What’s The Next Big BlackBerry Feature?

Amit
#1. September 21st, 2007, at 10:58 AM.

Robb,

That’s a good question but to answer it, you may have to take a broader look at the wireless industry as a whole.

What will be the next big mobile phone feature?

scott
#2. September 21st, 2007, at 11:04 AM.

FIRST, it better be a faster network than EDGE.
SECOND, there should be an optional touch screen feature - scrolling with the pearl track ball leaves a lot to be desired sometimes.

William
#3. September 21st, 2007, at 11:22 AM.

The mundane - a stopwatch and a countdown timer (with alarm) so you can set it for the 1 hour of your parking meter.

The cool - a “read out loud” feature where the BB will read your e-mails to you. Could dramatically decrease car accidents.

Ned
#4. September 21st, 2007, at 11:30 AM.

Video conferencing software. Increased bandwidth and data speed will make it possible with the addition of a small camera facing the user.

JEF
#5. September 21st, 2007, at 11:35 AM.

Blackberrys are still under powered.

Dave
#7. September 21st, 2007, at 12:27 PM.

From a corporate standpoint, better document handling and file storage. Most users at my company want a Windows Mobile version of the BlackBerry.

Nik
#8. September 21st, 2007, at 12:36 PM.

Personally the concept of WiFi with VoIP unlimited calling and data is what I’d like to see developed further in the short term. While being not the next revolutionary “blackberry” only feature, I feel it will significantly alter mobile phone usage, as more and more hotspots open up, we (whose with WiFi phones) can rely less on GSM tower voice and data, and more on local 802.11g (let’s hope soon “n”) unlimited faster voice and data. Will we one day see a WiFi blanket overtake GSM as the primary transmitter for mobile phones?

Eric
#9. September 21st, 2007, at 4:44 PM.

Dave said exactly what I was thinking: better document handling. That is one thing I can say about my (brief) ownership of an iPhone is that attachments opened very nicely on it.

sean76
#10. September 21st, 2007, at 7:33 PM.

well, while it may not be earth shattering, I thing a touch screen blackberry will surface sometime in the near future. Along with a much improved Camera (3 megapix)
as well as faster processor’s
for browsing the web! I mean with all this stuff and maybe some improvement in call quality and battery life, you’ll have yourself a super berry! And while like I said, not earth shattering, just all the stuff us berry users would like added to an already great device.

nic
#11. September 21st, 2007, at 7:43 PM.

An sixteen way nav track ball

Higher bandwith

Camera on front

Better media

Html email

New OS

hellno
#12. September 22nd, 2007, at 2:06 AM.

A step forward for BB would be to at least catch up to the level the iPhone is at.

chris
#13. September 22nd, 2007, at 7:13 AM.

They need to have a better way to interact with documents, like work and excel. Maybe a special office sutie for blackberrys.

Mike
#14. September 22nd, 2007, at 10:47 AM.

1. Memory card encryption
2. ability to connect to a projector for presentations
3. streaming video support

Sia
#15. September 22nd, 2007, at 8:25 PM.

My guess would be video telephony. Which I can’t wait for…
I believe the HTC TyTN has an “all-in-one” phone including video telephony.
sia

hotice_
#16. September 22nd, 2007, at 8:44 PM.

HSDPA

jfisher
#17. September 25th, 2007, at 4:20 AM.

Bluetooth 2.1 is going to change everything.

Jason N
#18. September 26th, 2007, at 3:24 PM.

1) More CPU power, this is my first BB and it feels like it’s nearly at it’s limits.

2) More internal bandwidth to handle the faster connections to come in the next few years. It’s all well and good to have wireless broadband, but if there is a bottleneck within the device itself it’s all for naught. We saw this issue with PCs a few years back with the front side bus, etc.

3) Better doc handling, I can already see this will be an issue.

4) Touch screens. I only say this as it may be the only way to go to get a larger, more user friendly screen / viewing experince. Then again, would die hard BB users stick with them if they had a touch screen keyboard like the iPhone? I suspect we’d lose a few folks…