Ideal phone.

Been thinking about phones recently. Apart from going from none, at the start of the decade to owning three in 2020, they are all pretty much of a muchness. This is a run down of all the phones I've owned with a good approximation of my ideal phone.

Blackberry was like owning an unpopular home computer back in the 1980's something like a BBC Model B with all the support that gathered as well. I know they're ARM now but back in the 80's they were the fail. It's the only phone I've ever cracked the screen of, and predictably fucked it up good.

The only good things about it is that it would connect to a PC with ease and used Micro SD cards for storage so you could grab stuff off it or put stuff on with no problem.

My next phone was my current work phone. This was its replacement and is one of the 1st generation Moto G Motorola phones. It's still works and was used principally as a camera for ages before being demoted to a work phone. It's also the only phone I've ever bought with cash money, the rest were found.

Its kinda like a hermit crab, as its storage is  absolutely stuffed with bugger all room to add new stuff, Largely due to a bloated android system and ill written apps. I wonder if you could run an OS from the memory card. rather than internal storage.

My current phone which is also android but also closer to iPhone in its layout. That stupid SIM card tray and no external storage, but also with a much better camera and a higher operating system.

Finally I had an iPhone 4 which was my work phone for ages, Apple killed support for it years ago and all 32 bit apps have long since been shoahed from the app store. It was a nice palm sized beast even if it did run ios, which required iTunes to sync anything unless its photos. Nice built in apps too.

Ideal phone, then?

Taking the three systems I've owned and breaking them down to essentials, I would part them out as such.

Blackberry. Connectivity to PC.

Android. Wealth of apps and a decent camera.

iPhone. Design and built in apps.

If I was designing an OS, it would go something like this. 

Around 500 MB > 1GB in size. Compact and no bloat whatsoever. Optionally to run from an SD card.

Must connect to a computer without the need for any additional file manager software on the computer behalf. 

A well designed bunch of system apps. This includes a calendar/ diary, basic notebook, world time clock, weather app, internet browser, Camera , text, phone and file explorer. A basic calculator, Sound Recorder and some system benchmarking tools for checking battery life. I really don't want to any Siri or Alexa ok Google type bollocks so it won't be added. 

Mandatory ad blocking system wide and a draconian attitude to app permissions. Think script block but OS based.

A  removable battery and headphone socket would also be mandatory as well.