9 Essential Features in Upcoming Smartphones

Only Touch, No More QWERTY:

Blackberry is the only smartphone that came out with physical keyboard. While RIM is on physical keyboard, other phones based on Android, iOS, Windows Phone are going to be touch based phones with very few of them sporting  physical keyboards. With the upcoming new BlackBerry 10 OS turning the BlackBerryies go fully-touchy, you can say that QWERTY are the thing of past.

Near-Field Communication, Phone becomes Wallet:

Your phone is soon going to transform into your wallet. It sure sounds like a useful technology, especially for people who tend to lose their wallets, misplace cards etc. NFC is surely the future as Google is already ready with Google-wallet and Apple is following this suit by coming up with iPocket for iphone 5.