Lately I found myself not being able to decide what my next phone should be. I owned many Samsung phones before and I liked Notes the best mostly for their big screens. I owned also some LG, Iphone, HTC that let me both good and bad impressions. I informed myself about Google phones, Gionee, Xiaomi, ZTE to see what others have to offer. But I couldn't find the perfect phone. Samsung launched recently the Note 8 but they changed the screen proportion and now is no longer offering enough width. Also the edge screen left me a bad impression since I had my Galaxy S6 edge plus. While holding the phone I was touching the edge screen and that interfered with my commands on the main screen. The edge screen is almost useless and is increasing the risk of cracking phone's screen even if you wear a phone case. Note 8 has a bigger screen but a smaller battery than the S8 plus and we all know bigger screens needs more power to lit all the pixels. I think these are enough reasons to move away from Note 8 How should a perfect phone look like? I will take some time in this article to put some ideas on"paper" and to present also the pros and cons on each of these. You can comment at the bottom of this article to validate or invalidate my ideas. I would be glad to see that some of these ideas were taken into consideration by any mobile phone manufacturer. Dimensions It seems there is a misconception that the phones should be very slim. The truth is that the most appreciated phones were the ones that offered a good grip, drop protection and good battery. Remember the Iphone 4S? It was 9.3mm thick and it felt nice in your hand. Why producing a slim phone when user will purchase a fat case for grip, for protection or for extra battery? A manufacturer can better optimize the size and weight of the overall phone so we can get smaller and lighter phones that offers a good battery life and protection than we can expect from adding a case.
The screen. A perfect phone will actually have 2 screens. One smaller always on display to handle the calls and music, plus a bigger screen to handle navigation, video playback, gaming, internet browsing, email and others. Yotaphone has a nice implementation of the always-on screen. Samsung and LG are both working on foldable displays that could make a phone fit nicely in your pocket but still offer you a bugger screen when needed. But even without dual screen the phone should at least have at least 80% screen-to-body ratio or else the phone is wasting space. The pixel density should be min 300 ppi but no more that 400 ppi to save energy. I like that LG phones comes with screen protector film and back film from factory, offering users additional protection. The battery Phone manufacturer's goal should be to offer phones that will last one week in normal use not one day or less as it happens today. Gionee launched a phone with 7000 mAh total battery, double than most flagship phones battery these days. To make the charging process faster, they integrated 2 parallel charging channels basically charging two 3500 mAh battery at once. This is the way to go.... Battery on the other hand is a consumable and consumers should be able to replace phone battery in the same way they replace a remote control battery. The manufacturer may jutify that Non removable battery exposes the Body With over 4 GB RAM, octa-core processors and advanced graphics that allow phone to be used in a VR headset, the phones these days are miniaturized computers and they cost like a computer. Being a big investment, require also better protection. Companies like Samsung and Apple already make their product water and dust resistant but they moved away from removable batteries. Phones with non-removable battery will add extra cost when consumer needs to replace battery and may affect product ability to resist water and dust because the seals needs to be broken and replaced. It's time to get back to the old time screws that will minimize battery replacement cost, maintaining the water and dust protection that phone had initially. Thicker phones will allow also bigger battery, better drop protection and better water and dust protection Buttons Physical buttons are always preferred to soft buttons. Apple offered successfully on Iphone and Ipad a physical button to turn the speaker On or Off but struggle to do all screen commands with only one button. Keeping only one button per row is also a waste of space that is very important for a miniaturized device. Some manufacturer arranged buttons in such a way that accidentally both power and volume buttons were pressed while grabbing the phone in the hand. Others were smart enough to place the buttons in such way that these will not be pressed accidentally. Don't place the buttons on the back of the phone. Many people are using their phones on a mount (in the car for example) and back buttons cannot be pressed.. Fingerprint scanner should remain at the front of the phone on the physical buttons row.
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