It would seem of late that we might be moving toward a process of standarisation of certain things in the Mobile space – if not standardisation, then at least the distillation of a plethora of variants to a main few. Case in point – most charger manufacturers are committing to get to a universal connector within the next five or so years.
So this got me thinking – what else would I like to see standardised?
Well how about these:
(1) headphone connector – an obvious one, but 3.5mm please. If you want to implement fancy extra data controls (or DRM) over the top of this as a superset that’s fine, but nominally, I want to be able to plug 3.5mmm headphones in to any mobile, and hear sound!!
(2) screens – well, classes of screens anyway. I think we can recognise there are some key form factors for devices, and these need different shape screens – but there aren’t that many when it comes to it. Fixing things like resolutions, and a number of standard screen sizes would make life simpler and cheaper all-round, and would mean that visual content (images, video) wouldn’t have to be re-purposed/stretched for several different devices
(3) DRM – standardise to off please, if it’s serving no actual purpose 🙂
But I bet there are some others, and this is where I’d like to hear from the readers – what say you??!