Veit did a great job of covering the evolution of existing architectural features and hardware capabilities. I would like to add my own 5 cents on what I would like to see that could be very cool, useful, and also disruptive to other devices. Most of my wish list has to do with add-ons/accessories:
Wireless Keyboard
A wired or, ideally, wireless keyboard that I could roll up and store in a tube when not needed, and unroll and type on when I needed to do word processing. If you assume that the iPhone 4G will have a Pentium-class processor, it will be more than suited to this task. Once it has word processing, it could cause major competition for netbooks, because there will really only be one reason to have a netbook, screen real estate, which brings me to…
Matching Wireless Virtual Display Glasses
This tech already exists and is for sale, though currently only at a resolution of 320×240. This is, IMO, the missing link for mobile devices. Imagine that Apple, with its normal design prowess, creates a finally-ready-for-prime-time pair of projection glasses that can do at least 800×600, but more preferably 1024×768, that can wirelessly display iPhone screen contents. Apple would sell a ton of them because they could be used:
- to playback and view picture slideshows and videos shot on or received by the iPhone
- for web browsing and word processing with a reasonable screen
- for other compatible devices to watch movies on airplanes, for instance.
Eventually, a future generation of these glasses could be used for augmented reality, such that the iPhone could provide a virtual heads-up display with turn-by-turn directions, information overlays for museum tours, etc.
This could very well crater a lot of Kindle and other e-book business if it were done properly. Why would I need a Kindle if I could read a book virtually projected in front of me at 50″ rather than at 8 or 9″ as on the Kindle?
Pico Projector Add-on.
It seems like a no-brainer that as more mobile devices this year and next have pico-projectors built in the iPhone will have one either built-in or as an add-on. It has to happen. This would allow for group playback of videos and still-image slideshows on the most popular mobile device for consumers. And, it would bring the real-world ’social’ network back into vogue–you remember that, where you actually sat and watched a slideshow on the wall or on a screen?
Image Stabilization
As Veit previously mentioned in this post, image stabilization, or some form of it, needs to be included in the iPhone 4G. This is a key photography feature that would serve video recording as well.
These are a few features and accessories that I would suggest for the iPhone 4G in 12 months’ time.
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