It must tether or act as a wifi hotspot. Must.

When plugged into the computer, it should work as a remote control for the Zune program running on the computer.

It must be easier to get office files on and off of it… It used to be that I could copy them directly to the micro-ssd… but that is not possible now.

Also, I should be able to upgrade the internal memory when I can afford it by replacing the ssd… why not?

The number of alert sounds are too limited. Beyond that, I need to be able to assign ‘sound profiles’ so that I can assign sounds to situations. I like to have one for each of these times: A normal profile, when I am asleep, one for being quite, and a last one for being silent. Currently, this phone only allows a volume slider, but no alert is appropriate for all situations. Here is a redesign for you: Change the slider to only 5 steps. Each step gets a default volume and alert that would be appropriate for these different environments with different noise level. You can have 5 or so alerts for each of the 5 groups. In the “Noisy Places” environment, you can suggest more crazy alerts. In the “bedtime” environment, you can suggest more pleasant alerts. Etc. If you really want to kick it up a notch, then have the volume level set only in a fuzzy way so that when the phone send an alert, the phone compensates for the ambient noise that it can hear with its mic, but if no-one answers the alert, the volume escalates. That would be sweet.

I should be able to use any app on the phone independent of what else is going on with the phone… other than talking on a call. If this is to work, a hard button on the outside of the phone must be able to pause and resume the player, and maybe a second to switch from the ‘player screen’, the ‘phone screen’, and the ‘front screen’ (being that the ‘front screen’ is either the app chooser or the current app). Again, sweet.