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Fuzzy Logic HTC Touch just not advanced enough
Fuzzy Logic HTC Touch just not advanced enough | HTC Touch just not advanced enough |
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| Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Thursday, 07 June 2007 | |
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Page 3 of 3 Better sound quality is a feature lacking on all of today’s phones. Why are we still putting up with ‘telephone quality’ when Skype can transmit CD quality sound between Skype-to-Skype callers? It’s all to do with the circuit switched network the fact that your voice is compressed to save space as it travels over the airwaves. There’s also the issue of a keyboard. People still seem to like the keyboard. Just imagine if the iPhone remained as thin as it does, but nevertheless had a bottom section which slid out from underneath the screen in horizontal mode, and that bottom section contained a QWERTY keyboard with much better space than that found on a BlackBerry or Treo. Naturally, space for the battery, motherboard, storage, sliding mechanism, antenna, the keyboard keys and more all need to be taken into account, but with miniaturization having already taken things down to a nano level and even smaller, there’s no reason why things won’t get smaller still while offering even better capabilities and qualities than before, as has been happening now for decades, making such a slide out super slim yet easily usable keyboard possible in the future. The iPhone should have such a keyboard (in addition to the touch screen keyboard) and the HTC Touch should have one too. Thicker models than the HTC Touch already offer such keyboards with great success, the challenge is keeping the iPhone and HTC Touch as thin, while still successfully offering the slideout keyboard feature. Smartphones need to come with 3.5G HSDPA and soon enough, WiMAX - along with whatever comes next – and yes, iPhone, at this moment in time we’re looking at you with your lacklustre 2.75G EDGE support, albeit with 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi with rumored Wi-Fi 'n' support. The other biggie is battery technology. We really need to seriously work on this technology to dramatically improve lifespan. It’s been spoken about for years, with plenty of efforts made but little real progress shown. It’s incredibly slow going, with today’s lithium ion batteries only just keeping up with all the capabilities on offer today. But at least with most phones you can replace the battery with a newly charged one as needed. Please iPhone, let the rumors of a removable battery cover be true. In the expectation that it won’t as with its iPod brethren, once again oh mighty iPhone, we’re looking at you. Perhaps future iPhones will offer this feature. Look, there’s plenty of other ways that today’s smartphones really aren’t that smart. Sure, they jam in more functions that ever before, but at ‘differing levels of quality’. But we’re starting to see the next generation finally arrive, with the N95 – and clearly the iPhone – as excellent examples, coming closest to offering the most top notch features in a smooth package where almost every feature is performed to a much higher standard than virtually every other phone, with features as good or usually even better in some way than stand alone devices. But most other smartphones are still stuck in a 2 megapixel, 64MB of RAM, tiny screen, no Wi-Fi world of the last generation. Some might say that’s what what people want, but if that’s all they’re offered, that’s all they’re really able to buy. That’s likely why there’s been such interest in both the Nokia N95, with ten times more still for the iPhone. These are true ‘handheld computers’ that let you have multiple digital experiences, wherever you are, at a quality that’s better than anything such a compact devices has ever offered to consumers at large has offered before. It’s not just marketing fluff either – people have taken notice of both phones and their support for seriously cool and advanced features. But for all their advancements, it has to be remembered that these are the true ‘version 1.0’ products of the next generation. As always, the best is yet to come, but for now, the iPhone and the Nokia N95 are where it’s at. If you’re looking for an excellent digital device, choose between one of these two, and either way you won’t be sorry. But this advice is only valid now, in mid 2007. By 2008, more iPhone clones and do-it-all phones that strive to outdo the N95 will arrive, along with the likelihood of more advanced Apple iPhone models. Whichever way you look at it, one thing is for sure – the future is calling, and it will be calling you. Are you ready to answer?{moscomment}
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