Posted by : Jason in (Tech)
The Ultimate Cell Phone 2
Revision of my thoughts on the perfect cell phone:
- Use open standards wherever possible. I don’t want any device’s life limited by it’s drivers or software.
- Connections: USB, Bluetooth, Wifi
- Charge battery via USB or a traditional charger
- Act like a thumb drive
- USB Mass Storage. Show up just like a flash thumb drive when the phone is connected to a computer.
- Ringtones (mp3, ogg, midi, wav), Address books (xml format?), Calendars(ical), all show up as files in standard formats. Sorted into their own directory (/Ringtones, /Addresses, /Calendars, etc.).
- Extra space can store arbitrary files. If the phone doesn’t understand the file, the phone ignores it.
- Every alert / noise the phone makes should be customizable.
- Caller groups
- Calendar
- Addressbook
- Recieve email /SMS (with alert)
- Keypad lock
- Quickly to silent mode
- Record voice memo
- Record conversation
- Don’t charge me extra for each feature.
- Sending pictures or text messages aren’t seperate services, count off of my regular minutes. No extra charge.
- Voice mail should be transparent. User should not be able to tell the difference from an answering machine.
- Let me download my voice mail messages to my computer, in a standard format.
- No long distance charges. (Within US at least)
- No roaming charges.