What do you want your cellphone to do?

Cell Phones are getting predictably boring now. There is nothing that your cellphone can do that in one way or the other, mine cannot do. Yes, screens can get flashier, cameras can become powerful, displays can get more resolution, but then what?

What technology do you want to see in your phone that they currently don’t have. Technology can be there, just not part of cellphones (like maybe a FM radio or on Air TV receiver), or something futuristic like a full body scanner (much like Star Trek).

Share with us that you want your next cellphone to do.

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Scan for diseases would be a good start

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most importantly - not die when it falls into water.

secondly, replace a wallet, and home and car keys.

i have a feeling the whole health tracking part is overly exaggerated. the phone can be a link to the cloud, but not the sensor. much of the tech challenge in health tracking is in designing wearable sensors like a portable EKG or BP cuff. they arent simple, nor would they be cheap.

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I like to have my phone have bigger screen only when I need it. A foldable screen phone might be coming out this year. That might be a good thing.

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warn us of dangers ahead...like oncoming cars, a person with a gun/knife around you, locate police trap ahead, radar to warn severe weather ahead etc

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Hmmm I like the person with a gun alarm. Even if someone is carrying a legal gun, if he is around me, I need to know

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and somewhere in texas, a guy is building a phone with a built in assault rifle..

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I would like mine to provide me some emotional support because men suck at it. :mad:

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Naw. We use duct tape to attach phones to our rifles.

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The ability to stay charged for an extended period of time(at least a week or two) would be nice.

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That’s what girlfriends are for.

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that is so 2001. We called it Nokia 3310

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It's a feature that needs to make a comeback.

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I agree. Maybe phones should come with dual battery, where the second battery is reserved only for phone calling , so even if the main dies down, the reserved battery can help you to make calls at least.

Hmmmm, not a bad idea. Let me patent the idea

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I think a similar idea already exists. I can switch my phone to power saving mode which underclocks the phone's processor, switches the phone to a grayscale display and limits the number of app I can use. I don't know if there is an option that sends the phone to power saving mode once the battery levels drops to a specific level. Even if such a feature is not available out of the box, I'm sure there is an app for that or you could just put together a custom ROM for your phone that does this.

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I know a lot of people need to carry their glucose testers around. A cell phone with one would be good. Back in 2004-2008 there was a lot of noise around portable testing devices but then it kind of died.

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.. Meh... too much work.

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Are there phones out there tv tuners? Can I watch local on air channels on a phone?

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I think you can watch channels on phone yet, as far as I know.

Do you know about Kodi?

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I am not talking about streaming tv. Just simple old school on air tv tuner