Do Patents Stop Companies From Creating 'Perfect' Products?

Chris M writes "In a recent CNET article, the mobile phone editor writes about what he thinks would make a perfect phone. Unfortunately, as someone in the comments section points out, much of the technology that is used in this concept phone belongs to separate companies. 'I'm sorry to be the Devil's Advocate here, but most of those feautres are patented to separate companies. It would require almost all the major manufacturers [working together] to do this, which is highly unlikely.' Do you think patents are stopping companies from creating 'perfect' devices, or are there other factors at work?"

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[Anonymous Coward]

No, managers and unreasonable deadlines prevent companies from creating "perfect products".

Re:What would be cool

[geekoid]

I might want more RAM, or a faster CPU, or an advanced GPU

golly, gee. I'm thinking you would need to get a new goddamn phone.
The article is about certain features, Clearly certian things would upgrade. Of course if it is perfect at the time you get it, you wouldn't need to change any of that crap, would you. What everyone but you and one other poster know is they mean 'perfect at the moment of purchase.'

See, what you want is a fucking magic phone pixie.

Re:What is "perfect"? Who defines "perfect"?

[tknd]

Qwerty is all you need? You make it too easy. My perfect phone would:

• Be so tiny I didn't have to carry it around. They'd just attach it to my forehead or something.
• When I needed to check my voicemail, the thing would fricken start playing the first message, not go off about how I've got 5 messages in archive that I should delete.
• Would never need to be recharged because it would run off of my awesomness.
• It would automatically get girl's phone numbers for me just by being in the general vicinity of a "hot" girl.
• And when I dialed the number it would do something to my voice and instantly get the girl to fall madly in love with me.
• And when I was, you know, all excited, it would make giant sparks fly out of my ass.
• But for when I was in deep shit, it would shoot out lasers from my forehead!
• For any telemarketer call it receives, it would grab the telemarketer's ceo and punch him in the face.
• Whenever I called some support service about my phone bill, or some other service I need, the phone would automatically bypass the BS automated menu system and put me through to a live human.
• Of course the live human support person would actually turn out to be a hot girl in her mid twenties and have a sweet/sexy voice.
• The storage capacity would make google mail cry: I'd be able to store an unlimited number of mp3s, ringtones, pictures, and videos on my phone.
• I could download the entire internet without any reception therefore avoiding BS data service premiums.
• But because the phone would always have reception (even when it was off or a billion light years away from earth), it would come with internet pre-downloaded.
• I'd own soviet russia on my phone.
• It would shoot lasers at all the insenstive clods that disagree with me on slashdot and other geek websites.
• And I wouldn't need a beowulf cluster because it'd already have the answer to any question before I even ask it.
• It would be called "Overlord 1.0"
• It would erase the number "2.0" from all numbering systems, vocabularies, and writing systems as well as all other stupid buzzwords terms and phrases.