Building the Ultimate Smartphone

http://www.cio.com/article/504614/Building_the_Ultimate_Smartphone

Processor: Samsung S5PC100. This is a top-of-the-line processor that is used in the iPhone 3GS and that runs at 600MHz. Aaron Vronko, the cofounder of RapidRepair.com, has said that this processor is particularly powerful because it combines a central processing unit, a graphics processing and a memory controller onto one chip, thus creating a more efficient processing system.

Honorable mention goes to the Texas Instruments OMAP 3430 processor, which has many of the same features as the S5PC100 and which is used in the Palm Pre

Operating system: Three-way tie! IPhone OS, Google Android and Palm webOS. Operating systems all have so many different features that it's difficult to settle on just one as "the best." In terms of ease of use andcustomer satisfaction, the iPhone's OS comes out on top. However, that doesn't mean that the OS X couldn't incorporate features from other operating systems to make it even better. For example, OS X could adopt a more open architecture such as Android's Linux-based system to make it easier for developers to create applications. Or it could incorporate the Palm webOS's ability to layer applications, thus letting users keep several applications open at once and flip seamlessly between them.


Keyboard and screen: The BlackBerry Curve 8900 series and the iPhone 3GS, respectively. This is where creating a fantasy phone starts to butt heads with physical engineering. After all, if you want a big screen, it makes it more difficult to produce a large full QWERTY keyboard to the phone and vice-versa. But if we could have both a large screen and keyboard on a device, we'd combine the iPhone's 3.5-inch screen with the BlackBerry Curve 8900's superb keypad. Of course, an actual phone that had both of these features would probably be too heavy and too large for many people to carry around, but that's why this is a fantasy exercise.