If You Were a Mobile Phone Designer and Developer

ozeebee on 19/04/2016 - 23:13
Last edited 19/04/2016 - 23:14

How and what would be important to your design?

Personally I would have below;
Hardware of Nexus 6P or Galaxy S7 with 5000mah battery
Running IOS
Height and width similar to Moto X Style with depth of iPhone 6S
Camera of Xperia Z5 or S7
Full customisation of material, colour and design similar to Motomaker.

Yes I would choose IOS at this present moment. Android can be good but sometimes tedious to manually change everything one by one. I would like a simple clean design which takes the least amount of effort for setup.

That's my frankenstein, what would yours look like?

Mobile

Comments

  • captobvious on 19/04/2016 - 23:24
    +5

    I prefer the design of the maxwell smart phone. Pure simplicity of design and ease of operation, best of all its wearable

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DonAdams.jpg

    • altomic on 20/04/2016 - 06:40
      +1

      Except when you step in dog poo…

      • captobvious on 20/04/2016 - 10:30

        Will have to design a dog poo resistant polymer coating.

  • neoleo on 20/04/2016 - 00:11
    +2

    For man, I prefer the design of CAT S60 (Caterpillar S60) with 5" or 5.5" screen. (not less than 5")
    http://www.catphones.com/en-gb/phones/s60-smartphone

    I agree with some of the hardware spec of Nexus 6P or Galaxy S7 with 4000 or 5000 mAh battery and mixed with CAT S60 great hardware. But I prefer Android OS + dual sim card slot and external memory card slot. If for example you use Telstra and in certain important time the telstra network cannot be used (fail few times already as I know CMIIW), while at the moment you need to contact important people or other people cannot contact you, that will be horrible. If one network fail, I still can use other network (Vodafone, Optus)

    Will Iphone ever has dual sim card slot ? I doubt it :P
    External memory card slot ? None for iphone, but there is a solution from Sandisk.

    • scrimshaw on 20/04/2016 - 03:54

      That CAT60 looks like the type of phone I would want in a survival situation.

    • StewBalls on 20/04/2016 - 08:20
      +1

      You've just ruined phones for me…I refuse to have any phone that doesn't have FLIR from this day forth!

  • iridiumstem on 20/04/2016 - 01:40

    In terms of design I'd probably say these to be my type of design. Of course some of them are fairly old, so I think there are rooms for improvements in the design (i.e. how thick they are, screen to body ratio, port location etc).

    I actually wouldn't mind something similar to Lumia 1020 for Camera phones (+ Camera Grip case as an accessary).
    Something similar to Galaxy S6 active for a "rugged" phone.
    Something similar to Xperia Arc S or LG Prada 3.0 Phone for a basic phone.

    For Spec:

    5.2 inch FHD 1080p LCD Screen (at current stage at least)
    Snapdragon 820 or Exynos 8890, 4GB RAM, mSD support
    Capacitative + home button, Camera button
    Fingerprint sensor on power button (like Xperia) or on front
    IR blaster, MHL support, USB C with USB 3.1 Gen 2, NFC and MST module.
    Smaller size compared to S7 with similar screen size (I think they could reduce the upper bezel a little)
    Waterproof feature
    Fast Wireless charging + Qualcomm QC 3.0
    LED for notification on back and on front
    3,000 mAh
    Replacable, non-glass battery cover + removable battery (even if it means the battery size has to be reduced)
    Android

    If it is a phablet (5.5 inch+)
    Some form of proper stylus (be it S-pen, Surface pen or Apple pencil, I personally prefer S-pen since it doesn't require battery).

    • ozeebee on 20/04/2016 - 01:50

      Ah yes, you brought up some good points I forgot like fingerprint scanner, IR blaster, waterproofing and LED.

      Surprised to see you find 3000mah enough though. I have the Moto X Style and while it's a great phone overall, the battery life really can get draining after a while. No pun intended.

      • iridiumstem on 20/04/2016 - 01:54

        For a FHD phone with that kind of spec, it'd last a reasonable amount of time by my standard (I think since 2013 when we had mainly FHD phones, we've improved on efficiency as well, which was mostly countered by QHD screens).
        Of course, more is better, but it'd mean the phone would need to be bigger and heavier (actually for a phablet, 3500mAh or more would be reasonable for me).

  • altomic on 20/04/2016 - 06:41
    +1

    Nokia 1100 with 4G

    • ProjectZero on 20/04/2016 - 11:27

      or the nokia 3210…

      • StewBalls on 20/04/2016 - 17:15

        Built.In.Flashlight.

        Drops mic on stage…

        • Nickels n Dimes on 21/04/2016 - 14:03

          Most phones have a built-in flashlight, which uses the LED flash. Perhaps you meant "Fleshlight" ?!?

        • StewBalls on 21/04/2016 - 19:48

          @krzystoff: Not braggin' or nuffin', but that wouldn't work for me…and don't feel that you're any less of a man if your willie fits in a Nokia 1100. :P

  • Diji1 on 20/04/2016 - 11:20

    Get it away from Google.

  • ProjectZero on 20/04/2016 - 11:27

    Dream phone would be

    HTC 10 design spliced with maybe the G5's module
    Latest flag ship hard ware with removeable battery and sd card slot
    iOS or Android, though I am using Android atm so Android is prefered
    Fully customisable like Motomaker
    Not fussed on camera.
    IPS screen, personally don't like amoled.

  • t_c on 20/04/2016 - 12:40

    Tooth and ear canal implant, operate with tongue.

    • scrimshaw on 20/04/2016 - 16:04

      and the top paid mobile gaming app in the Google Play store would be Kissing Simulator 2025

      • Nickels n Dimes on 21/04/2016 - 14:08

        Hmmm… most urbanites spend more time using their phones than they do with their significant other, and VR simsex is a growing industry from recent news, so perhaps Kissing Sim is not far off the mark for future devices.

    • Nickels n Dimes on 21/04/2016 - 14:06

      I wouldn't mind an optical implant to replace the camera in my phone, as long as it had a decent resolution and image stabilisation.

  • [Deactivated] on 20/04/2016 - 13:34

    Android OS
    Nokia 808 camera
    Either:
    - 5inch full HD screen
    Or
    - 3inch HD screen with harware qwerty keyboard.
    4 days battery life
    3g/lte connectivity option for dual 3g/4g sim slot.
    IR blaster
    OTG capable

  • ycon on 14/06/2016 - 10:55

    FM Transmitter

    Xenon flash

    Two of the most under-rated features IMO. My Nokia N79 had both- great piece of equiment

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