In 10 years? Maybe more lowering of prices, total 24 hour change-overs for more facilities, and more chain businesses. Maybe another hike in sales tax. Otherwise, not all that different from now, just like 10 years ago wasn`t all that much different from now.
With phones, I really don`t see people switching over to smart phones. I hear nothing but complaints about typing in Japanese on those that are around now (and even more about the pain of it on the iPhone). It seems like people change their phones every year so it`s not really in their interest to jump into smart phones.
And yep, 10 years ago my cheapy prepaid cell phone (while much behind in features compared to today) was not
that much bigger than my current phone, and it had good coverage. (
A silver version of this.)
Even 9 years ago I had a color screen, live weather and news updates, etc. (Don`t feel like digging it out for a pic - but
here is the same model.) The oohs and aahs it got on visits to the US were great fun at the time.