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Keyboard and not every phone looks like a black slab
3D Screen Pico Projector HDMI out Notification LED Removable battery
The first smartphone I owned was the Lobster 700TV, Which as the name suggests had a digital TV receiver built in. The screen was too small to be practical, but I've always liked quirky features like that
I loved the IR Blaster on my old Galaxy S4, was really fun to mess with the TV's in public places with it sometimes and was also pretty useful at home as well!
I got a Samsung flagship mostly for DeX, even tho I'm enjoying the whole thing, I really wish desktop mode on Android was more easily accessible. Like 99% of the market doesn't even use the required USB C version for it.
As well as better app compatibility when going on a big screen, a lot of android apps just don't scale well.
The ability to easily unlock bootloaders, IPS screen and removable batteries.
I miss the FM radio
Not really a feature of the phone, but a design theory. I want my small phone back. Not this "zenfone 9" size small. Like HTC One size small.
Make it bifold wallet sized, and ~1/2"thick.
These hugely tall phones where you can't reach the top third if the screen without dropping the thing are just annoyingly huge. Then they make them so thin they can't fit a big enough battery for a full day use.
Beyond that would like an under display fingerprint sensor. Rear and side mounted always have issues with cases for me, and make it more annoying when using the device while it's on a desk.
true background process management and battery
Keyboard. I want a damn keyboard. I'm a blackberry refugee hiding out on a unihertz titan/titan slim
I guess we should start with the obvious which is bring back the headphone jack, bring back SD card support, bring back some kind of reasonable access to the battery... Doesn't need to be hot swappable necessarily.
And then something smaller, something between like an iPhone mini and a Pixel 4a. If it's small enough I would love for it to have purpose-built cases with like a lanyard or something.
Is a big fan of what LG was doing these last few years so I wish the dual screen case was still around, the Hi-Fi DAC, the wacom pen support and the desktop mode.
I would have loved to see a company partner with like moondrop or somebody and release a phone that comes with a parametric EQ and a Hi-Fi dacand maybe bundle it with a nice pair of IEMs
Also had a screen mirroring option where you could adjust the aspect ratio so there was less letterboxing. Even if you weren't using a desktop mode screen mirroring was much better.
I love the pixels astrophotography mode, I would like to see that come to more phones as well.
Hifi dac...for sure. Especially now that LG is gone and Asus seems to have abandoned it.
Pop up camera Small phone with the purpose built case with a lanyard or something sort of like the ZenFone 9.
Support for either Wacom or USI stylus.
A rugged phone that had night vision which seemed kind of cool
physical keyboard. I particularly liked the two letter per button like was used on the BlackBerry Pearl.
The debut of the Google Pixel Fold got me interested in foldables. If Google is joining the game then android hopefully will become better optimized for foldable screens.
I enjoyed the squeeze to activate assistant on Pixel 2 XL..just felt right. I even configured it to activate flashlight when I needed a quick light.
Removable dual display like in LG G8x, V60 etc. When you need it you can have a beast of a phone with 2 screen or a slim normal flagship.
A Silent/Vibrate/Ring switch like on the OnePlus phones, headphone jack and a easily swappable battery.
I've had 3 Motorola's where the charge port stopped working just past warranty. Now I always look for wireless charging.
Niche feature....
By Apple's standards a headphone jack.
By Android's standards IR blaster. Had them in my last 2 phone and man is it nice to turn the volume down on a TV which is too loud in a public place like a Hotel Lobby or a Restaurant
My brother had one of the original Moto X phones which had this neat gesture where you waved over the screen and it turned on to show you your notifications. I think it was a basic proximity sensor thing, but it was super useful when the phone was on the table.
Can't believe I haven't seen it since.
I remember this! I loved showing it to people as a neat albeit kinda gimmicky feature. I think my pixel 2 mightve had it? Or maybe it was the redmi note 4x running a custom rom i had before it. handy if you had dirty hands but apart from that it was always quicker and more reliable just to reach over and actually hit the power button to wake the screen.