Processors:
PXA320 Monahans
Cortex-A8 will run at up to 600MHz in low-power applications but clock
to 1GHz in more performance-sensitive roles.
128MB Dedicated for open files, running software etc., not for storage,
or 256MB at all would be really nice and enough for any future software.
ROM
Enough to Hold O/S and a fair number of applications and their settings.
Persistent Storage with XIP capability. About 128 MB.
Storage
An internal Micro SDHC should be used for users' files and additional
software
Wireless data networking
WiMAX support
3GPP LTE Support ( via bluetooth)
Camera
Display
Multitouch screen
262k or 16.7M colurs for displaying images and especially videos.
OLED for better contrast, more rich colours, and less energy consumption.
Distance sensing touchscreen
Video acceleration
Hardware acceleration for video playback and 2D/3D accelleration
Transreflective screen
Input devices
Tablet PC like pen input (Wacom Technology)
Regular phone keypad
No Dependence on Stylus
QWERTY or Dvorak keyboard
A laser projection keyboard ( via bluetooth ? )
Just a few more Buttons
2 buttons more, 3 buttons total, mounted sideways would be enough. You
could use them for play/pause and loudness controll while the phone
remains in your pocket (display locked, ...), reading mails, rss,
ebooks,... without wasting display space and so on.
D-Pad and Buttons
3 axis Accelerometer
Determine Position
Dynamic Screen Orientation
Side-Mounted Touch Strip
Heart Rate Compatibility ( bluetooth )
Digital compass
A digital compass is useful for orienting maps to the terrain and other
location/direction/orientation based applications (... is 300 meter that
way) when the user is standing still (regardless of GPS reception) and
for following a bearing when GPS reception is poor or speed is low. Also
could be used to make the accelerometer data more exact.
Wishlist:Auto Align Map
Thermometer
Barometer and Variometer (Altimeter) ( bluetooth or usb )
A Barometer measures air pressure. This can be used to give weather
information, and also as a variometer, to sense relative altitude.
Variometers are commonly used in flying microlight and ultralight
aircraft, to get accurate relative altitude.
These are also common on high end GPS units. This is a great feature for
walkers as you can tell how far you have got on any ascent/decent.
Barcode Scanner (bluetooth )
Light Sensor
Ability to sense ambient light, and act accordingly. i.e if it's 3am and
LightValue.1 then Ring Quietly.
Make all unlocking of phone, password protected
Storage
MMC/SD/SDIO slot (rather than?) miniSD or microSD
Cheaper, more durable cards in a widely accepted format.
Much much larger storage capacity, even 32GB
Cards are harder to lose
Wider selection of accessories, including SDIO accessories.
Make externally available so that larger length SDIO cards can be used
(thinking about SDIO WLAN here)
SDHC compatible. It seems to already have the right hardware for it -
see Neo1973_Hardware#microSD-Card.
SD Card Slot
Micro SDHC for /home partition. Keep like current design underneath SIM
Local Communication
USB
5V Powered, to avoid having to carry around a hub for when you want to
occasionally plug in a memory stick.
USB 2.0
Bootable USB device emulation: the possibility to boot any computer on a
bootable flagged partition of the transflash.
Protection against incorrectly wired USB ports: some USB ports are wired
incorrectly; if the +5V and GND are swapped, the device would get -5V
when it's expecting +5V, which could burn some chips. A reverse-biased
diode between +5V and GND, D+ and GND, D- and GND, and (if used) ID and
GND, with a low enough forward voltage drop (to limite the negative
voltages to what the chips can withstand), would protect the device by
tripping the port's short circuit protection.
2 USB-Ports; one for acting as USB-host and one for acting as USB-device
at same time.
SIR/FIR transceiver (Serial Infrared) / IR remote control
Output devices
LED
The Neo1973 GTA02 will have LEDs of some sort behind at least one
button. [1]
For example a multicolor LED which pulses yellow for GSM/GPRS transmit,
blue for Bluetooth/Wifi, green to indicate non-urgent information -
missed call etc, red to indicate battery low or other urgent notices.
The LED and button ideas could be combined: illuminated buttons.
It must be possible to completely disable the LED to save power or other
personal preferences.
Flashlight ( high output LED )
For finding keys, or any other application. May also optionally pulse in
time with ring, to make phone more visible. This is really well done in
Nokia 5500.
FM transmitter ( bluetooth )
Small FM transmitter to output to car, and other nearby radios.
Fix the biggest flaw in the iPod before Apple does!
Infrared Transmitter w/ universal remote software
HAC Compliance
it would be nice to see the phone include a
telecoil, which allows the phone to connect wirelessly to many
