You might have noticed by now that we’re great cribbers. With most of the products that we review, almost always, we can find either this element missing, or that other feature which could’ve been better. So we thought of coming up with our list of peeves. Better still, a wish list of what we would ideally want in a product.

So here’s a look at things we wish cell phones had, and maybe things even the industry at large should wake up and incorporate to make our lives easier. One thing is wishful thinking, but what is the reality? What are the latest developments taking place in the world towards perfection? We’ll tell you about them too.

Universal charging

At some point in your life there would definitely have come a moment when you found yourself running around your office in sheer desperation looking for a Nokia thin-pin charger, or a Sony Ericsson W series charger. Isn’t it frustrating? Your phone is about to die out, there’s electricity around, but you can’t tap into any of it! For long, people have been cribbing and crying about the thousand-odd types of charging pins out there, courtesy cell phone manufacturers trying to be unique perhaps. Why can’t they just come together and make just one universal charging plug? It turns

out they are. At the recent World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, the GSMA and 17 leading mobile operators and manufacturers announced that they are committed to implementing a cross-industry standard for a universal charger for new mobile phones. Apart from consumer experience improvement, the reasons are also energy saving and waste reduction. Hopefully, if all goes as per plan, you can expect the new charging solution based on Micro-USB to be the standard by 2012.

More battery. If not, then at least alternative charging methods. GPRS, Bluetooth, Video, Music — all big time battery eaters. Some people resort to carrying spare batteries. Some carry car chargers. Could there be a better way? Well some time back we heard of motionbased chargers that utilise the human body’s natural movements to create charge. So basically run around or go for a walk to charge your phone. Such a device would create power by using motionproduced electromagnetic fields that are harvested, converted to electrical energy and stored. But researchers are scouting for still other ways. Companies like ZTE and Samsung showed off their earth friendly solar powered Mobile Phones at WMC 09.

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