The Ideal Smartphone for 2016
 

"The Ideal Smartphone for 2016"

That's not a real device, but the title of an article on techspot by Tim Schiesser published today. In it he describes his idea of the perfect hardware and software for the aforementioned communications device. Sadly, he'd like Android instead of iOS, Windows Phone or some "obscure" OS. And no hardware keyboard like I'd prefer. But it's interesting what he picks as the must-have features for a perfect handheld. Amoled display and RGB indicator LED together seem redundant, but those were two of the cool features of the N9 and N900 respectively . . .

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And the answer is:


Neo900 :D

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Do you change smartphone every year? I still use the N900 as my main device. Yesterday I replaced my dumbphone for a Nexus 5 after reading about sfdroid on the Sailfish 2.0 on Nexus 5 forum.
I think the Blackberry passport is ideal for 2016.

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Lumia 950XL, better camera than 1020 camera. Extremely great photo quality

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These "smartphone" gurus used to flock desperately to buy Motorola Razr V3, when I owned Nokia N73.

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Speaking of which, I should really get back to work on the front end stuff for that today, I've just been lazy. liar has done all the renderer/input/sensor side of things (not to say it's finished but what he's been working on). I'll be working on the other less important more polish-y things like adding Android app icons to the Sailfish app drawer upon installation in sfdroid, passing Android Notifications through to Sailfish , replacing the Android keyboard with Sailfish keyboard and that kind of stuff.

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Intex Aquaphone with SFOS2.0

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- N9 display and form factor - Ok display could be up to 4,3 ...
- N8 camera
- Replaceable (and available) battery
- Definitive a non-Nokia-designed USB port ;-)
- SailfishOS 3.2 (working pim, better browser and please system wide copy and paste)
- sd card slot
- double sim

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As per jellyroll...
hehe...yeah....
last time I got a new smartphone...
WAS my 1st smartphone....and that was 2010...
(before that it was simple dumbphone)
and it was of course the n900...
I have tinkered with other friends devices since...
just to see if I could migrate...
and nope...just couldn't...
The neo is going to be the next device I get...

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because, definition of smartphone is "that thingy with no buttons and big shiny icons" for most people. I started with R380 so all my phones were "smart".
And perfect one for 2016 would be some 5" with UIQ2

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BlackBerry Passport SE + Nexus 5 \ Intex Sailfish device. :D

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Due to the decline in battery life since the LG G2 (the magical port on the G5 is somewhat tempting in hopes of a HW keyboard although the other specs aren't that impressive), my ideal smartphone is swaying towards the Xperia Z6. Although The S7 is quite tempting spec wise. Touchwiz is disgusting and Samsung devices tend to be a pain to root, and port Sailfish on to.

I don't switch phones every year like some people. I got the Nexus 5 when it came out, before that was the Xperia Ray (the last Sony Ericsson device before Sony bought out Ericsson's share) before that I had the Nokia 6300 for about 8 years until it started shocking me whenever I put it on charge, and got fed up of not having a smartphone ;). I was tempted to get the Motorola Dext and the Nokida N9 of course but it never came to the UK :( at one point, and I could have gone with the Xperia Play, Motorola Atrix and the Nexus S. Not really sure why I ended up picking the Xperia Ray but it served me well until I got fed up of the speed and size.

Sometimes I change smartphones every month. But only between my N900 and N9 and back again based on mood...

So I haven't really gotten a new phone for over 3 years now.

My in-laws seem to be changing phones faster tit'shan underwear, but I think really every two years to get the latest phone one year and tablet another. Still seems fast to me.

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SD 820 with meego inside, sdcard slot + removable battery, and with reasonable price...1080p is enough

Or maemo5 with latest chipset...

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My ideal smartphone? Absolutely the opposite of everything that will probably be posted here. I don't want a N900, I don't want another smaller phone like the N9. I want something that will receive updates, protect my privacy, works well and is flexible enough to not be in the way of my daily operations and expected ways to communicate and/or complete tasks that are suited on my phone.

Vague? Yes. Has anybody done so on a mobile handset yet? Not yet.

With that said, a N9 with updated applications on way faster hardware and a much larger screen (I have big hands and older eyes) and USB-C connection and more RAM would be a good start since that device matched my workflow then; not sure about now though.

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Dual-SIM N9, with slightly larger screen and Iam in

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Ale you Chinese? ;)

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5.5" 2.5d oled screen @ 1920x1080
14nm Arm64 multicore with Vulkan capable GPU
4gb / 64gb
unibody design with 'zero' bezel

oh, and Sailfish 2.0.1

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LOL Yeah. They could make it.

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Please stop, you really get me horny. :D:D

ahahaha however about your other post, what about LG G2 port? i misunderstood or it might be sailfish ported?

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Openmoko ;)

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Nothing about Sailfish on LG G2, no port exists as far as I know. I was saying the battery life of LG flagship phones have declined sharply after the G2. The G2 was known for it's great battery life, G3 and G4 have been poor, and the rumours suggest an even bigger decline for the G5 with a smaller battery, which is why I was saying I'm swaying against getting the G5.

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Just ordered an Nexus 5 myself as Sailfish is getting pretty mature on it and the progress with sfdroid and such. Intex I worry a bit about the modem, it may be tailored only to the India region. Guess we'll find out in a few weeks.

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N9 with more faster hardware, updated apps, android app capability, slightly larger form/screen, smaller bezel top and bottom, fm transmitter that works, larger capacity battery, better camera

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anti-matter powered or better still
powered by a black hole core...
and I am soooo in.

I can see it now...
irritated end users throwing their phones on the ground in exasperation
aaaannnnnddd...
cue the faint sound of the containment field around the core giving at impact...
aaannnnddd...
cue the "sucking" and earth and fabric of time and space rending sounds ....
aaaaannnddd...
the annoying end user is gone...
and possibly this sector of space with them....
hum...maybe not the best start up idea...

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I'm still using N900 :(

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yea...me too...
it could be worse though...
soooo much worse....

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also have N950 but it's not as good as our old N900. must to have of course. for experience.

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I have always dreamt of electronics powered by the same stuff living organisms use as an energy source. Just imagine: your laptop/phone/whatever bleeps "I am hungry" and you, instead of desperately looking for a nearest wall socket to plug in a charger, open a little drawer at its side and slide a food pellet in. A lump of sugar is packed with energy and breaking it down produces only water and CO2, i.e. no solid waste to take care of.

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Grab the cat by the tail and plug it into the uctb (universal cat tail bus) and charge it up on cat power!
disclaimer:
Warning may drain cat!
Do not leave cat plugged in for extended periods of time or leave cat unattended...

Actually it is a grand idea theoretically ...
quite a few sci-fi plots are of ships an devices which are organically based...grand premise.
Just gotta have a plentitude of localized cat to power the suckers...

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OR a piezoelectric case fabric that charges as you move

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Something like http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/12/...bot/index.html ?

On the other hand, flies can be hard to catch, and one can easily get
out of sugar... but we carry a lot of blood everywhere we go. A builtin needle and suddenly all these 'my phone sucks!' get solid ground.

And "Feeed me, Seymour!" as low-battery warning.

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Yes, exactly something like that.

The only thing is...

...how many flies can it catch at that speed? ;)

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Realistically it would be Nexus 5 w pure SfOS 2.1 plus Maru OS plus SFDroid.

Ideally Fairphone 2 SfoS 2.1.

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hmmm..
y'know this premise of devices running on organics is coming awfully close to this kinda outcome....
forget uctb power...
ultimately it would end up being uhbb (universal human brain bus) powered...
such as in the dystopic outcome from the movie Skyline...

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EcoBot II is step 2 of 6. EcoBot VI is codenamed Miyagi.

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BlackBerry Z30 is the perfect phone for me i have a N9 MotoG3gen and BBZ30 the only thing that i want are more native apps pracally every app installed on my MotoG run perfectly on Z30 just a few don't because google play services **** but with some tricks i can make run those apps, i got 2 whatsapp on my Z30, 2 facebooks apps, Flash, and all that in the second best UI ever created (first N9), the N9 always go with me i love that phone i dont know why, i use the N9 when i want dissapear with my girl from the world i use WhatsUp offlinemode i hide some chats (lol) and for maps mostly, the only phone that i would buy in 2016 a Blackberry Priv but with BB10 OS

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Have you tried Cobalt's solution (from CrackBerry forums) for the Google services on BB10? It's supposed to work well, if you set it up correctly.

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yes i do some work some others don't