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Strategic Intelligence: The Future of Personal Devices

Publisher GlobalData
Published Jan 20, 2026
Length 63 Pages
SKU # GBDT20831024

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Strategic Intelligence: The Future of Personal Devices

Summary

The personal tech landscape is poised for a paradigm shift. Stagnating smartphone upgrade cycles, inflationary pressures, and plateauing hardware innovation will open the door for disruptive technologies and new business models.

Key Highlights
  • Investments in low-power AI chips, sensors, adaptive displays, natural interfaces, and edge computing are accelerating product innovation. These technologies enable the delivery of smarter, faster, and more energy-efficient devices.
  • Augmented reality (AR) is moving out of the novelty phase, with sleek smart glasses and practical applications poised to drive mainstream adoption. Design now matters as much as functionality, with aesthetics and comfort emerging as key differentiators.
  • Investors must focus on companies driving the next wave of hardware and digital health breakthroughs, especially in AI chips, non-invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), and AR. These will offer the strongest potential for lucrative returns.
Scope
  • This report analyzes the evolution of personal devices, with a specific focus on smartphones, smartwatches, hearables, and augmented and virtual reality hardware.
  • It highlights six enabling technologies for future personal devices, including ambient intelligence, contextual sensing, natural interfaces, ubiquitous connectivity, aadaptive displays, aand edge silicon.
  • The report takes a 20-year view of personal devie evolution, identifying four phases: the hybrid era, the immersive era, the phsiological era, and the post-screen era.
Reasons to Buy
  • As personal tech moves beyond smartphones, AI, health, utility, and trust will define future leaders’ strategies.
  • Wearables, enhanced with AI and health monitoring, will transform personal devices into context-aware, proactive companions that integrate into users’ routines. This will fuel user engagement and offer new sources of value.
  • Tech leaders must prioritize the development of user-centric AI and proactive device capabilities that anticipate needs and deliver personalized experiences. Ethical frameworks should guide every phase of innovation.

Table of Contents

63 Pages
Executive Summary
Emerging Technologies
Current Landscape
Device Trends
The Future
Glossary
Further Reading
Report Authors
Thematic Research Methodology

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