A blueprint for the perfect phone

Features
The DUB would need to provide the right features for as many people as possible. There would be 4GB of on-board memory, enough to store a significant amount of messages, music and third-party software. You would have the option of adding 8GB of external memory via an expandable microSD HC card slot, that alongside the SIM card slot, is easily accessible from the outside.

With that much memory in the DUB you could store a significant amount of music, which is why there's an on-board music player that supports a variety of formats, including MP3 and FLAC. To listen to your music, all you have to do is simply plug a pair of normal headphones straight in to the 3.5mm jack at the top of the phone.

To put music, or any content for that matter, on the DUB you just drag and drop music files straight on to the DUB's music folder, which you access by connecting it to your computer via a standard USB cable.

During music playback you would be alerted of a call and the music would be paused while you answered it via a microphone in the provided wireless Bluetooth (A2DP) headphones.

The DUB also comes with a great camera. Unlike any camera phone to date, the DUB camera would feature a 5-megapixel sensor, auto-focus and use folded optics, similar to Sony's Cyber-shot DSC-T7 camera, to cram in 3x optical zoom.

The camera would also feature a xenon flash like that on the Sony Ericsson K810i Cyber-shot phone, allowing shots to be taken in very low light. Photos could be immediately uploaded via HSDPA (3.5G) to the Web, or sent to friends via MMS or Bluetooth.

You can also connect it to a laptop or PC via a standard USB cable and use the DUB as a portable modem to search the Web on your laptop. If you don't have a laptop with you, you can browse the Web on the DUB's own browser.

The DUB's Web browser would support flash, HTML, JavaScript and XML, combining aspects from Nokia and Opera's Web browser. You could navigate full-sized pages in desktop mode using an overview window and open tabs to navigate to other pages.

At the beginning of this section you might have noticed that I mentioned storing third-party software on the DUB's internal memory. That's right -- the DUB is completely open to developers and an SDK would be available, so that any developer could develop applications and games for it.

The DUB phone would also have a straightforward email client that allows you to access a variety of email accounts, including Microsoft Exchange and BlackBerry. There would also be a very straightforward desktop application that lets you synchronise your phone with your PC, backup all your content and type and send messages from your computer.