Because of their quality and rarity, the early modernists' works are appreciating steadily: In 1996, for instance, a painting by Anak Agung Gede Sobrat fetched 11 times the estimate at Christie's auction in Amsterdam.
Now the Note 2 is doing the same and many of the early detractors have been steadily changing their tune (Disclosure: TBG works with Samsung but did not work on this campaign).
Mobiles will continue to get steadily better, with higher resolution touch-screens, speech recognition that really works and much greater memory and storage capabilities.