Features you want to see on upcoming smartphones?

Zaph

A beer tap. Has to be decent beer though, none of your Bud or Coors Light crap. A small van following me around carrying the keg and cooler would probably come in handy too.

Panthro

Snake

StonyIron

Teleportation services. Sick of driving and paying huge airfares.

allthedoyles

Was checking one of those €5 scratch cards tonight and was just thinking it would be great if I could scan the ticket on my phone to see if its a winner .

Keplar240B

DRADIS

Cylon skinjob detector

Holoband

Colonial transponder.

StonyIron

Ability to interface with alien computer networks, as all laptops have in popular sci-fi.

Paramite Pie

StonyIron wrote: »

Telepathic alarm clock setting! I don't want to have any more weird conversations with Siri!

You don't need Siri to set an alarm.

jon1981

- Built in air bag
- ant+ chip as standard (for me Garmin man)
- a physical button key pad ...oh wait

DarraghF197

Reading through a couple of these and just thinking, first world problems...

jon1981

DarraghF197 wrote: »

Reading through a couple of these and just thinking, first world problems...

s**t, is this a thread for 3rd world problems?


ok replace the ant+ chip with a water well.

DarraghF197

jon1981 wrote: »

s**t, is this a thread for 3rd world problems?


ok replace the ant+ chip with a water well.

Chill man it was just a joke. My friends and I would often laugh and say that if someone mentioned a first world problem. It's all just relativity really.

jester77

jester77 wrote: »

x-ray camera :pac:

You sent off for the "specs" in "viz" didn't you?

You would think a "nonsense text detector" would be easy for smart phones to do. The number of nonsense texts I have sent because the phone in my pocket unlocked - my jeans pushed a few choice points on the screen - and suddenly I sent a message out in the world - is insane

Text messages. Emails. Ingress messages. Even Whatsapp messages. Have all happened in my pocket. I would love just one little app that would say "The message you are about to send relates to no language whatsoever known to man - even in your drunken moments - so me being such a SMART PHONE and all - I am going to veto the instructions I just received and do the SMART thing and NOT send it - if you disagree with this choice please type a word from any language that does not look like it just came out of your fake levis rubbing up against your pants that have the same rim as people with calvin kleins."

Jimoslimos

jester77 wrote: »

x-ray camera :pac:

Quite what interest people have in looking at other people's bones I'll never understand. Unless you're a radiologist or something?!

Filmer Paradise

5 pages in & nobody has mentioned the obvious.:rolleyes:










A Star Trek Hollow Deck. Now that would be something!:D

Riesen_Meal

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

5 pages in & nobody has mentioned the obvious.:rolleyes:










A Star Trek Hollow Deck. Now that would be something!:D

Getting there!

For only 8.99, lol... :P

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.standard3d.holodeck.v1

DareGod

For those of you mentioning Snake, there is actually currently a Snake app. It's pretty representative of the original game too.

I just thought of one - a "drunken messaging" preventer!

StonyIron

Paramite Pie wrote: »

You don't need Siri to set an alarm.

You do when you've lost your hand-eye coordination after a late night!

I guess I would like to see smartphones catch up on the fun games of the 80s

kneemos

[Deleted User] wrote: »

You would think a "nonsense text detector" would be easy for smart phones to do. The number of nonsense texts I have sent because the phone in my pocket unlocked - my jeans pushed a few choice points on the screen - and suddenly I sent a message out in the world - is insane

Text messages. Emails. Ingress messages. Even Whatsapp messages. Have all happened in my pocket. I would love just one little app that would say "The message you are about to send relates to no language whatsoever known to man - even in your drunken moments - so me being such a SMART PHONE and all - I am going to veto the instructions I just received and do the SMART thing and NOT send it - if you disagree with this choice please type a word from any language that does not look like it just came out of your fake levis rubbing up against your pants that have the same rim as people with calvin kleins."

My last phone was a devil for sending pocket messages.
Incredibly it signed itself up to a subscription wrestling website one day. No idea how it managed it,it wasn't even that smart more of a feature phone.

Maybe it was being sarcastic.

areu4real?

Definitely a mini projector. When you want to show something to a group its awkward with 10 looking at a 4" screen. Even a 20" projection on a wall/table. Easy

pickarooney

areu4real? wrote: »

Definitely a mini projector. When you want to show something to a group its awkward with 10 looking at a 4" screen. Even a 20" projection on a wall/table. Easy

This exists. The Samsung Galaxy Beam has one.

kneemos

pickarooney wrote: »

This exists. The Samsung Galaxy Beam has one.

NO





WAY!





shut that door .

Eph1958

A decent noise suppression system wouldn't go amiss.
A decent operating open source operating system would be interesting.

nullzero

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Snake.

Snake?

Snake!!!!!!!!!!

(playing too much MGS)

jonon9

My ideal phone:

5" 1080p 500dpi (thats all anyone needs)
octacore 3ghz cpu
5 gig ram
6000mah battery removable
sd card slot
stock android none of that bloatware ****.
USB type C connector
Duel sim.

Phone companies are well able to put a 6000mah battery into a phone why the heck have they not done this already.

A modular phone, where you can pick and choose what you want on your phone?

kneemos

A phone without a pile of pre loaded crap that nobody wants.

jonon9

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Be nice to get a proper physical keyboard on a phone again

Keep an eye on Blackberry they will be releasing a phone with a qwerty keyboard that will have android on it. That being said BB OS 10 is very nice.

wendell borton

Feck smart phones, what about a pip boy with vats system.

StonyIron

An ability to pause, rewind or fast forward time would be handy.

zeffabelli

An inbuilt breathalyser.

galljga1

Balmed Out wrote: »

Phone itself to be more robust. Id like to be able to use it for basketball etc.

Ridiculous suggestion. A ball is much more suitable.

cerastes

one with a teasmade

A special implement to take stones out of horses hooves.

padd b1975

Night vision camera.

Cienciano

DareGod wrote: »

In contrast to a few years ago, newly-introduced smartphone features have become extremely boring. In technology land, it was exciting when Siri was introduced, or when things like fingerprint reading were introduced. But the introduction of exciting new features seems to have ground to a halt and it's hard to imagine what could possibly change that.

What realistic new features would you like introduced into upcoming smartphones? They must be features that are possible, i.e. features which already exist in other areas of technology, but that haven't yet been incorporated into smartphones. So it can't be things like I WANT A MIND-READING FUNCTION!

No it wasn't

Pat Mustard wrote: »

Dedicated FM radio without having to use a data connection. Like the old days of three years ago.

Don't most phones have this? My last Motorola and current Sony do

StonyIron

md23040 wrote: »

SD memory card slots for iPhones

You'll have to wait for Apple to patent an iCard with rounded corners.

StonyIron

Cienciano wrote: »

No it wasn't


Don't most phones have this? My last Motorola and current Sony do

iPhones never had and increasingly it's being abandoned by some other manufacturers too. Ireland and some other European markets listen to a lot more radio than the Far East and the United States and networks, Apple and Google can't monitise it ... They can however sell you data to download from spotify or subscriptions to Google Play Music, Apple music etc etc and load more services into those...

Sh1tbag OToole

StonyIron wrote: »

You'll have to wait for Apple to patent an iCard with rounded corners.

I can see it happening already. It will be only compatible with 2 generations of iPhone at the most, after which the connector will be changed for no apparent reason.

*It will only be available in one or two sizes
*There will be a premium version, which is just a different colour and cost twice as much
*Some company making aftermarket versions will be sued into the ground
*It will have extra DRM features to stop you using it for copying apps without paying for them again
*There will be a firebelt/thunderhose adaptor for the latest generation Macbook but it will cost something outrageous like $199.999999999999
*It will only work with the latest version of iTunes
*Initially it will only be possible to use it for pictures or music, after much bickering a firmware update will be released months later that will allow you to use it for both

demanufactured

kneemos wrote: »

A dedicated button that turns on the flash or a led light.

Already exists

kneemos

demanufactured wrote: »

Already exists

Not in my world it doesn't.

Menas

kneemos wrote: »

Not in my world it doesn't.

There is an Android app called ClickLight that allows you to turn on the flashlight just by pressing the power button twice- regardless of whether the phone is unlocked or not.
But I suppose that is not the same as a dedicated button.

Pink Lemons

A phone with a built in fleshlight would be nice, females have already had their own version for years thanks to the vibrate function.

Hammer89

Say you're in the pub and you want to have a few, but can't because the smelly ****bag of a car is with you. What do you do? You could either drink, and then collect the car in the morning, which nobody wants. You could just not drink, which nobody wants. Or you could have a few and then drive home, risking your license but, more importantly, your integrity. But what about a phone that lets you drive your car home remotely? You could be with the lads, about to sip the first of many, but before you do you can whip out your phone and just drive it home. I first got the idea when I saw a seemingly unmanned Nissan Micra driving along the dual carraige way, only to eventually discover there was a black driver. But the seed was planted.

One eyed Jack

Hammer89 wrote: »

But the seed was planted.

Q got there before you on this one

hynesie08

Menas wrote: »

There is an Android app called ClickLight that allows you to turn on the flashlight just by pressing the power button twice- regardless of whether the phone is unlocked or not.
But I suppose that is not the same as a dedicated button.

Mind........blown.

kneemos

hynesie08 wrote: »

Mind........blown.

Don't think you're doing it right.

Menas

hynesie08 wrote: »

Mind........blown.

No, never seen an app for that.

Keplar240B

My aesthetics eschew right angles, instead I use octagons. I would like new smart phones to also follow this design by having the phone, windows, menus and buttons etc with angled corners.
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