While we're at it, here's my smartphone wishlist:

- Novel radios that enable true Starlink connection in your pocket for gigabit internet globally

- multi-spectrum imaging for spectroscopy and FLIR-like cameras to get temperature info in images

- Light field camera system for true 3D imaging and synthetic refocusing

- Air quality sensor that can also act as breath analyzer

I, also, would like a Star Trek tricorder.

I was going to come in with a set of reasons why these wouldn't sell, but... I think they could! Air quality fits neatly into Apple's health push, though I could see them making that a Watch feature rather than a phone feature (since your phone lives in your pocket, and quality sensors need time for the readings to stabilize). 3D imaging and synthetic refocusing both have a wow factor that would be easy to get people excited about. The only one I'm unsure of is multi-spectrum imaging; while I suspect pretty much anyone on this forum would jump at that, I don't have a good idea of whether the general population would get excited about temperature data. At the very least, it'd be handy for some kitchen tasks where you need a surface temperature.

> Novel radios that enable true Starlink connection in your pocket for gigabit internet globally

Satellite comms gets very close to face melting tech quite quickly, so I would prefer not to have that in a mobile device....

I would like a light field camera. I've seen some research about using and array of 1mm2 cameras (basically the smallest omnivision module) and one decent module to make a synthetic high res camera. Takes a huge amount of GPU power to get not very interesting results though.

Man, the Oneplus 8 I believe had an 'xray' camera that was super cool, until people realized you could use it to 'see through clothes', and so it was disabled. I have to imagine cool camera tech is being held back to some degree by that still today.

> - multi-spectrum imaging for spectroscopy and FLIR-like cameras to get temperature info in images

Restricted by ITAR. You can buy lowres attachments for it on Aliexpress though.

Why do you need a gigabit connectivity on the phone? Aside question: can you tell the difference between 4K and 8K video on the phone without actually checking?

I just want one that will not break when dropped, run all day, and actually be fast on the 5G we've paid for over and over again.