Just curious, what specifically were you hoping for - from a product that is 17-years old?
- 90W fast wired charging, 80W wireless charging - many android phone have it
- reverse charging - so that in emergency when you forgot to charge airpods and you already outside you could charge a little bit enough for a run - again some androids have it
- stylus support - still would be nice to get apple pencil for some signatures etc
- fingerprint reader either under display or on side button like on ipad air - sometimes when phone is sitting on the table it's easier to unlock with finger than pick it up and point at your face then put it back (especially annoying for iOS devs)
- irda led for controlling air con in hotel - they have already IR blaster on front and maybe even on lidar that they could potentially hack it similar like they hacked screen for flash.
- temperature sensor and humidity sensor
- IR temperature sensor for checking your body temperature or stuff you baking in the oven
- tiny thermal camera sensor for inspecting leaks in house for the winter
- microsd support (yes can dream can I?)
- any improvements for lidar quality or truedepth
- another programmable button on the left side for lefties
- 250GB storage by default
- 12GB RAM
- bluetooth 5.4
- thread protocol support like HomePod
When you first connect, the power capabilities are negotiated and usually the more powerful device takes on the "source" role while the other gets to be the "sink".
This can be dynamically controlled and switched back and forth so some devices have UI to select what to do.
> tiny thermal camera sensor for inspecting leaks in house for the winter
So just a thermometer gun? It costs like $20-30 on amazon and I've never needed one other than in my home / kitchen. Why in the world do you want a phone for this haha.
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It would be nice to have constant monitoring against a baseline as well, to alert people when a fever might be breaking out.
I think it'd be an easier pitch in the watch though as that's where they are already shoving most of the health sensors (and have wrist temperature monitoring already).
My point here is I'm not saying it can't ever be something anyone would want because of that rather something selling in another device on Amazon has no weight one way or the other on whether it'd be a good thing to add to a phone.
Looks like they are super-uber risk-averse and there is 0% new ideas with these products.
Yes, this is the first thing I look for in a smartphone. Maybe next year, Apple?
Note: I don't disagree with what you're saying. But Apple also creates multiple models for different users desires, and it sounds like you're most closely aligned to the iPhone SE target market (not the iPhone base or Pro).
And what is worse about this se line is that I know it is temporary. They won't be building them out of new old stock iphone 8 parts forever. That will run dry like the old iphone 5 supply lines the se1 used did, which forced its obsolescence. Eventually I will be shunted into these newer, heavier, wobbly bottomed iphones, due to forced obsolescence in either the apps I use or the actual carrier network protocols.
-Why are iPads and iPhones treated so differently? I want to use a pen on the phone and make a phone call on the tablet.
-Double screen, not foldable, but two screens like an open book. I could see a lot of useful applications like showing lists on one screen, details on the other, or a good ereader. In landscape, have a writing app on top and a touch keyboard on the bottom screen.
-Slide the phone into a laptop-like shell and run desktop apps with MacOS. It's the same processor the macs have, no?
-Likewise, attach to a monitor, keyboard and mouse and run desktop apps.
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imagine at work projecting from iphone work slides or whiteboards at work or videos/games indoor at home on a white wall etc (apple loves accessories, and the potential for accessories on this would be huge as well)