Some wishes for 2015 from the Android fanatics.. courtesy of BGR
5 new features Android fans want to see
Android 5.0 Lollipop added a ton of great features to Android this year, highlighted by its gorgeous new Material Design UI. However, some Android fans on Reddit are already looking forward to 2015 and are making wish lists of features they want to see Google and Android OEMs add to make their favorite smartphones even better. Below, we’ve summarized the most popular suggested features posted to give you an idea of what Android fans really want to see out of Android phones by this time next year.
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- Better battery life. This is a perennial gripe from smartphone users, and it doesn’t seem to have lessened with the launch of Google’s battery-saving initiative “Project Volta” this year. The message here seems to be that Google and Android OEMs should stop trying to compete with Apple to see how much thinner they can make phones and instead work on making phones that are slightly thicker but that deliver more juice. Given that we’re now seeing phones that are literally too thin to support a standard headphone jack, we may be reaching the limits of thinness anyway.
- The death of $600 phones with just 16GB of storage