CNET has been polling readers on the features they want most
in the iPhone 5 ever since we got our hands on the iPhone 4.
That was in 2010.
We're currently at over 40,000 votes, and with an iPhone release
probably just months away, it seems as good a time as any to
count off the top 5 most-wanted features for the iPhone 5, as
decided by you.
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Starting off at #5: wireless charging. Nikola Tesla would be so
proud. I've always dreamed of a day when bolts of electricity
would rip through my house and charge all my stuff. I'm not
alone. Wait. You don't mean those ugly inductive charging
things, do you? I guess that's cool...
http://reviews.cnet.com/2300-6454_7-10002721-9.html
... but I'm more excited about #4. A revamped, slimmer design.
We've been living with this iPhone design for two years now, and
it wasn't even that great the first time. Remember antenna-gate.
Remember when that Apple employee left the prototype at the
bar but people didn't believe it was real because it was so ugly.
Yeah, it's time for an update.
It's also time for iPhone to be 4G. And I'm talking about LTE, not
that rinkydink HSPA+ stuff that AT&T is passing off as 4G. The
iPhone is getting smoked on data speed right now. It's time for
Apple to step up, and that's why 4G comes in at #3.
#2 is longer battery life. Let's face it, this thing has become an
extension of your brain at this point, and when the battery dies,
you can barely function. If Apple can make this thing last longer,
I think the collective anxiety of the whole world will ratchet down
a little.
Now before we get to the #1 most requested iPhone feature, let's
acknowledge one of the rumored features that CNET readers are
furious about: a smaller connection port. The rumors mill is pretty
confident that Apple will finally cut off this vestigial tail left over
from the iPod and go with a new, smaller connection. It could
force you to buy some new accessories, and that hurts.
And finally, the number one feature you want from the iPhone 5:
a bigger screen. Compared to all the giant honking Android
phones out there right now, the iPhone's 3.5-inch screen is
enough to give you an inferiority complex. For something
designed in the USA, this is downright un-American.
So there you go, your Top 5 most-requested features for the
iPhone 5, or whatever Apple is going to call it. For more Top 5s
like these, visit Top5.CNET.com. I'm Donald Bell, thanks for
watching. CNET has been polling readers on the features they
want most in the iPhone 5 ever since we got our hands on the
iPhone 4. That was in 2010.
We're currently at over 40,000 votes, and with an iPhone release
probably just months away, it seems as good a time as any to
count off the top 5 most-wanted features for the iPhone 5, as
decided by you.
Starting off at #5: wireless charging. Nikola Tesla would be so
proud. I've always dreamed of a day when bolts of electricity
would rip through my house and charge all my stuff. I'm not
alone. Wait. You don't mean those ugly inductive charging
things, do you? I guess that's cool...
... but I'm more excited about #4. A revamped, slimmer design.
We've been living with this iPhone design for two years now, and
it wasn't even that great the first time. Remember antenna-gate.
Remember when that Apple employee left the prototype at the
bar but people didn't believe it was real because it was so ugly.
Yeah, it's time for an update.
It's also time for iPhone to be 4G. And I'm talking about LTE, not
that rinkydink HSPA+ stuff that AT&T is passing off as 4G. The
iPhone is getting smoked on data speed right now. It's time for
Apple to step up, and that's why 4G comes in at #3.
#2 is longer battery life. Let's face it, this thing has become an
extension of your brain at this point, and when the battery dies,
you can barely function. If Apple can make this thing last longer,
I think the collective anxiety of the whole world will ratchet down
a little.
Now before we get to the #1 most requested iPhone feature, let's
acknowledge one of the rumored features that CNET readers are
furious about: a smaller connection port. The rumors mill is pretty
confident that Apple will finally cut off this vestigial tail left over
from the iPod and go with a new, smaller connection. It could
force you to buy some new accessories, and that hurts.
And finally, the number one feature you want from the iPhone 5:
a bigger screen. Compared to all the giant honking Android
phones out there right now, the iPhone's 3.5-inch screen is
enough to give you an inferiority complex. For something
designed in the USA, this is downright un-American.
So there you go, your Top 5 most-requested features for the
iPhone 5, or whatever Apple is going to call it. For more Top 5s
like these, visit Top5.CNET.com. I'm Donald Bell, thanks for
watching.
