It's not really about a bunch of phone manufacturers and patent holders wanting to build the perfect phone. Rather, it's about consumers actually wanting such a phone. If there was sufficient demand - or indication of it - from consumers, I'm sure some enterprising manufacturer (say HTC) would go out, license every single mobile technology and put it together in a product.
I think it has something to do with humans being reasonably satisfied with close-to-perfection instead of perfection itself.
But what do I know, I still have a Nokia phone that has a monochrome LCD!
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It's not really about a bunch of phone manufacturers and patent holders wanting to build the perfect phone. Rather, it's about consumers actually wanting such a phone. If there was sufficient demand - or indication of it - from consumers, I'm sure some enterprising manufacturer (say HTC) would go out, license every single mobile technology and put it together in a product. I think it has something to do with humans being reasonably satisfied with close-to-perfection instead of perfection itself. But what do I know, I still have a Nokia phone that has a monochrome LCD!