iPhone 5S - you can add one new feature

Agent-P · Jan 23, 2013

For changes to the hardware I'd mostly like to see the home button become a capacitive button. And don't give me that BS about accidental presses. That doesn't happen (even in landscape mode).

tmanto02 said:
I do like the idea of live tiles!

I have a Windows Phone and I really love the live tiles. If Apple did something similar then I'd be so happy and probably come back to the iPhone.

woodynorman · Jan 23, 2013

R1PPER said:
Holographic Strippers....thats all i really need in a phone anyway.

This.

akasch · Jan 23, 2013

I want the little square on the home button to turn into a multicolored notification light.

Edit: Damn someone already said it

libertysat · Jan 23, 2013

Screen smaller than g111 bigger than ip5
or
Cordless charger

ChristianVirtual · Jan 23, 2013

Zerilos said:
... someday.

Not someday. Already every day in use for commuting and little purchases at vending machine ... I would love to get NFC. (but there was already another thread battle around that specific topic)

bushman4 · Jan 23, 2013

no bezel

Myiphone7 · Jan 23, 2013

BHP41 said:
Being able to see just my unread emails in the email app. I know....That's software but that's the feature that I want.

Genius my friend. Genius.

I would love this.

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tmanto02 said:
Rumours of the next iPhone/iPhones are coming earlier than any other idevice I have seen.

With that in mind what is the one plausible feature you would add if you had the key to the factory?

Mine: NFC mobile payments

As worried as people are about dropping their iPhone I hope scratch and shatter resistant.

Oh and totally smudge resistant for like 2 years.

Toops · Jan 24, 2013

NFC not for payment but maybe use it for exchanging contact information instantly. And maybe more UI customizations

setty7 · Jan 24, 2013

a little bigger screen (4.3"-4.7")

Multi-color LED notification light(or the home button like someone stated earlier)

problemless wifi

better battery life

faster processor(although the i5 is fast!)

REAL multi-tasking (split-screen)

app killer (hate the double touch home screen crap)

updated siri (app intergrated)

live tiles

maybe widgets

much much moree

r2shyyou · Jan 24, 2013

setty7 said:
a little bigger screen (4.3"-4.7")

Multi-color LED notification light(or the home button like someone stated earlier)

problemless wifi

better battery life

faster processor(although the i5 is fast!)

REAL multi-tasking (split-screen)

app killer (hate the double touch home screen crap)

updated siri (app intergrated)

live tiles

maybe widgets

much much moree

Sorry, you'll need to start a new thread with the following title:

iPhone 5S - you can add 10+ new features

sandwicher · Jan 24, 2013

Agent-P said:
For changes to the hardware I'd mostly like to see the home button become a capacitive button. And don't give me that BS about accidental presses. That doesn't happen (even in landscape mode).

I have a Windows Phone and I really love the live tiles. If Apple did something similar then I'd be so happy and probably come back to the iPhone.

I'm sorry but it's not BS. Accidental presses happens a lot. At least on the SIII it does. Even if you manage to "control" your fingers, say you place the phone in your pockets/bag. The capacitative buttons gets activated by the stuff in the bag, your screen lights up = waste battery.

setty7 · Jan 24, 2013

r2shyyou said:
Sorry, you'll need to start a new thread with the following title:

iPhone 5S - you can add 10+ new features

haha

RichardC300 · Jan 24, 2013

Assuming form factor will be the same and iOS updates do not count...NOTHING! My iPhone 5 is amazing!

If we get into iOS updates, I'd like self-updating Weather and Clock icons like how the Calendar icon is.

STEVESKI07 · Jan 24, 2013

Everyone saying that NFC is useless since it isn't used anywhere yet is looking at it the wrong way. If the iPhone got NFC, there would be a much stronger push for places to use it. There's not much infrastructure built for NFC yet, because there aren't many phones that have it.

And for people saying that the iPhone has a notification light and that it's the camera flash used for deaf people have got to be kidding me. Please, just stop.

yellowbunny · Jan 24, 2013

Little harder to scratch/dent please!

karuk · Jan 24, 2013

4.65 inch screen

Notification LED

"Close all apps at once" button

Ability to put my app icons where ever I want.

Multiple profiles (work/home)

Liquid metal Case

Pompiliu · Jan 24, 2013

a notification LED

ChristianVirtual · Jan 24, 2013

Pompiliu said:
a notification LED

Image

Nice try, but that would not work. It would need to on the top side near the power on button ( or the button itself become "enlighten"). Because that way when carry in a shirt pocket or belt holster you can see it.
Frontfacing would be redundant to the main screen.

pear21 · Jan 24, 2013

STEVESKI07 said:
I don't own the iPhone 5, but I thought the battery was supposed to be better than the 4S?

It was better then the 4s but once they updated to 6.0.2. it became a constant drain for me, my brother, my dad, and a few of my friends who have a 5.

STEVESKI07 · Jan 24, 2013

ChristianJapan said:
Nive try, but that would not work. It would need to on the top side near the power on button ( or the button itself become "enlighten"). Because that way when carry in a short pocket or belt holster you can see it.
Frontfacing would be redundant to the main screen.

Almost every phone has the notification light in a similar spot as the picture he posted and that is where it should be. I keep my Android phone on silent at work and it's sitting on my desk and I can see the light flash on the front when I have a message. If it was on top of the phone, I wouldn't be able to see it. The idea is to be able to see if you have a message without having to turn the screen on. I don't know too many people who carry a holster or carry it in a shirt pocket, so I don't think that is the main target audience for notification lights.

heq2011 · Jan 24, 2013

Wicked1 said:
micro sd card slot, or increase base phone to 32gb and add 128 at top of spectrum, 16 gb is no longer enough especially that the iOS takes up nearly 2-3 gb, cmon Apple it only costs you $.41 cents per GB but you have the nerve to charge us way too much???

This is one game change that may make me switch to a Samsung, tired of having to move photos off my phone, or music just to have space.

+1 I would love expandable storage.

Agent-P · Jan 24, 2013

sandwicher said:
I'm sorry but it's not BS. Accidental presses happens a lot. At least on the SIII it does. Even if you manage to "control" your fingers, say you place the phone in your pockets/bag. The capacitative buttons gets activated by the stuff in the bag, your screen lights up = waste battery.

Capacitive buttons wouldn't be activated by stuff in a bag. But a physical home button would. So currently that's a problem but if they switched to a capacitive button then it wouldn't.

Sure, at first you may have accidental hits with your hand while you get used to it. But once your hands "learn" where the capacitive button is, then they'll avoid it.

26139 · Jan 24, 2013

Huh?

ChristianJapan said:
Wireless charging would be nice and allow us to cut the cable; at least at home

Cut what cable? You'd still need a cable to plug the charger into the wall and the phone would have to sit on it to charge, so what would the savings be?

ChristianVirtual · Jan 24, 2013

STEVESKI07 said:
Almost every phone has the notification light in a similar spot as the picture he posted and that is where it should be. I keep my Android phone on silent at work and it's sitting on my desk and I can see the light flash on the front when I have a message. If it was on top of the phone, I wouldn't be able to see it. The idea is to be able to see if you have a message without having to turn the screen on. I don't know too many people who carry a holster or carry it in a shirt pocket, so I don't think that is the main target audience for notification lights.

So are we all different: when I put my iPhone on the table the existing notification system gives me the feedback I would need. An additional LED would be redundant. But when I walk around the phone rest inside my shirt pocket (and for many other colleagues too). Having a LED on top would be beneficial as I would have a chance to just have a brief look instead to picking the phone from the shirt pocket and check the front side.

ChristianVirtual · Jan 24, 2013

26139 said:
Cut what cable? You'd still need a cable to plug the charger into the wall and the phone would have to sit on it to charge, so what would the savings be?

Depend in the solution it could be only one cable required charging multiple devices. Plus if you have a kind of fixed position of a wireless base station hiding the cable is easier.
I just would like to place my devices on a pad and get them charged.
Your concern would be very valid if for each device you have one charger adopting to the shape; that would not so efficient.

Something like this http://www.duracellpowermat.com/powermat/index.html
But build in and without bulky external attached addon to the phone.

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