There's that overused innovation word again. Do you just mean "new stuff"? Not all new features are "innovative." I really don't think there's been anything truly "innovative" in cellphones since the launch of the original iphone in 2007.
Exactly.
Back in the day we had bricks for mobile phones. They got smaller, but had crappy little grey screens. Eventually we had WAP. We've got to the point now where smart phones have amazing full colour touch screens, are incredibly intuitive to use, can do incredible things, can get online pretty much anywhere, and are lightning fast.
As time goes on there's a lot less room for innovation I think.
A lot of people talk about innovation, but pinning down actual features people want is more difficult.
The top three things missing from the iphone I tend to see mentioned are:
1. NFC - I guess it could be useful, but at the moment it doesn't really seem to have caught on much, and arguably still isn't secure enough. Although possibly has uses around a home for some people.
2. Widgets - as long as I can have up to 324 apps available within two taps, they only seem to offer marginal benefit.
3. Wireless charging - putting the phone onto a mat rather than on a dock doesn't seem much more than novelty to me. Although they probably would be useful in cars.
As for innovations around the corner, not in any phone yet, what sort of things do people have in mind?
Someone earlier mentioned 4k screens in phones, but I thought they were being sarcastic.
Any increase in resolution (with all other screen specs remaining equal) isn't innovation, and would only offer an incredibly marginal benefit to a very small number of users.
Which isn't to say that screen quality can't be improved, as the iPhone 5 has shown.
