Storage, Battery, Software, Other Features

Storage: 64 GB of NVMe NAND with microSD card slot

How do you get the best of both storage worlds? By including both ultra-fast storage and a microSD card slot. I'd use an Apple-fashion custom NVMe controller for extremely fast transfer speeds, which I'd then pair with 64 GB of NAND every bit standard. This would give you plenty of fast on-board storage for apps and games right out of the box.

For those that want to add in more than storage to their smartphone without paying a premium for larger capacity smartphones, I would offer a microSD card slot. It's actually not that hard to include an extra tray in the torso of the smartphone that would support microSD storage, and it gives users extra flexibility to buy cheap 64 or 128 GB cards if they want to store a ton of movies or music on their handset.

Battery: Non-removable iv,300 or 3,000 mAh lithium-ion.

Unfortunately, most next-generation battery technologies won't fifty-fifty be shut to public availability in 2022, so we're stuck with lithium-ion for now. The trouble with about smartphones is that they don't include batteries that are big plenty for a typical solar day'southward apply, which is why my ideal smartphone would pack a massive 4,300 mAh battery.

The battery in this smartphone would exist nearly a full 800 mAh larger than what is found in the Samsung Galaxy S6 Active and Motorola Moto Ten Play, both of which evangelize excellent battery life. Considering the S6 Active is eight.6mm thin, and this ideal smartphone would feature a battery 23% larger, we'd be looking at a trunk thickness somewhere in the ten.5mm range.

At ten.5mm thick, this ideal smartphone would be thicker than virtually flagship handsets on the market today. All the same, the battery life would exist insane, and it would be worth the few extra grams and millimetres that would become to all-around the larger bombardment. Considering non every inch of the phone would exist taken upwards past battery, there's a chance that the device could be slimmer than ten.5mm every bit well, which would be an ergonomic win.

For people who a bit more concerned about slimness and form factor, the ideal smartphone would too come up in a variant with a iii,000 mAh battery at 7.5mm thick. Every other specification would be identical, including the fact the battery would be not-removable, and this slimmer smartphone would price slightly less likewise.

The merely possibly contentious aspect of this battery design would be the fact that it'southward non-removable. I chose to forgo a removable bombardment to salve infinite on the inside of the handset, which would permit information technology to exist slimmer overall. Plus, the battery life would be good enough to not demand the ability to hot-bandy batteries on the go, and external battery packs are and so cheap these days that if you really needed more battery life, a cheap battery pack is the way to get.

Other Features: Dual-SIM, 4 GB of RAM, USB 3.1 Blazon-C, Fingerprint Scanner…

There's more to the platonic smartphone than basic specifications: I besides desire the all-time set of features of whatever smartphone on the market. How would I reach this? Through including all of these features, arranged from well-nigh to least important:

  • A fingerprint sensor on the rear of the device. I've used smartphone with sensors on the front, dorsum and side of the trunk, and plant the rear to the most comfortable and natural position to use. This sensor would be extremely fast and just as authentic as Affect ID or Nexus Banner.
  • Fast Qi wireless charging, and ultra-fast wired charging. Past harnessing next-generation technology for both types of charging, the 4,300 mAh battery would be able to accuse in a very short menstruation of time, ideally under an hour. The S6 Agile'south 3,500 mAh battery takes 105 minutes to charge, and so with advances we'll see in smartphones this year, less than lx minutes for a larger battery via wired charging should exist possible.
  • USB 3.i Type-C, which is a feature I haven't come up beyond on a smartphone yet. I've seen plenty of handsets that support the extremely useful reversible Type-C connector, but I'd similar to meet this ideal smartphone pair the connector with fast USB 3.1 transfer speeds, something that should be possible

  • Dual front facing speakers, providing stereo audio while watching videos and playing games. This isn't anything special, as we've seen companies like HTC, Sony and Huawei integrate these speakers before, only we're not at the stage where information technology's a feature found in every device.
  • IP68 h2o resistance, with no flaps over any ports. With a photographic camera so crawly, yous'd want the phone to be capable of underwater photography (in fresh water), and splash resistance is also pretty useful.
  • iv GB of RAM is more than than plenty for today's smartphone tasks. Yous can't go wrong having more RAM in your smartphone.
  • A iii.5mm sound jack. Rumor has information technology that Apple will ditch this feature on the upcoming iPhone 7, which would exist a huge mistake considering the vast majority of headphones produced over the past 30 years utilise this very jack. Adapters are annoying, so the ideal smartphone would include support for basically all headphones on the market.

  • NFC. It goes without saying that a flagship telephone should have NFC support for contactless payments. The ideal smartphone doesn't feature compromises similar the OnePlus ii.
  • An RGB notification LED for the piece of cake power to view whether you have a notification or not.
  • And finally... dual SIM support, not merely for emerging markets, but for everyone. This would easily let you to apply the telephone for both work and personal life, or to optimize your plan spending by leveraging multiple carriers.

Software: Latest version of stock Android with Nexus updates

I like iOS, simply I prefer to use Android, which is why the ideal smartphone for me would run the latest version of Android without whatsoever OEM skins. I've been using a Nexus 6P for a few months now, and there'due south no doubt that stock Android is the best way to feel and employ the operating organization on a daily basis. At that place are a few changes I'd make to Android, which I listed in my Android six.0 review, but it's a fine OS to use on a smartphone.

I'd also ensure that this idea smartphone signed upwards to receive updates extremely speedily, similar to a Nexus device. This would keep the smartphone on cut border software, and would help keep the device secure equally bugs and flaws are discovered.

If I was to add a new characteristic to Android, information technology would exist e'er-on voice commands, like to the Moto X Fashion or the iPhone 6s. Whether the screen was off or displaying an app, the ability to quickly Google things via Google Now would be useful, assuming the battery life hit isn't hugely meaning.

Why wasn't Windows 10 Mobile or any other smartphone Os considered? For the simple fact that no other Os aside from iOS and Android has a mature platform with a quality choice of third-party apps. I dearest the Windows 10 Mobile homescreen setup and some of the Os' other features, but it's but not as versatile or suitable equally Android for my daily usage patterns.

Wrap-Up

Now that I've gone through every attribute of this smartphone'south hardware, let's take a look at the final spec sheet:

  • Qualcomm Snapdragon 820: 2x Kryo CPUs at two.two GHz, 2x Kryo CPUs at i.vi GHz, Adreno 530, Wi-Fi ac, MU-MIMO, Bluetooth 4.two, A-GPS
  • 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM
  • 5.3-inch AMOLED at 2560 x 1440 (554 ppi)
  • 23-megapixel 1/2.3" Sony Exmor IMX300 rear sensor with i.1μm pixels, f/one.9 24mm lens, OIS, dual-tone LED flash, laser-assisted autofocus, 4K recording, 240fps slow motility
  • 12-megapixel 1/2.iii" Sony Exmor IMX377 front sensor with 1.55μm pixels, f/2.0 lens, 4K recording
  • 64 GB of NAND with microSD expansion
  • 16.55 Wh (iv,300 mAh) or 11.55 Wh (three,000 mAh) non-removable lithium-ion battery
  • Dual-SIM LTE Category 12
  • USB three.1 Blazon-C with ultra-fast charging
  • Fast Qi wireless charging
  • IP68 water resistance
  • Fingerprint sensor, NFC, 3.5mm audio jack, stereo front speakers, notification LED
  • Aluminium and Gorilla Glass 4 body, approximately x.5mm thin
  • Android half-dozen.0 or later with fast updates

How much would this telephone cost? Because the current prices of smartphones like the Nexus 6P ($549 for 64 GB at launch), a phone with this collection of hardware would probably be $100-150 more expensive. This would place the handset'southward price at effectually $650-700, which is the same price as the base model Apple iPhone 6s.

Would it exist worth it? Absolutely.