iPhone 5- Five cool things it could have

while every one is waiting to see new iPhone from Apple, I start to wonder what new things Apple can bring in to keep the freshness and uniqueness of his products. Now that Apple has taken over the smartphone market and is a leader by long distance, it would be foolish to assume for Apple to take this position for granted. Not so long ago, Nokia was the leader in phone and Blackberry redefined the smartphone market, both are struggling, if not for survival but for investor's confidence in their position in the market.

Now that Apple design, the software iOS and other features like touch screen , multi touch and Swipe are quite known and common and loosing the freshness, more like becoming standard for phones and tablets, what more Apple can bring to table?

iPhone 4S has attempted to redefine the personal assistance with SIRI, which is cool but not always useful as you don't want to be using this in public, else everyone will hear you. However, this makes it using your phone while driving or working so much better.. you don't have to touch the phone...
anyway, below I list some of my thoughts on what features I would like to see in iPhone, either the next iPhone 5 or sometime in future...
1. Dual SIM- I think Apple will do well to bring Dual SIM feature in iPhone too. Many people have 2 phones , one because they always had or work related and other is iPhone. if Apple can bring dual SIM feature, people will actually drop the other phone and keep iPhone. And other SIM should not be locked, they can keep the slot free but only works when the locked SIM is there as well , this will protect the interest of service providers as well.
2- Apple TV- Lot of TV channels are free to Air and Apple can do well to create the App to receive the free to air TV stations of whatever country you are in. Trust me, People have lot of time to kill even in today's world and they are on iPhone anyway. also they will never miss the favorite TV shows or Sport on the go.
3- Apple Money- Apple can develop App to allow people to pay for everyday shopping from their iPhone at all Major stores without using their credit cards. load the money in the App from Bank account and use it as credit card. Retailers can use iPad at checkout and app will send the receipt to iPhone which user accepts and makes the payment from Apple Money. Take the Credit card business out of the equation. Any points earned from this transaction can be used towards iTunes purchases.
4- Apple Projector- A small lens on the phone to throw the image on the phone to any wall/screen for larger viewing. people can play games in group watching the images on the wall as well as use to show keynote presentations to clients/office workers.
5- New Apple home screen- The familiarj site of iPhone home screen with multiple App icons is nice but it get crowded once you have over 40-50 Apps, you don't always remember the location and keep swiping left and right. Allow each page a short tab and show horizontal bar on left/right to jump directly to the page , people can arrange Apps on pages like Games, Office, etc, very much the same way how App Store categories are managed.

well, Apple may have some better ideas to bring to iPhone 5, and I look forward to be surprised, if it has any of the above features as well, It will make life more comfortable for me.



- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad