[REVIEW] Building the Perfect Smart Phone: PC World's Design

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(Model: N96)

What would you include in the perfect smart phone? Here's a concept we've put together; it melds the top features of today's smartphones to build the dream device of tomorrow. This is not a real product....yet.



INTERFACE: Our FrankenPhone would add vibration feedback to the iPhone's multitouch screen, or maybe even the BlackBerry Storm's ability to depress slightly when clicked (what RIM calls ClickThrough). We love accelerometers, BlackBerry-like trackballs, and the T-Mobile G1's slide-out keyboard, too, but we would stick with the nonslip keys of the BlackBerry Bold.

OPERATING SYSTEM: Imagine the elegance of Apple's iPhone OS and iTunes App Store mixed with the openness of Google's Android and third-party Market. The result: killer apps like BioWallet, which uses the T-Mobile G1's camera as a retina-scanning replacement for passwords. Add support for true multitasking and Flash, and we'd be happy campers indeed. See our smart-phone OS smackdown for more.

STORAGE: The 16GB storage of the high-end iPhone 3G is sweet, but the support for the 16GB+ MicroSDHC card in recent BlackBerry devices and in the T-Mobile G1 is sweeter. Nokia's pricey N96 (about $800 off contract) smart phone has both.

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the thing that i noticed first and didnt make me want to even read the article was the iphone images that they used for the tabs.... why does everyone think so greatly of the iphone? the only reason i can think of is that it has the looks and the advertisement campagne behind it since appkle is known for dropping big bucks on looks and advertisement instead of functionaliy at the same time....