Your future phone will do the following, some of these features are available now, but your future phone is definitely going to perform all these features. What a gadget!

Wireless Charging

Tired of negotiating a tangle of wires to charge your cell? Boulder, Colo.-based Wildcharge makes a flat panel built to charge phones resting on its surface. Currently, phones need a special adapter to connect the plate’s charge with their battery, but Wildcharge hopes to integrate its technology directly into cellphones in the coming year. Another company, Pittsburgh-based Powercast, is working on an even more impressive feature: Using the small amount of energy transmitted in radio waves, it hopes to charge a phone placed near its devices without even making contact.

Alternative Energy

Another way to take the pain out of charging your phone: tapping into natural energy sources to extend the power of your handset. Phone makers including Motorola and Nokia are researching ways to use solar power, fuel cells and kinetic energy. Batteries aren’t going away anytime soon, says Motorola’s Jerry Hallmark. But alternative energy is a practical way to provide an “instant refuel” to your phone through a built-in application or a plug-in accessory.

4G Networks

To power all these advanced features, phones will rely on speedy 4G networks, which will roll out across the world over the next few years. Whether based on technology called WiMax or LTE, these 4G networks will enable faster Web browsing, more reliable streaming video and, possibly, lower connection costs for consumers.

Touch-Free Motion Sensing

For your phone to be a “magic wand,” it needs to be able to detect motion. A handful of current phones from the iPhone to Sony Ericsson and Nokia models already do this. So do phones powered by “shake, rock and roll” technology from a California firm called GestureTek. In the future, motion sensing won’t even require you to touch your phone. Simply make the motions in the air; your phone’s camera will read your commands. The best part? No fingerprints to wipe off later.

Source: Forbes.com