would you take bulky if it had much better specs?

[alangrift]

I like my thin phone. Just get an extended battery or keep charging it all day.

 

[DefDC]

People are already carrying phones that thick with an Otterbox. I would happily take that phone, provided it solves my pet peeves. (and they make it look a *little* nicer)

A STELLAR radio/antennae
I'm near the end of life for my Verizon GNexus. Let me make it clear. I *LIKE* this phone. It's the best I've ever had, but these are the issues that drive me nuts. I've had it with shit radios. I get BLAZING 4G speeds outside. I take a step in a building, right next to the window and it CAN'T WAIT to jump to 1 bar of 3g if I'm lucky. My wife's *&%#ing iPhone has a great signal. It's humiliating.

Battery life
Yes, a few days would be great! I'd like to leave my features on. I use 4G and Bluetooth all day long. Thankfully, I can sit next to a charger all day. Good thing. God forbid I go out for the evening and forget to turn off all the useful things a smartphone does. There's a reason I have 4 spare batteries.

A *LOUD* %$*)ing speaker!
For god's sake. My Droid 1 had an excellent speaker. It's like Samsung's speakers are afraid to speak up. If you pump them up with an app, they sound like crap. Give me something that's ANNOYINGLY loud so it's actually useful for it's purpose. There shouldn't be such a big market for Bluetooth speakers.

Storage
This wouldn't be such an issue if the carriers hasn't ripped away all the unlimited plans. Either provide a SD slot or make it 32gb minimum. 8GB premium phones? In 2013? WTH?

Skins and bloat. (Unrelated, now I'm just ranting)
Make this crap available as launchers and apps available in the app store. Let Google, and Google ONLY, worry about the OS updates. Don't hold my phone hostage because your don't want to lose money updating your feces software on a one year old phone that's already "End of Life". Give us the easy option of easily and completely uninstalling. If your skin or bloatware really that compelling, we'll WANT to keep it. Heck, charge $.99 , and if it's really that great, make a profit.

Edit:
Make it waterproof/dustproof/and ruggedized... Those are already options on other phones. Just make an "un-iPhone" Function over form...

 

[gmaster456]

Yeah that phone looks ugly, you can't get any women with that kind of phone.

If you rely on the looks of a phone to get women you're doing it wrong.

 

[sm625]

If a phone was that thick then it could actually house some respectable camera optics.

 

[Brian Stirling]

If a phone was that thick then it could actually house some respectable camera optics.

Good point ... one of the downsides to the constant drive to make phones ever thinner (eg. flexy bendy iP5) is that it leave too little depth for decent optics. OTH, this is not purely a camera and relying on a phone as your go to camera will usually leave you wanting.

The HTC One I now have is over 9mm thick but because of the curved back it feel much thinner in your hand and in your pocket so going a bit thicker, say 10mm, you'd have a tad more room for better optics and a bigger battery and with that curved back it would still feel slim.


Brian

 

[Bman123]

I thought my note 2 looked big, that thing is a damn brick. If anyone ever tries to rob you, just bash em in the head with your phone and make a clean escape

 

[xeledon20005]

If you rely on the looks of a phone to get women you're doing it wrong.

don't have to rely on looks of a phone to get women, just saying that the phone looks ugly as shit and no women would probaly want to talk to a guy with that phone.

 

[Red Storm]

Give me a phone with Maxx battery life, HTC One speakers, Galaxy's mSD slot, running stock Android and I've found the perfect phone.

 

[pete6032]

if a phone had to look like this in order to accommodate say, a 3 day battery and a superfast, but hot, chip would you still be interested:

http://www.slashgear.com/qualcomm-snapdragon-800-series-developer-platform-hands-on-18286938/

i think i would, even if all it had was a much larger battery, like one that would power my phone nonstop for an entire day of continuous use, so i would be guaranteed to not have to worry about plugging for an entire day

No. As long as I can get a day long charge out of it I'm fine. 99.999% of the time I'm sleeping in a bed next to an electrical outlet where I can charge the device.