What 'special' features will your next phone have?

[howardchui]

By special I mean features which are not usually found on entry level phones.

For me:
Infrared port (for my Palm)
Bluetooth (for future stuff)
Large high resolution screen that is easy to read (colour not important but would be nice)
Fast WAP browser
Voice recorder (preferably one that allows me to download the recordings to PC
Voice dialing

[kelvinstokes]

Infrared (For my Palm and notebook)
Voice dialing
T9 of course!!
....And it would have to be TINY......the 8290 suits this perfectly...might upgrade this summer

I've got a 3390 right now though....I'm pretty happy with it...but the 8 series are just so much better

[Faeton]

I want phaser/communicator. So I can whup *** and talk @#%$ all at the same time.

And a fusion powered battery.

[Endy]

IR connection to my PDA would be nice...other than that nothing else really...smaller formfactor without being ugly

heavily customizable (stuff like ringtones and logos) is a plus

hmm, actually T9 would be really useful, although less so now that I have a PDA...

[metacoretex]

NO matter what .. it has to have T9 .. in all data entry functions .. not just for SMS/EMS .. the browser, calander and other functions should have this ability also [like the magcom flip has]

Infrared port & Bluetooth [for communication with portable devices (palm, pocketPC) and desktop]

Colour high-res reflective screen that is functional in&out-doors and with a decent backlight .. with low or NO hiss

Fast WAP browser that will also read cHTML & HTML

i don't care much about voice dialing and voice recording .. but if it is there ... i will use it .. [i m with howard with making voice recordings downloadable]

more A/V ability ... [i m talking PHS/docomo/j-phone stuff here]

but above all ... i want a PROVIDER that will keep it affordable to USE this WONDER fone! ... [but that's wishing for a MIRACLE! .. ..]

[DebsterZ3]

LOL meta... I too do alot of wishful thinking. If only I could patent such a cool phone all my money troubles would disappear

[metacoretex]

oh, i got a NEW feature i want ... [howard and i were discussing it]

we should be able to install fonts onto our phones ..
that is a feature i would LOVE to see ..

imagine not having to look @ that dot-matrix font that all nokias have ... and looking @ verdana, arial, times new roman, courier, or some special-made font, just for your phone ...

if we can customize ringtones and logos .. we should be able to customize the fonts also ...

[note: i have become a sort of FONT-o-holic ... that's how howard and i got to this 1 .. .. hehe]

[mikiew]

blue screen instead of green

Mike

[metacoretex]

OMG no! .. no blue screens .... they are not the best in the dark ..

i'd rather see a good EL backlight screen ... or a screen in yellow, piss yellow ... since it is easiest to read in the dark ..

i really hope the t68 has GOOD backlight on it ..

[Bonka]

Hmmm, very interesting to see an O/S implemented in. Probably wouldn't work well, but, the possibilities!

[metacoretex]

by o/s u mean operating system, rite?

so u want windows on your phone? .. so u will b saying 'sorry about that .. windows crashed my phone' or 'damn, can't make a call .. BSOD'

[i m kidding .. i know embedded windows is a 1000x better than windows 9x]

[Bonka]

There are plenty of "stable" O/S's out there. I like the mac's=)

[emcee]

Check out some of these crazy things that we want out phones to have back in 2001.