As long as we are speculating on new products, here are some thoughts:
For recreational purposes the QRP IC-705 is great and I appreciate ICOM for inventing it. But QRP is not compatible with deployment.
What is the intended use case for the hypothetical IC-7100/7000??
If it is a front-seat vehicle mobile mount then panadapters and such could be considered visually distracting to the driver. Sure, you can pull over to adjust the radio and folks do mount small base rigs for that purpose, but is the display of the IC-705 really suitable for use whilst driving? I wonder about that.?
I think a new rig based on the IC-905 concept that covered HF, 2M and 70cm would be dandy, at 100W, for a deployable or base rig. Not sure about vehicle.
Oh, here's another random neuron-firing: how about a button for "in-motion" (terrible lable, have to figure out something more concise and cool-sounding) that would? remove the panadapter and most of the other information?and make the remaining smaller text items and meters larger. That would make it suitable for driving. When not in-motion, all the great functionality returns.
Same head unit as the 905 (different firmware, of course) and a different RF unit that would be mounted elsewhere in the vehicle connected by modular connectors. Multiple antenna jacks - UHF for HF and 6m, SMA or BNC or UHF for 2m and 70cm with a setting to assign bands (6M, 2M, 70cm, HF) to any. Maybe four antenna connectors? Further to that, be able to assign ham bands within HF to different antenna connectors to break out 80m or 160m to different antennas.? Put the 4 pin tuner jack on the bottom of the RF unit for external tuners and/or put a robust (up to 10:1) tuner in the RF unit. The 3:1 in the IC-7300 just doesn't isn't sufficient.?
Maybe call it the IC-805?
wish?list item: It needs to support two bands at a time. For deployment my group needs to run a VHF or UHF local Winlink net for tactical unit with forwarding to HF higher-echelon units, so having the radio be able to send and receive on both bands simultaneously. Perhaps two USB connections or one USB connection (preferable) but appear as two different CI-V addresses?
Naturally, it would want to be crammed with bluetooth and WiFi and Ethernet and sub-space communications channels, and support a keyboard and mouse wired or wireless, and have an SD or microSD card to record one or both sides of a QSO and load profiles, and support the remote tuning knob (love that thing) via USB, and be an RS-BA1 server, etc.
Perhaps it could have a mini-HDMI to drive an external monitor. Hmmm... if it did, perhaps it could support audio over HDMI as an audio path destination. That would be a nice capability - send audio to headset, external speaker (need two outputs), and HDMI on a band by band basis.
Wild musings on my part. Sorry.
Kevin Grantham - N5KRG