5 technologies that will make sense in 2015

New technology is a wonderful thing, but waiting to get it into your hands can be maddening. It's all very well when Nikon launches a compact camera or Sony a new version of the PSP, but take it beyond the realm of consumer hardware and that lag time can go on forever.

So, while we're spending time during Future Week looking at things that have barely been thought of and things that never made it, today is the turn of the technologies still waiting for their moment in the sun. Here's our take on five that have arrived today, but will probably only have made the splash they meant to by 2015.

The idea of WiMax has been around for so long now, that it almost feels like a backward concept. Kicking around as a telecommunications standard since 2001,

Nokia Lumia 1020

Pros: 

Outstanding camera; Good battery; Smooth performance

Cons: 

Expensive; Bulky; Windows Phone OS needs work

Verdict: 

Nokia aims to attract users with the 41-megapixel camera and it's great - but the price and lack of features in Windows Phone makes the Lumia 1020 hard to recommend.

Samsung Shape: Your Music Can Follow You Around the House

Picture coming home from your evening work commute with music playing through your headphones. Then, as soon as you walk through your door, the song you're listening begins playing from a speaker in your living room. That's what Samsung wants you to be able to do. Today, the company announced a new multi-room speaker system it's (rather strangely) called Samsung Shape. The idea is to let you listen to your music—from your phone, laptop, or any DLNA-compatible device—tether-free, anywhere you are in your home. 

Nokia Lumia 1080:the flexible smartphone on wrist

Phones in the form factor of a wristwatch in the near future promises to be a very popular segment of the mobile market, many gadget makers are now showing genuine interest to them. However, community Windows Phone studiously ignores this segment, and the reason – a restrictions of mobile platform from Microsoft. It is possible that things will change,when such smartphones interested seriously by Nokia, the largest strategic partner of the software giant. The concept of a futuristic smartphone Nokia Lumia 1080 presented designers 91 Mobiles.

Concept iPhone Pi in a circular design

Very good and perfect device iPhone Apple. This is confirmed by the high demand on the branded mobile phone . But he too ordinary against the present-day smartphones , perhaps it’s time to change the established standards? British designer tried to develop this idea in his concept iPhone Pi. He is confident, that Apple phones will become even more stylish, if the company give up rectangular

WoNoBo brings Google Street View-like walkthroughs to Indian cities, monuments

Jaipur Rajashan

Genesys International Corporation has announced the launch of WoNoBo.com that brings Google Street View-like 360-degree walkthroughs to Indian cities. Users will be able to search, explore and share 'points of interest' across 12 major Indian cities and will soon be expanded to 54 cities.

A single-step solution for personalising your Android

We love customising our Android phones, don’t we all? Launchers play a huge role in this and the Play store is filled with hundreds, or may be thousands of them. There’s just too much choice for the users in this aspect.

Themer too is a launcher, but different. Read on.

Customizing an Android phone is obviously a multiple step process. You have to gather a lot of stuff, like a good wallpaper, a well designed icon pack, widgets and apply all this to your launcher. Everyone will agree that this is a tedious process. Themer tries to fix this.