What Features Should Be Included With iPhone 3.0? 606
With the announcement coming tomorrow, Macworld has posted their top list of 15 features they would like to see in an iPhone 3.0 update. The list includes some things that people have been asking for since launch (like cut and paste) and things that were once there but have since been silently removed (like push notifications/background apps). With almost 2 years of time to grow and learn, what other things are woefully inadequate on Apple's popular handheld?
What about ... (Score:5, Interesting)
Pretty easy list (Score:4, Interesting)
-Standard USB data/charging cable
-USB mass storage support
-Video recording
-Tethering
-Multitasking
-MMS
Price (Score:0, Interesting)
and make it open.
Tethering (Score:4, Interesting)
Usable Navigation (Score:5, Interesting)
Google Maps on the phone is useless for actually getting somewhere. It draws a nice line but without turn by turn navigation or even detecting when you're off the path and re-calculating it's no good for driving.
I know it says it's not meant for that but that strikes me as trying to cover up being inadequate with some after the fact documentation and legalese.
Re:What about ... (Score:5, Interesting)
Yes! Bluetooth Serial I/O and I would write all my hardware control interfaces for iPhone.
linked phone numbers in meeting notifications (Score:5, Interesting)
This one drives me nuts. My life is conf calls yet when a call number in included in a meeting invite, IT'S NOT LINKED like phone number are EVERYWHERE else in the phone apps.
Re:Usable Navigation (Score:1, Interesting)
Add to that map caching. Why not spend a couple 100MB of the gigs of storage so I can keep from downloading the same images again and again?
Re:huh? (Score:3, Interesting)
I don't know what girlintraining was talking about, but I'd love to see the whole thing just opened up in terms of installing applications. Give up control. Let me install things straight from the Internet without the store. Stop restricting what applications people are permitted to write.
I don't know if Apple is allowed to do that because of some deal with AT&T. Maybe they're required to take measures to restrict certain kinds of functionality. Still, it's something I'd like to see.
Re:What about ... (Score:3, Interesting)
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Old, but funny
My Wishlist (Score:3, Interesting)
1. A more complete bluetooth stack that does OBEX and A2DP and Syncing.
2. an IChat client.
3. A side swipe like the one in Mail and SMS to delete individual calls from the recents List.
4. Notes Sync with the Desktop.
5. Voice Dialing (ala Voice Commmand on Winmo) would be nice.
That's not a "workaround" (Score:4, Interesting)
Well, that is a workaround
No, a workaround is something you have to do in order to do something the product was not designed to do.
The App Store was designed to work with all of the products you might own, so being able to use the apps on multiple devices is not a "workaround", it's by design.
Stripping out the DRM to give free apps to others is a "workaround"
Re:C&P and Thunderbird support (Score:2, Interesting)
Since the iPhone only supports one Exchange server at a time (that's what mine told me) I changed my work email to IMAP only, and set up my personal Gmail account to the Exchange service and now - all my contacts and calendar are synched.
Also - I found an app that synch's my work Outlook/Exchange Calendar with my Google calendar - so I leave it running on my desktop at work, and everything is automagically synched!
Additional features (Score:4, Interesting)
Additional Features:
1) Flash Player, especially since Adobe's been working on it and stating that it's more so a policy issue. (Policy is what seems to be blocking Flash, TomTom, multi-tasking, and more.)
2) Set WiFi alert time. I mean seriously, you drive through downtown and you can't even use your iPhone thanks to all the wifi alerts. That said, you'd still like to know if wifi is available when you're lounging around somewhere. Let us be able to set the following: a) Alert after 30 seconds of availability (this would eliminate the alerts popping up while driving), b) alert met to open/unlocked networks or ALL networks.
3) File transfer (let me be able to easily move files I want available locally on my iphone). And let me move files from other iTunes manually. Enable disk use (wireless and USB), USB a must and wireless a plus.
4) Dump iTunes. Seriously, talk about specification creep. When a music player now manages movies, television, that's one thing. But when it's your application manager and synchronization tool as well. Apple really needs to launch a new tool, call iLife or what not. Where iTunes would just be one category. I mean, I really hate having to go under music to find my TV shows and apps and such. LAME!!!
5) Ability to print basic text would be nice.
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Re:What about ... (Score:3, Interesting)
> iPhone is all about status/style anyway, it's got NOTHING to do with functionality...
Pffft. I went through two dumb phones immediately before the iPhone. Here are some of the things I could not get working:
1) syncing anything with my PC
2) getting photos off of it
3) playing music, although both claimed to be able to do so
4) using the web, which was useless
5) using any sort of e-mail
6) using any other apps
7) using the picture system with anything else, including the MMS that was built in ($5 charge PER)
Then I got the iPhone. All the problems went away. I browse the internet from anywhere at any time, can get directions without fail, use e-mail, sync everything, and listen to music (which is, a surprise to me, the #1 thing I use it for). I still can't get MMS though, which is ironic but pointless because I can now post the images directly to the web.
The Motorola was $150, the iPhone $200. If you post that this has nothing to do with functionality, I have to conclude that you're a troll.
Maury
Re:A printer! (Score:3, Interesting)
They could repurpose some of the buttons on the device if the screen is currently off. Leave the on/off button doing it's current function ('waking' the screen), and change the home button to play/pause, push-and-hold on the volume up/down changes track, instead of making the volume repeatedly go up.
Er, at least I think the iPhone has a volume control on it. I know the iPod Touch 2G does, and I'd love this to be done for it's controls...
Mail is my filesystem?! (Score:2, Interesting)