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A couple of times, I've thought "it always just seems to be improving cameras or making phones thinner that get billed in updates", but then I wondered what the things are that I would like to see myself.
I'm kind of trying to move more of my use to a laptop on Linux from a phone on Android
more open system. But if something were going on the phone:
I'd like to have a way to get an external antenna that I could place somewhere in some situations to get better reception. Maybe have a standard for an entire external USB or Bluetooth transceiver and just have the internal SIM do auth.
I'd like external USB-connected power banks to be able to report battery level and have a phone treat the power as contributing to its remaining running time. I went through the USB spec some time back, and USB permits for power supply devices to report a battery level. I've seen Bluetooth earpieces that do report battery level, though USB power banks seem not to do so. Part of that is probably chicken-and-egg, though: unless Android (and GNU/Linux, which is in the same boat) make useful use of that data, battery bank manufacturers probably won't start reporting it. Someone has to take the first step.
Most of the time what I want is actually a better camera.
(I have better cameras, they're just not always at hand)