Over the course of the past few days, something has really hit me when chatting with other mobile addicts and watching visitors walk over to our stand, while I’m perched on a bar stool at our stand: Very few of the people at this conference are using a single device to answer all their needs. The iPhone for web browsing, the N95 for video shoots, the E61 to get that quick blog post done. Pockets bulging with shiny gadgets.

Unquestionably, Mobile World Congress is not a reflection of normality or the average mobile user, and most people don’t have the money, the need or the interest to have multiple devices, but as mobile geeks, we can’t seem to find a single device that ticks every box.

I’m not sure we’ll ever reach a point where a phone does everything we want to to do without being the size of a briefcase or some crazy “Go go Gadget phone”, and if there is such a device, it certainly isn’t being unveiled here this year. Simplicity is compromised by cramming too many options in a menu, portability is hindered by screen or keypad size, and so on…

What would your dream device have and not have?

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