The iPhone needs to cost less for it to become a true global tool that is carried in everyone's pocket. Here are five ways the iPhone could shed features and hardware to become cheaper.
1. No Wifi. It wastes the battery, and wifi signals are still not widely available enough to be useful for most people.
2. No Bluetooth. Common phone users will easily get by without the luxury wireless headset. When my grandma hears the word Bluetooth, she's thinking blueberry pie-stained teeth, not wireless tech.
3. No Camera. The iPhone's camera is only 2 megapixels. For the sake of a cheaper iPhone, it would be not be missed.
4. No Accelerometer. There's no need to watch movies in widescreen on a screen this size. No need for the luxury of widescreen cover flow, normal cover flow works the same. No need for viewing pictures in widescreen. How much will people use landscape mode in the iPhone anyways?
5. Make Everything Except the Screen Smaller. Look at all the space to the right and left of the home button. Now ask yourself, does the Home button need to be on the front of the phone? What if they moved it to the side? However, do not shrink that screen, we want all the real estate we can get. How cool would a device that is almost all glass be anyways? It'd be like a miniature HDTV.
