.
Spotify will reopen registrations, and will become even more popular

More and more airlines (I know some already are) will supply planes fitted with some form of Wi-Fi or seatback browser in Business AND Economy. (This excludes Ryanair (who will soon charge extra for access up the stairs to the plane probably), Easyjet and other budget airlines)

Sony Ericsson might produce a phone that has Wi-Fi that works when the user wants it to, and an antenna that will try and find a signal again after you lose it. (please tell me if any Sony Ericsson phone actually does this. My W715 doesn't)

The speed of mobile internet will increase quite dramatically. Speeds of 5mb would not be unreasonable.

Flat-screen TV's will get even thinner, and the SCART socket will start to die out completely with the advent of HDMI upscaling DVD players, Blu-Ray, and Sky+HD/V+HD/Freeview HD/Freesat HD/Whatever comes along next.

There will be a new incarnation of the Apple TV, possibly with iPhone-esque apps, and its own App Store. The HDD size will go up to 250/320/500Gb/1Tb, and there may be an option for a Blu-Ray drive. It will be controlled by a standard remote, with an optional keyboard and Magic Mouse available.

[Chippiewill]

The speed of mobile internet will increase quite dramatically. Speeds of 5mb would not be unreasonable.

Actually they would, 5mbps is the theoretical maximum for 3g I think.

[Jordy]

Actually they would, 5mbps is the theoretical maximum for 3g I think.

True but 3G isn't the best anymore, most new phones use HSPDA (3.5G) these days which has a theoretical maximum of 15mb usually, although it's most like 3mb.

Talking of mobile networks though, I imagine 4G will be implemented in London in the first or second quarter of the year and most major cities in the UK will have some coverage of it by the end of the year.

More and more airlines (I know some already are) will supply planes fitted with some form of Wi-Fi or seatback browser in Business AND Economy. (This excludes Ryanair (who will soon charge extra for access up the stairs to the plane probably), Easyjet and other budget airlines

Wi-fi in the UK won't happen, it works in the US because all their internal flights are over land. They simply have mobile masts on the ground, but instead of pointing the signal to the ground, they point it to the sky. There's very few internal flights within the UK, and the majority of flights include flying across the channel, atlantic, north sea or irish sea so there's no chance of it happening in the UK seeing as you can't put masts in the middle of the sea. And for it to happen over Europe, countries would have to work together to build the network and share the costs and I can't see that happening either, with the US it's all in one country so much easier to organise. Until someone successfully gets satellite internet working on planes then there's no hope for Wi-fi in Europe.

However, in the next year or two I do expect Wi-fi to become the standard on all passenger trains and National Express have been trialling Wi-fi on some of their coach routes, I suspect this will be implemented on more Coaches throughout the year too.

[Coheed&Cambria]

• Virgin media announce prices for 200mb packages, for a possible release early 2011.
• Virgin media announce 3D channels and packages.
• Gears 3 gets announced.
• Avatar will ultimately fail on DVD.
• More 3D films/older films get the 3D treatment.
• OLED more popular.

[Recursion]

I'd like to add a few.
Spotify will reopen registrations, and will become even more popular

More and more airlines (I know some already are) will supply planes fitted with some form of Wi-Fi or seatback browser in Business AND Economy. (This excludes Ryanair (who will soon charge extra for access up the stairs to the plane probably), Easyjet and other budget airlines)

Sony Ericsson might produce a phone that has Wi-Fi that works when the user wants it to, and an antenna that will try and find a signal again after you lose it. (please tell me if any Sony Ericsson phone actually does this. My W715 doesn't)

The speed of mobile internet will increase quite dramatically. Speeds of 5mb would not be unreasonable.

Flat-screen TV's will get even thinner, and the SCART socket will start to die out completely with the advent of HDMI upscaling DVD players, Blu-Ray, and Sky+HD/V+HD/Freeview HD/Freesat HD/Whatever comes along next.

There will be a new incarnation of the Apple TV, possibly with iPhone-esque apps, and its own App Store. The HDD size will go up to 250/320/500Gb/1Tb, and there may be an option for a Blu-Ray drive. It will be controlled by a standard remote, with an optional keyboard and Magic Mouse available.

That's actually a bug in a lot of phones, the iPhone, HTC phones, Nokia phones etc, don't ask me why but it is lol

Also at guy above, 200mbp/s isn't happening in the UK for consumers anytime soon, ill tell ya that LOL

[Agnostic Bear]

I'm gonna make exactly 1 (one) prediction:

ATI/AMD announce both the 5890 and the 6000 series which will be fabulous and have a new architecture and be super powerful! (Obviously 5890 in the early year, 6000 to the end of the year)

SEND NVIDIA AND IT'S PROPRIETARY CRAP INTO THE SEA, long live AMD and it's adoption of open standards!

[Stephen!]

The 5890 has already been announced last month.

[Chippiewill]

• Skynet becomes self-aware at 12:43am June 26th 2010