Forget new features, the one innovation needed on phones more than anything else is a much higher capacity battery which isn't physically any bigger.

All the phones that have the latest greatest features have batteries which last maybe one or two days, it's just not good enough. You don't dare use these innovations because you don't want to use the battery up, and even when you do get to an electrical socket, charging can take several hours.

At the moment, the only way to avoid bad battery life is to buy a simple phone or a huge phone. It's Hobson's choice really.

For years the network operators have been REMOVING or CRIPPLING features in the phones they 'sell'. Innovation has never been part of their vocabulary, only revenue.

Quite simply I cannot see the networks even considering anything that doesn't directly and immediately make them money. So anything that could be called innovative WILL fail unless innovation==more profit. Customers will have any consideration here.

Oh what a laugh! If it wasn't quite so pathetic [of the GSMA] it would be almost funny.

Let me see now, is this the same GSMA that has supported the mobile operators in crushing and stifling innovation with their "not invented here" attitude?

Is this the same GSMA that lobbied hard against the EU forcing them to bring down roaming tariffs to encourage (rather than discourage) usage by their customers when travelling?

Could this, even, be the same GSMA that has done nothing to encourage the mobile network operators to introduce Customer-friendly Data tariffs - rather than the cripplingly punitive charges that are applied right now?

Really, the mobile operators are doomed to Voice and Text only, unless and until they create a tariff structure that encourages rather than discourages their own Customers to use their networks for data and when roaming abroad.

I can only speak from my own personal experience, mobile operators are simply not interested in innovative new services.