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What Do You Want In iPhone 2.0?
Ian Lamont writes "The predictions about the iPhone being a bust have so far been way off the mark, but that doesn't mean the device is perfect. Besides the dependence on the AT&T Edge network and the lack of an iPhone SDK, there are a boatload of UI, software and hardware issues that should be addressed in the next-generation iPhone. Some complaints include GPS functionality, allowing iPhones to be used as hard drives, adding RSS support, and turning auto-correct into auto-complete. What would you want to see in the next generation of iPhone?"
It could be like the PSP, once you upgrade the firmware your homebrew stopped working.
But this would do it for me:
1. Native iChat functionality
2. Ability to tether the device
3. Some level of copy and paste.
4. Ability to clear all SMS conversations
That's about it.
Lindsay Blanton
RadioReference.com
GPS functionality? How about moving to this side of Y2K when it comes to cellphone technology first? I don't know, maybe start with MMS?
removable flash memory would be a start.
Hardware keyboard + Unix Apps.
Nuff said...
Have it cost $100 and work with any carrier (OK, that can be after a limited lock-in period say a year or two).
In iPhone2 I want OpenMoko.
The best thing, without a doubt, and desperately wanting.....is drag and drop! Let me drag and drop my music, iTunes is not a good UI for managing a device! Also the ability to play more video audio and video formats like ogg and avi. I think the only way this will happen, is somebody port Linux to this thing........please port Linux! Is there somewhere I can donate $100 to the Linux on the iPhone project?
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Windows Me.
At+T must have some sort of stranglehold on apple for now.. but when thats up.. then i might buy one. But.. by then i'm sure some rip-off version or the newest Linux phones will be out.
"A gentleman never strikes a lady with his hat on." - Fred Allen
I am hoping for Exchange Activesync support. I have several clients who will switch from Windows Mobile-based phones to the iPhone in droves if this were available.
A freakin dingy?
ichat and flash, that's all i ask. (I'm aware that Flash is really up to Adobe)
I came to the datacenter drunk with a fake ID, don't you want to be just like me?
We just went through months and months of iPhone discussions. Then we re-hashed half of those details in the way that the iPod Touch is a little disappointing. A lot of progress has been made in terms of getting unofficial 3rd party apps installed to the device. Do we really have to talk about this already?
Here's the thing: Apple, and Steve Jobs, will do exactly what they want and nothing more. We may get iChat support, we may get video at some point, but we're probably not getting an official SSH client. We're probably not getting VOIP, even though Apple has made obvious their disdain for the cell industry.
Once a product is launched, Apple tends to make small, incremental improvements. I don't see the iPhone 2.0 as a huge step up. In his "Steve Takes Europe" tour, the timelines for a 3G iPhone seem to be pointing more towards the end of next year, not sooner.
Be happy with your iPhone now. I won't be getting one, but that's okay. But I *am* done thinking about the iPhone, because for me it really is short of the mark. I'm in love with the interface, the form factor, and the degree to which Apple was able to think very differently than the rest of the industry. But, Apple's self-imposed product limitations are too annoying for me. It's just not going to be the device I really want.
EVERY phone made today should come with this feature. Many states have or are soon going to have laws that require using a hands-free set to talk while driving (CA's takes effect July 2008). While the iPhone does work with bluetooth headsets, requiring a driver to take their eyes off the road in order to initiate a call is inexcusable. I personally will not be purchasing an iPhone (although I do want one!) until this feature is added.
Yes, please.
All of the above.
To be able to buy it in Canada? At least it should be easy to set the pricing now...
the ability to delete multiple emails at once
I want to be able to change my voice when I call people.
Options must include:
Barry White
Liz Hurley
Megatron
Gary Coleman
Jerry Lewis
R2D2
Bobcat Goldthwait
Herve Villavechaize
Smeagol (post-ring)
I'd switch to AT&T for that.
Just disrupt the deflector shield with a tachyon burst.
Keep the hardware as it is, release an SDK integrated with XCode. It's really a shame to pay so much for hardware and not be able to play an occasional chess game.
Well, I don't have an iPhone myself yet, but there's 1 feature, that (like its predecessor) it MUST have:
It should blend!! (fragile souls: please don't go there)
I mean, how else are you gonna make money off it, reselling it on eBay?
I don't have one so I can't tell them what they are doing wrong. What happens is apparently their face starts pushing numbers on the touch screen while they are talking which then makes the touch-tone sounds. Ugh, so annoying.
It's a piece of shit design if that can't be disabled. I'm thinking there is something you need to push after dialing to deactivate the touch screen. In any case this is a mark against touch screens on phones.
is a hard disk that is at least 80 gb.... or like the new 160.
though it may be fairly hard to do, i want to actually use it as an ipod.... that's when i would buy one.
Those of us who think they know everything annoy those of us who do.
How about the OpenMoko? I figure that they could use $100 to advance development on that hardware/software.
Speaking of which, what does the iPhone have that the OpenMoko doesn't have (or won't have when they do the v2 release)? What needs to be done to get people to choose the OpenMoko over the iPhone?
coding is life
What would actually get me to buy it is an SDK along with acceptance and even encouragement of 3rd party applications.
Changing the UI (among other things) would also be a requirement if they want my cash.
One thing: I occasionally travel to Europe.
There are two reasons I didn't get an IPhone a couple days ago:
The first is "all need landscape entry", as mentioned in the article.
The second is "WiFi Only mode": When out of AT&T, I don't want it to transmit data over the cell network, only on the WiFi. There is "airplane mode" (no net) and "no wifi mode", but there is no "no cell" mode that I was able to find in 15 minutes of trying with a demo unit.
Test your net with Netalyzr
And drop the glass or drop the price of glass repair from $250.
didn't care about the first one, don't care about the rest. But I don't have an ipod ither.
What I really want is a vacation, so that's where my money will go to...
You can't handle the truth.
1) Run it on any cellular network
2) Sync it to Linux (also add iTunes for Linux while you're at it)
3) 3G
Add all that and I'll consider buying it. If not, I'll never buy it.
- SW: Todo list.
- SW: WiFi SIP phone application that I can use with any SIP provider.
- SW: Dev kit. (Partly so I can implement/port these if Apple or "official 3rd party developer" doesn't.)
- HW: HSDPA (3G).
- Service: Wireless sync calendar/contacts over WiFi or Edge/3G.
I was one of the naysayers, but I ended up buying one of the $300 4GB models a couple weeks back to try it out. Now, it's "from my cold dead hands." Web browsing and email on the iPhone are simply leaps and bounds better than what I had on my Samsung Blackjack.
There are 0x40000000 types of people: those who understand 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point, and those who don't.
A modest-size physical keyboard with a supplementary battery would make the iPhone (and iPod touch) a very nice ultra-ultra-portable. I'm thinking something analogous to the LandWare GoType Portable Keyboard or the Stowaway Portable Keyboard that was so nice on the old Palm Pilots. An added battery could boost the iPhone life to 10-20 hours of active screen and data use for a full day's (or long-flight's) use of the machine. Sitting on the keyboard in landscape mode, the unit would work well for email, taking notes, webmail, chat, discussion forums and other text-based editing. (I'd also love to see OmniOutliner on the iPhone).
I know Apple probably won't make this product, but (please, please, please) I hope some third party creates this.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
Mike Lazaridis' view on the 'essence' of the blackberry is that a core team designed and engineered every aspect of the product. The integrated full-picture approach led to the difficult to duplicate product. This seems very close to Apple's design philosophy. In the blackberries it's led to lots of proposed features tested by employees using prototypes. Which ideas were (or weren't) successful is often surprising. So we can list lots of things we think we'd like but hopefully Apple takes their time properly considering and evaluating new features before launching a new product.
I want the following: Note I just bought one for my wife, so I am no expert on the iPhone but here is my list.
1. Java - I can't believe this phone doesn't have it.
2. Flash - It may have it, so if so then remove this one.
3. 3G network speed
4. Ability to buy songs on 3G network.
5. Easy sync with Google applications - Calendar, Contacts etc. It sucks now.
6. Todo list. Perhaps it has one but I haven't found it yet.
7. Warranty if the phone gets damaged.
8. Warranty if the phone gets damaged.
9. Warranty if the phone gets damaged.
10.Warranty if the phone gets damaged.
11. Open up the freaking APIs!!! Then Google et all could write apps that I want on the phone. I understand that Apple doesn't want to "support" API's and they want to be able to swap out whatever they heck they want, but that will never happen in the long run. I wouldn't even mind if they forced every 3rd party app to be written in Java and then they just support the JVM, and can swap out whatever low level crap they want.
The more I learn about science, the more my faith in God increases.
which will enable everything else (short of 3G).
1) SDK
2) Uncrippled Bluetooth.
+++ATH0
If you look at the number of phones that have been sold since the iPhone came out and the future projections, Apple isn't grabbing any huge market share. Windows runs on more phones sold by over an order of magnitude.
How about truly supporting multiple operating systems? Like allowing BSD, Linux, Windows, and Mac users have the same functionality. This doesn't mean that Apple has to provide the functionality, merely make it available (think ipod support for people not using iTunes.) Oh wait, this is Apple....
I will admit I was extremely impatient, yes the OpenMoko looks like it will rock up all the way. But I was carrying a palm pilot, phone and iPod, I needed music to get through work, the calendar to remember anything, and the phone goes without saying. All that and the moko isn't out for the normal consumer yet, not that I would love to code and hack away, I just don't have the time, and the whole point of this device is to say time and make things easier by combining technology......Besides how wonderful would it be to flaunt Linux on the iphone to Apple(the new wanna be Microsoft)? What would be wicked awesome would be getting the Openmoko OS on the iPhone!
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Removable battery
3G
Better data usage control
No lock in to AT&T
Use the contacts on the SIM card
The SIM card contacts issue is a big one.
No sig here...
If you have some innovative ideas. Head on over to IT|Redux and post them as a comment. It|Redux is the organizer of the Office2.0 Conference. This year they gave everyone an Iphone and had special applicatiions made to handle the conference. Next year they will design their own device and the process is on going. They have the money and smarts to do it well.
Help fight continental drift.
That way all of you; GUI-loving, latte sipping, look-at-me look-at-me, yuppies can remove yourselves from the planet.
If we were meant to be high tech we would have evolved to have cups attached to our ears, and strings between us...
Have a rotten iDay.. Ohh wait, is that trademarked too?
So we can make our own decisions about what code it runs, who it get service from and all the other things they want to lock away from us. (Yes I know about OpenMoko and will be taking a close look at it when it gets past v1.uhoh.
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
There is only one change that matters for a cell phone: dump AT+T.
Verizon and All-Tel are rated #1 in customer satisfaction every year, and what does Jobs do? Go with the company rated LAST in customer satisfaction. With that choice, he made a statement about his touch with consumers: it's gone.
Being able to install on an iPhone is a feature lacking in OpenMoko. iPhone is just hardware. Hardware doesn't care. If OpenMoko won't run on it, then fix your OpenMoko.
The first version should have had it... In Europe it is standard for even low-end phones nowadays. What good is a phone with a great browser, a great screen and an excellent interface if it takes me forever to see ther frontpage of slashdot...
If I get a convergence device like this I want it to be able to legitimately replace my iPod. Not one of those dinky little Nano things that can hold a couple of albums either, a proper iPod. Especially since they've pushed into video more heavily.
This means that I'm going to require it meet the (modest by today's standards) requirement of at least 20 GB of space that was their top of the line 2nd Gen. Moving it up into something far more current would be nice (I barely have enough room now) but until I can fully replace my iPod with an iPhone I don't see a reason to go with it.
Want to really make it a worthwhile purchase? While third-party software is a complete necessity a Palm emulator (even if it's not available on the CD) would bring in a ton of good applications even if it would be missing the massive benefit of functional pen input (though Graffiti 2 was a distinct step backwards).
1. Ability to be a bluetooth modem.
2. Terminal
2.5 SSH client
3. On screen ESC, Ctrl, and | keys
4. Flash
6. XCode SDK
Hardware keyboard
Funny, the lack of a software keyboard or renewed form of Jot was the reason I never purchased a Treo.
After you use a virtual keyboards, and you find that it changes to symbols that make sense for the context you are in... I never ever want to go back to a real keyboard. Even desktop keyboards I find annoying in the rigidity they offer, especially when playing games.
UNIX apps? Already got 'em.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Without a native SDK, Adobe is pretty helpless in offering Flash. Bitch to Apple, not Adobe.
Hell, I'm still waiting for iPhone 1.0 to give me a blow job. For another $600, iPhone two better come with a twin.
-Rick
"Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
I bought a P800 a few years ago, the first cool phone that can do everything ...
well, not really. I was so stupid and bought the P990 a few month ago, and if i ever
meet somebody from Sony again i hope he will wear flameproof underwear.
In .de a lot people complain that they want a phone, nothing else. I want a phone that can do everything, but back to topic.
- FREEDOM! I want to be able choose the carrier, the software, everthing. This is my biggest concern about the iphone right now. I bought the Pxxx phones because it's not some M$ crap, and i now there is a big library of 3rd party software.
- gps, i already use it on my P990 with an external gps device and this is so usefull.
- 3g, i have it already and there is no way i will go back.
- RAM, my phone lacks of RAM, dunno how the iphone is. Multitasking?
- speed, i don't want to wait seconds until an application starts.
- Keys, you can't play games without proper keys, thats my experience with the P800. A dpad with 2 or 4 buttons on the other side.
- SIP/skype/whatever client, very usefull when you have wlan and you are or have to call other countries.
- External storage, like sd-cards. (and i hope they will not invent something like iCards like sony with the memorystick duo)
disclaimer: i never touched an iphone, this is based on what i read.
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I was struck by how stupid most of the 15 things listed in the ComputerWorld article were and how the list seemed to be a big confabulation of every complaint we have ever heard about the iPhone. Don't we know enough already to steer clear of any article that starts with "15 things..." or "10 great ways..."? :-)
Several of these "things to fix" are things that only third parties can accomplish, several more require entirely new hardware, and most of the rest are already slated to appear when Leopard comes out. At the very least, the article could differentiate between things requiring new hardware, and things that could be 'fixed" on the original iPhone.
For software related issues, it's hardly worth talking about until Leopard is out as it's pretty clear at this point that the iPhone was originally intended to be released in a post-Leopard world and is not "all that it was meant to be" at the moment. For hardware related stuff, GPS, G3, better camera, and second camera are too obvious to really mention (over and over again).
Ho-hum (yawns)
-Please, please, please give us iChat, even if only through WiFi (that way the carriers don't lose too much business). I'm not even considering buying one if it doesn't have iChat. I can live without videoconferencing, but it would be trivial to add, so... -Ability to install any 3rd party applications, including Skype and SIP software. Not considering buying one as long as I have to hack it to install stuff on it. -As long as it doesn't get a lot more storage (over 40 gigs), it won't replace my current (60gb) iPod, so I still would have to carry 2 devices. -Being able to use all your songs as ringtones should be a given. My understanding is that the music majors don't want that to happen, but then why can I do it on my 2-year-old Sony Ericsson? -GPS would be kind of nice, sort of, but I can live without it.
Hello! I'm a disaster waiting to happen!
It isn't hard at all.
Freedom.
You already have a powerful embedded OS and a decent input system. Sure, some extra default apps might be nice; but it doesn't really matter.
Let us use our hardware without playing your damn lockdown games and we'll make the device what it ought to be.
(Note to Apple apologists and fanatical corporatists: I acknowledge Apple's right to lock down their device however they want; but It'll be a cold day in hell before I buy one.)
I'd like less hype. I can't even get one in my country, and I've been swamped with this crap.
I drag and drop my music... in iTunes.
I find the music I want in my library, drag it to the iPod icon on the side, and drop.
You can do that, you know. "Syncing" is only optional.
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
I don't need a lot of stuff. I would never use GPS or IM.
What I want is a video camera and stereo bluetooth support for playing music.
Of course a video camera would need more capacity like 32GB or more. Who would not want a cheaper price and more storage?
How about a microscopic explosive device, which is implanted into the skull of an iPhone 2.0 consumer upon use. Once a sufficient amount of people have been "tagged", we press the big red button back at HQ and watch in glee as everyone stupid enough to pay such a ridiculous price for a telephone dies a very messy death.
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
I bought one after the price drop. I'm seriously considering going back to my Treo 650. I'm totally flabergasted that the iphone hardware supports the 2.0 Bluetooth Standard and only the Headset profile is turned on. I totally understand what people are talking about now, when they say Apple is a control freak with their Kit.
It's almost like they haven't been able to make using Bluetooth "Apple Easy" so they just don't turn it on.
This Sig. is False.
0. Verizon, or preferably carrier-independent
1. More OSX apps
2. Pocket Quicken
3. GPS
4. Bluetooth keyboard compatibility
5. Combo stereo headset/microphone for mp3s or phonecalls.
6. Bluetooth sync
7. More memory. 80GB should be fine.
8. Development kit (or development tools with XCode/Mac).
Basically I need it to be equal to or better in functionality to my 4-year-old Treo 650.
Well, there's only a million billion possibilities, but some highlights:
1) Haptic response (specifically for the keyboard)
2) Stereo bluetooth
3) Swappable battery
4) Geolocation (GPS, AGPS, tower triangulation, celestial navigation for all I care)
5) Non-AT&T
6) Use accelerometers for more than just view rotation...maybe press and hold home button for pan and zoom
7) Video recording
Most of these could be (or *are being*) accomplished with:
8) SDK for third party drivers/applications (solves 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and maybe 7)
and maybe:
9) open source core drivers/applications (keyboard, Bluetooth stack, video) to kickstart #8
Some of us want to do work with the thing. Not even considering to buy until it serves a purpose.
I know about that, but I want to have a folder named "Songs from Prom" (just and example...haha) and then drop whatever songs into that folder, not playlists and not after iTunes allows me. I wanna file browse in Windows, Linux, Mac OS X with or without iTunes.
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Actually there are a lot of external battery packs already for the iPod, that also work with the iPhone (though you might want to check for compatibility to be sure).
It would be cool if they would support external Bluetooth keyboards, but really if they'd just support rotated keyboards in all applications that would be plenty good enough for me.
What would be cool is an external keyboard that also displayed keys dynamically, but on a larger scale...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
is the ability to SMS groups and multiple people.
And copy and paste function would be nice along with the tilting/sideview for the email function like safari.
Any one have any solutions for the SMS problem? I hear you can use websites, but you gotta pay. What a pain...
1) the ability to send a text message to more than one person at a time. If I'm meeting 7 people at the bar, I don't want to type & send "I'm at the bar, I got us a table in the back" 7 times.
2) the ability to forward a previously-sent text message to someone else.
3) drag-and-drop song/video transfers from iTunes (which is how iPods already work...I drag-and-drop songs from iTunes to my wife's 2nd-gen iPod nano all the time, so why can't I do the same thing with my iPhone?!).
4) the AutoCorrect functionality to be reversed - if I want to use the suggested word, I select the popup. Right now it's the other way around, which doesn't make sense.
5) the ability to change the order that in which phone numbers show up for a contact - for example, if I want "Work" to show up before "Home", I should be able to press "Edit" and move them around, the way I can move songs within an On The Go playlist.
6) to be able to specify which alerts I hear for new text messages, new e-mails, etc..
7) better native Gmail support.
8) a headphone jack that accepts most headphone cables without an adapter (seriously, would it be so bad to make the diameter of the recess in the case a few millimeters bigger?)
9) the damn thing to work with my Griffin iTrip Auto. Why is it incompatible? Was it necessary to make the iPhone's dock connector function differently than the iPod's, at least as far as audio output is concerned?
10) the option to turn off specific aspects of syncing...for example, I want it to sync contacts, calendar entries, songs, videos, and always backup e-mail & text messages, but I'd prefer to manually sync photos (I don't use the camera feature very often, so it's annoying to have iPhoto popup everytime I sync).
Unless there's something I don't know (which is very possible), I think these are all pretty reasonable requests that could easily be fixed in the next version. Hell, a lot of these are software-related and could be fixed for this version. I've never sent or received an MMS, but I see a lot of people calling for this functionality, so I guess it would be nice if they threw that in too.
As far as improvements, I'd love to see GPS & 3G. I know, I should join the club.
Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.'
The iphone just came out this summer - can't we just live in one generation at a time?
I haven't tried 7.4.2 yet, but as of 7.4.1, drag & drop of music wasn't working for me. I had to make playlists and sync those to get the music on the phone. Perhaps I'm missing the magical modifier key?
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obviously it needs a cupholder, everything new and shiny does, damn, my $499 laptop brought a retractable one, and the iphone initially cost just as much or more!
I got my iPhone last night, I was upgrading from a 4 year old sony erickson model (free with activation), so it is quite the upgrade. However after running it through a few things over the period of about half a day this is what I'm surprised isn't there.
No support for dragging/dropping a song/movie in iTunes. This was strange since I've been doing it for ages on an iPod. I now have to create a playlist, add my songs into that playlist, then sync the playlist to the iPhone. Too many steps in my opinion to add a few songs. Please make the behavior similar to the iPod.
Would like to have support to delete multiple emails at a time, and an option to delete all the emails in the trash at once. For some reason when adding my gmail account it loaded up all of my emails for the past 3 weeks (around 300) so I had to go and manually delete each of them. I'm not sure why it loaded so many as I had most of the conversations archived on my gmail account and there weren't many in my gmail inbox when the iPhone started retrieving them.
There has been some strange behavior connecting to WiFi routers. At my home it could see my network, and I typed my password since it was locked. After trying, the iPhone said it could not connect. After trying multiple times I ended up changing the security on my router to WEP from WPA and it worked. However my friend had the opposite problem and changed it from WEP to WPA and it did work for him. This could be a router issue, but I don't understand why my iPhone had problems when my mac didn't connecting to the same WiFi.
If you are talking to someone on the phone you cannot edit contact information. This is a pain since sometimes I am getting a new address or phone number that I need to add while I'm talking on the phone to someone. Wish this would be implemented.
Other than that I've been impressed with quite a few features I've stumbled across. I'm sure I'll find other things I'd like updated but I've only had it for less than a day.
No, you gotta play tricks to have things setup the way you want. I mean I gotta setup my computer to have the files in a way that makes sense to me, then I gotta configure iTunes and then I gotta configure the iPhone, good crap on a stick aren't these technologies suppose to be saving us time?
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I want a port that my cock will fit into, complete with vibration function.
Pong. Multi-touch Pong. Two players, on one screen. No question about it.
Also:
1. The ability to delete a screenful of emails at once.
2. Bluetooth headset battery level display in menu bar.
3. Ability to turn off EDGE roaming. (This will be in 1.1.1, so I hear.)
4. Higher resolution!! 160dpi is just enough to make me wish it were 240dpi..
5. Voice-dialing, 3G, GPS, 32GB, WHUXGA, and WTFOMGBBQ!
-Ben
Weeks of coding saves hours of planning.
MMS is for cavemen that don't have phones that can support email. MMS seeped up from the technical limitations of phones ages ago, as a specific standard to get images to people in a primitive time. Can't we all move on?
Plus I can email anyone a photo, you can't necessarily MMS just anyone.
Why not ask for video capture instead? That makes a lot more sense.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
iPhone 2.0 Marketing Requirements List
- 0.2 TB music+video storage
- built in voicemail
- water resistant to 100m
- runs Ubuntu in a VM (use simultaneously with phone)
- 3 meter diagonal 1080p color laser-projection video display
- GPS maps
- PS2 emulator in a VM
- Gbit ubiquitous wireless internet $10/month
- DVR and satellite receiver
- Radiothermic generator 25 year lifetime
- 1 KW pulsed laser personal defense system
- built in 50 W floodlight (refocus the video projector)
- 30% smaller
- tungsten/titanium reentry-rated case (up to 3000 deg C / 100G)
- personalized wrap-around graphics on the case, from a JPG
- price point is $300
"I drag and drop my music... in iTunes."
../iTunes/* directory? If it does, that sucks to chew up unnecessary HD space or cause you extra effort managing the files.
Doesn't dragging your media into iTunes and then dragging it to your iPod create two instances of the file. One where it is and one in the
1. Streaming Internet Radio (FM just sucks)
2. A supported SDK (which will encourage more applications of all varieties)
Ability to SMS multiple parties with a single message .mac) to secure wi-fi connections
Better support for keyboard use while orienting the phone horizontally
-Should be able to use the keyboard this way for emails especially
-Should be able to view more of the usable screen when held horizontally (maybe make keys a little squatter)
Email needs to have fewer temporary lockups especially when deleting using POP
Easy method to open web pages in another window
Don't reload a web page everytime I come back to the browser and have multiple windows open
Autoload my stock/weather apps when my email is checked
Better memory of preferred wireless networks (would be nice to be able to order which networks to attach to first)
Hosted VPN solution (maybe part of
GPS of course
Wireless sync of calendars with Google calendars
Add some good games
I dunno, there should be a "no-nonsense" guide to Apple products, guides that do not have marketing integrated into them, also a list of known frustrations and "work-a-rounds" for those frustrations.
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Duke Nukem forever
My theory is, they'll release the SDK along with Leopard and try to make Leopard a premiere mobile development platform.
Probably just a fantasy, but it sure would be nice.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
1. embedded Light Saber
2. replicator chip
3. Anti-gravity chip
4. isolinear optical chip
The rest, iPhone already does it all.
I do not know. Jobs hasn't told me what I want yet but as soon as he does it will be great!
Windows Me?
F U.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
1) iTunes to not tell me my iPhone is corrupt and reformat the f---ing thing every time I try to sync.
2) The iPhone to not lock up for 30-45 minutes when I try to unlock the thing.
3) The iPhone to not tell me that it cannot find an Edge network when the bright blue E is laughing at me from the corner of the phone.
Now improvements I'd like on the iPhone:
1) The ability to take any song I legally own DRM free (i.e. MP3s I ripped from my own CDs) and make 'em ringtones. Come on...I understand the business model behind NOT doing it, but PLEASE??? My WINDOWS phone could do it.
2) Remove icons from the home menu (and add replacements). I'm not overly wealty, all my money went to the iPhone, I don't need a "stocks" button mocking my inability to save money.
3) How about having the wallpaper actually SHOW UP sometime other than when I'm unlocking the phone. That's not a wallpaper, it's a photo op.
3) I want the ability to download an MP3 or picture from Safari and save it to the iPhone for review/playing later. If I get a podcast I want to download it straight into the iPod portion of the iPhone. If I find a JPG on Safari, let me make it someone's picture or my wallpaper.
4) I love the voicemail interface...why are the other interfaces so clunky? Why must I delete e-mails one at a time? No delete all? No multi-select? Huh??? This is GUI 101 stuff.
5) I'd like EVERYTHING to be able to go widescreen (most spefically e-mails) rather than just Safari and iPod
6) MORE MEMORY 8GB is for n00bs (used ironically as I can't stand l33t sp33k)
7) A more realistic battery life indicator. Thing's like a gas tank...somehow I'm at 80% for two days but then it goes from 20% to powered off with no hope for life in 5 minutes. WTF????
8) Better iPod interface...how about a simulated clickwheel on the touchscreen? The current iPod interface...not so much
9) MMS Please
10) 3G. But that's more AT&T than Apple. And having had T-Moble for a year...I'll stop bitching about how bad AT&T is now. I cried because I had no shoes...
11) A bluetooth headset that's not $100 freaking dollars.
12) Built in games. With an icon on the home menu. Come on...solitare at least?
1. Voice dialing and Voice commands. Why not allow me to boost control other features of the phone by voice.
2. Play music and or other audio through a bluetooth headset. Not just through bluetooth headphones. I wish I could listen to my sprint TV through the blue tooth headset.
3. Not on AT&T
4. Hight speed access.
5. tethering by cable and bluetooth.
6. bluetooth syncing.
7. SDK.
8. Allow you to use it mass storage.
9. Allow you to use it as a display for your iPod Classic.
10. Support UWB USB.
11. Sync calander and notes with Google Calander and Notes.
12 Sync bookmarks with Google.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
Without the ability to build native applications for it, it's not even on my radar.
- HSDPS for speedy connectivity, like our fantastic wireless broadband laptop cards (way better than 3G) - 3MP or greater auto focus camera with optical zoom And the world will like these things.... - A2DP wireless bluetooth because wires are tangly poos - 10 preset zoom levels for the (Safari) web browser and other zoomable apps (on screen buttons labeled 1 to 10 to jump to your fav zoom level) - An improved on screen keyboard is not required as it won't be long before a 3rd party produces a wireless or wired external tactile keyboard embedded in a nice case - I have some other original ideas but may just keep them too myself as they may be to hot to give away...
O'WONDERWe're working on it.
1. user accessible battery
2. network independence
3. SDK or at least a scripting language ported with access to all functions, camera sms, and even be able to script what happens if XY calls.,,,
Then I would consider one. Why ?
Well I went with the e65 Nokia, a very nice (I thought) business phone with a close to iPhone price tag (at least here)
but nokia lately puts crap out
-Nokia dropped voice dial tags (seems in all 3rd gen S60 - you cannot record them, but now there is voice recognition that does not work at all - saying Cristina would turn the phone off, "home" would turn the radio off, while "Carlos" would dial "Dindi SIP number" )
-Nokia does not support his phone
If iPhone had something like this, I would complain
My bad. Dreaming of an iMac Touch. Now that would be hot.
O'WONDERWe're working on it.
As someone who truly loves my iPhone this is a great way to end a Friday, making a wish list, here goes:
1. 3G (duh!)
2. some clever way to cache those wi-fi username/password webpages
3. a harder case, to avoid scratching and breaking on drops
4. video calls (don't care if this is "iChat" or over the carrier's net)
5. a way to fresh the web page in safari without having to scroll back to the top of the page
6. locations aware (GPS or cell-tower location based info)
7. sync to outlook notes
8. other carriers!!!! / unlocked phone
9. better 3rd party app support
10. a iPhone nano version, cheaper, smaller, more mass market (duh! like apple isn't going to do this!!)
11. better camera; video/sound capture
12. a stock app that isn't 20 mins delayed (come on, can't we get past this silly 20 min delay)
13. integration with back-end carriers mins left in plan (*646# is kind of silly)
14. more memory
15. ability to rearrange icon (decide what's in the dock)
16. ability to control roaming
17. voice-over-wifi like the t-mobile offering
18. native Exchange integration to sync calendar, etc. over the internet
19. full sync over the internet
20. bottle opener...
and with #20, off to open a beer.
have a nice weekend,
sammy, with iPhone
I want the ability to turn OFF all phone and data capabilities and use the iPhone purely as an iPod. That way, if you travel abroad, you can still use your iPhone for entertainment without getting slammed with heavy fees due to it constantly going out to check for voice mails, text messages, and so on.
Only as a last resort would I every buy a device that I have to hack to install custom software.
Stop fighting the customer, and let customers run software as they please.
Cut and paste?! I use it all the time on my blackberry.
;-P )
Wireless sync (unless it's already in now
GPS. Maps is an awesome app, but I have had several cases where I was traveling and didn't know where the heck I was and had someplace I needed to be. GPS alone would be enough incentive for me to buy the next one. A 'directions from here' button would be sweet.
.. sucked.
I'm so glad I still have my old Palm III, Graffiti 1 was good. Although I'm quite fond of the Fitaly keyboard now.
I want $600 instead.
Since AT&T doesn't cover where I live, I guess I'd have to say compatibility with another carrier. Until then it could offer unlimited free music and movie downloads and it'd still be useless for me.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
These would be nice to roll out to corporate users, but these requirements are a necessity.
Full exchange support - imap is not enough.
EVDO this implies a verizon version of the iPhone exists. Companies have big cell phone contracts, typically with one cell phone company. Starting a new corporate account with a different service provider for one phone is not an easy sell.
User replaceable battery - one big DUH. When your average CxO decides to talk on his phone all weekend, it is a nice thing for him/her to carry an extra battery.
-ted
1. Built-in Keynote, with VGA quality video out
2. GPS
3. Apple-authorized 3rd party apps
4. Bluetooth keyboard capability
5. Java
6. Bluetooth stereo headset
7. Voice dialing
8. Flash
9. EDGE is fine, but more speed would be nice--but only if it doesn't compromise size or battery life.
I was struck by how stupid most of the 15 things listed in the ComputerWorld article were and how the list seemed to be a big confabulation of every complaint we have ever heard about the iPhone.
I was struck by many things on that list, but not because I'd heard them ad nauseam. I was struck by it because of the number of problems I didn't even know existed.... You can't sync with Bluetooth? No iChat? Can't be used as a hard drive? I'm surprised to have learned this, and I'm VERY glad I opted for an N95 right about now.
Several of these "things to fix" are things that only third parties can accomplish
Well then, good luck on that! Since there's no native SDK for third parties, you may be waiting a while :D That one's also on the list BTW...
I have not purchased an iPhone for one reason: Lack of Linux support. If Apple will open it up so that the jpilot team (or some other team) can get support locked in, i'll buy one. until then - no way.
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Better Mail.app integration
Keep my folders and rules synced with Mail.app, and keep track of which messages I've read whether I did it on the iPhone or on my MacBook.
Select, Delete, Copy, and Paste
Other people have said it but this would be huge.
Open a bookmark folder in 'tabs'
The ability to open all of the pages (or RSS feeds) in different tabs is a great feature of the desktop Safari, and should be carried over to the iPhone's Safari.
Consistent handling of orientation
For some reason, sometimes tilting the iPhone changes orientation from portrait to landscape, and sometimes it doesn't.
As much as possible, it should behave the same way, regardless of context.
I agree: for most of us, we won't ever have the time to hack on the OpenMoko.
That being said, even if we aren't going to do development work, by buying Apple's hardware we're supporting Apple, not those people producing open hardware. If the iPhone were being sold at cost, it would be a different story, but I'm pretty sure that Apple is making a pretty penny on the hardware.
This is why all us geeks on Slashdot should:
Buy the OpenMoko -- it's got open-specs on the hardware and software.
Buy AMD chips -- AMD (unlike Intel) is cooperating with the LinuxBIOS project.
Speak with your money: support those who support FOSS.
coding is life
Besides the more useful tactic of sending suggestions to Apple, a publicly accessible bug/wish list is taking shape at iPhoneBugList.com. There are plenty of other places for this information, too, but I suppose the day isn't complete without a few iPhone stories on /..
Less advertising and fewer fan boys. Anything that makes me have to hear anything more about it would be nice.
It's just a phone and bad mp3 player since iTunes is required.
User-replaceable battery. 'Nuff said.
Bruce Lane, KC7GR,
Blue Feather Technologies
Press a button, get $100!
my laptop is a AMD, but the built in wireless card is broadcom and is a beast to get running with Linux, I know I am a hypocrite when I buy anything Apple and at the same time try to support Open Source...BUT I did buy a FireFox Hat from the mozilla website, and I get free stickers with it! What I hope to see is that one Open Source OS can load onto EVERY piece of hardware that can be ran by software, so that if I hook up a crazy cool mp3, toaster, tv remote, into my computer the (let's say)Linux OS can tell what it is and give it the Linux kernal that can run on it and take advantage of all the hardware is physically capable of!
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1. is the subject, because I've found a remote ssh client to be indispensable.
2. SIP Client
3. A provider other than AT&T. I use T-Mobile, because that's the only carrier with decent signal at my house (no, I'm not out in the boonies....Sprint and Verizon had great coverage here before Hurricane Isabel took out their shared tower....the new one is just far enough away that the signal is too weak for inside use)
I'd buy one if numbers 1 and 3 were fulfilled. Right now, I'm using a T-Mobile Wing, and am not overly impressed. To me, Windows Mobile has regressed in many ways going from version 5 to version 6....it's certainly a lot more unstable.
Actually turning off when it's supposed to would be a pretty good change.
Bluetooth is crippled, cannot transfer the address book and headsets only work with the phone function and no ipod support for bluetooth or bluetooth headsets.
3G for me to be interested. I was really disappointed. We've waited for some time in the UK to get the iPhone. I had assumed that being Apple it would be a premium product. The pricing is. But the product doesn't have 3G, even years after 3G has been available in the UK. I've never had or wanted a mobile phone. Recently been thinking getting one, so held out for the iPhone, but no 3G, no sale.
If the iPhone gets 3G I will get an iPhone. Don't talk to me about Wifi, its not the same and for the needs I have it won't cut it.
3G (or better) or nothing.
A proper SDK is also required. There are apps in my head that would be perfect for the iPhone but which I don't envisage being possible without an SDK.
A GPS (or location based on GSM tower transmitter sector triangulation) option would be very useful too.
The ability to install third party apps, like just about any other smartphone EVER would be good.
Decent (3G) connection would also go a long way, replaceable battery, SIM...
The thing is locked down it's ridiculous. But people stillbuy them...
Only if you allow it to. You can un-check the option that allows iTunes to manage your files, so they stay in the same places and no duplicates are made.
Personally, I drag files into iTunes, and then delete the originals.
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
1. Bluetooth synch 2. Better volume control 3. Configurable double-tap home button (said to be in next firmware update)
Christ-in-a-sidecar, give us PIM search and copy/paste.
BTW, watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXgsQhiGeag (mostly because it pokes fun at the slightly-creepy iPhone tutorial dude, but also because it's actually a smart copy/paste implementation)
Apart from that, flash in Safari, a spreadsheet, PDF reader, Chess, internet radio, and RDC/VNC clients would be nice. Of course, 3rd party apps already gave us a dictionary, iChat, ssh, etc so those other apps can't be far behind.
If we're talking hardware changes, all I really want is a GPS (everyone bitches about 3G, but there's no coverage for it where I am anyway).
I'm sure this is redundant but none of the high mode posts had it and it's hard to read 200 posts just to avoid a "redundant" mod, but the biggest missing feature is movie support. It's kind of a bizarre ommission to me given Apples love of multimedia and the fact that most cell phones with a camera support movies. My last PDA I bought three years ago had a movie clip function. I'm fairly sure it'll be added in 2.0 but it was odd to see it missing from the launch given the cost of the phone. A lot of the requests are a little nitpicky but there are some things needed. I'm fairly sure the SDK issue will be addressed within the year since iPhones are here to stay. Memory is the single biggest complaint to have especially with movie support. For anyone complaining about needing 80 gig for their music collection ya might want to not complain so loud or the pirate squad will come knocking. Movies can suck down memory faster than anything though. I hear the 16 gig is coming out before the end of the year which gives me hope there may even be a 32 gig on the horizon. 16 gig is adequate but 32 gig would make me very happy. A lot of the issues seem more about tweaking a first generation device. With the price drop I think most of the harshest criticisms haven't really panned out and anyone would have to consider the iPhone a solid success. Having other service options would be a major one to me and more plans but it's a solid product and I kind of missed the window since I had to replace my phone just before they came out so I'm waiting until the next generation to break my contract.
The missing A2DP functionality means that my nice Motorola S9 headphones will answer the phone, but won't play music. I bought an Oakley "icombi" to resolve that, and now it plays music fine. Of course, for some reason, the phone will no longer ring through. Perhaps some additional fiddling is necessary.
Otherwise, I'm very happy with my iPhone.
-Hope
To note even be aware that it exists.
don' want no steenkin' GSM. I work for a company whose wireless division is CDMA based. the GSM guys don't pay me anything. I want iPhone on OUR network.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
are you kidding? i admit i just skimmed through some of the responses, but i'm shocked that more people aren't screaming for MMS??! yes, i know how to use email as a workaround but come on..... having to tell all your friends to send pictures and such as an email just because you have this special phone that cost $400 that can't do picture messaging natively is a little much.
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add to that in order of preference:
LET ME USE THE DAMN RINGTONE MAKER W/OUT having to buy the song from itunes and paying an additional
native ichat
give me data storage option
video capture
share internet connect. with laptop via wifi
bluetooth / wifi send/receive files with other iphones and/or computer
i believe all of those can be accomplished through software updates, so lets get to it.
And make the works coolest TV remote control.
keyboard
firewire
USB jacks
audio I/O jacks
built-in THX certified stereo speakers
optical drive
giga Ethernet jack
PC Card slot
DVI out
"The predictions about the iPhone being a bust have so far been way off the mark"
Really. Is that why they gave up $200 of profit on every phone after just two months? Not even Microsoft dropped the price of the Zune with such speed and percentage.
When the iPhone hype has completely died down, Apple has a LONG way to go to make a dent in the mobile market. They're learning the hard way that the only mobile carriers that will play ball with them are ones that have nothing to lose. The top guys, Verizon, Vodafone, they will never share money with Apple. AT&T was losing such ground to Verizon quarter over quarter that they pretty much had to find any device that would stop the bleeding, even if that meant giving sub fees to Apple.
and the drivers to support it so i can plug in a keyboard, camera, printer, or any other USB device using the standard cable.
... buttons?
I'd like to see the ability to handle password-protected PDF, Word, and Excel docs. Mainly because I used Passwords Plus on my old Treo, and I still want a decent replacement (even a password-protected page in Notes would be enough). And I would like to see a small LED under the glass somewhere towards the top of the device, so I can see at a glance if new mail or voicemail has arrived. I'm not concerned about the lack of tethering. EDGE sucks for that, anyways. The keyboard's pretty good, though I had to get used to it.
If real GPS functionality could be added without costing me battery life, that'd be a great addition. Same with 3G. The battery life on mine has been terrific, and I don't want any new features that'll cost me any of it. I had a CDMA Treo - I know about crappy cellphone battery life.
-- Josh Turiel
"2. Do not eat iPod Shuffle."
That's my #1 desired feature. Apple demands that we genuflect to the altar of awesome for a phone that has:
1. A non-replaceable battery. Fine that the battery's got a lot of cycles. How's that help people who take trips and carry a spare battery because they don't have a charger free?
2. Exhorbitant repair costs. More than half the cost of the phone to replace the glass.
3. Crippled bluetooth
4. Low volume.
5. Lack of basic features like searching contacts. Or SMS, so we can talk to our friends who aren't enlightened enough to have an iPhone.
6. No SDK. A lot of the software problems could be forgiven if we didn't have to beg you to fix them, but could run alternative apps instead.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
The iPhones audio quality is lacking sorely, the micorphopne is barely good enough, the speaker and earpiece are worse. But even more frustrating than that, iPhone creates terrible audio interference wherever I go in my daily tasks as a post production professional. It actually interferes with most of the apple attached hardware we use - protools, built in apple audio etc. Its quite disturbing when a 1000 watt audio system starts clicking unbearably loudly, your phone rings a few moments after and everyone in the room thinks you are a total tool. Just my 2 cents
So I can run useful software on it.
The device is absolute junk to anyone who cares about security and business functionality -- They really need to start over from scratch, think about security and integration into the corporate world, expand the options available (including carriers) and make something that can be priced competitively / realistically. The only people that this thing is good for are the fanboys, but they'll swallow any load that Steve Jobs coughs up -- Seriously, why would anyone sane person buy one of these things?
I'd like to be able to drive my Keynote presentations (or Powerpoint, or even just pdfs) off my iPhone/iPod. That plus the ability to takes notes with a stylus on the screen would save me carrying my laptop.
As a palm faithful for years and years, it was with great reluctance that I jumped ship to the iPhone. The browser and media player on the iphone are FANTASTIC. I can't say enough good things about them. There are however, a number of problems I've had dealing with my transition from Palm to iPhone.
- Few key *NATIVE* apps that I can't or don't want to replace with a web-based app: Let's face it, EDGE or wireless networking isn't good enough everywhere to completely depend on for frequently used apps. I want a local password manager app. I want a multiprotocol IM client. I want ability to record voice and video clips. I want a global search function. I want a draw/paint/notepad app where I can draw things like I do on cocktail napkins. I want a *REAL* todo app that ties into my calendar. I really miss my car maintenance/gas mileage app.
- mail app. Make email able to open any audio/video attachments with "itunes" multimedia player. Give me per-email account config options for # of messages to download, how many to keep. How about download and keep all messages until free ram less than X? Need ability to search email subject, to:, and email body.
- Integration features: I want my phone to "guess" my location based on cell towers, wifi access points and show a 'you are here' in Google Maps. I want to be able to select text from a webpage, and have the option of emailing the text with a link to source page to anyone in my address book. I want to be able to enter a phone number in the "location" field for a meeting and be able to touch the number on a meeting reminder and have the iphone dial my meeting number.
- Sync: Please oh please, let me sync my calendar with Google Calendar and Google contacts - I'd like to be able to do it wired or wirelessly. Add support in iTunes for syncing with Mozilla Sunbird. Add support for syncing with multiple calendar sources that have different sync locations and rules -- let my sync my work calendar and have events show up in red. Let me sync my personal calendar and have events show up in blue. Let me be able to toggle viewing my wife's personal calendar on and off as I wish and have it show up in a different color. Let me schedule events for multiple calendars. Please also add support for syncing with Palm Desktop. There aren't many good free PIMs on Windows. Outlook blows. Not everyone or every company uses Exchange. I wasted days trying to get 10 years of Palm data into outlook and into my iPhone. In the end, I only got about 80% of it over. That's a tragedy -- Apple should make it trivial for a Palm user to switch to iPhone with all their data.
- Browser: Flash, Flash, Flash... oh and bluetooth printing support
- Remote access: If you don't open up the iPhone, at least give us a multipurpose remote access app. I want to choose from the following options: 1) text-based ssh console, 2) RDP client that support multi-touch screen scaling and screen tilting, 3) VNC client that supports multi-touch screen scaling and positioning
- Hardware enhancements: Bluetooth - give me a tiny, foldable bluetooth keyboard and iphone stand that pairs with the iPhone so I can put it on the desk and type faster. Keyboard folded over should be about same size as iphone. Give us Stereo Bluetooth support and sell a stereo bluetooth headset with a MIC for phone use too (We hate wires). Keep larger flash drive capacities coming. Keyboard slider might make an interesting device - I won't be typing any novels on my current iPhone.
- Provide a *FREE* SDK for 3rd party development. Don't force me to jump ship to a gphone in 1 year. Let me hack my iPhone without worrying about Apple updates needing me to "reformat" my device and resync all my data. Come on, now!
- iTunes - let me grab new podcasts wireless and sync up info when I sync with itunes
Did I mention native, multiprotocol IM client? Oh, well let me mention it again. Let me specify my own XMPP/jabber servers too so I can connect with my corporate IM servers.
Lastly, one app I re
Conan already give Apple a bunch of wonderful ideas for the iPhone:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1xXNoB3t8vM
Its not what it is, its something else.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
seems like a waste to let that nice big screen go unutilized
did i say that out loud?
Hope is the currency of fools
That would be nice. Many organizations (including my school) use LEAP for network authentication.
Would it be possible for this to be implemented via software updates or a third-party app on the current-gen iPhone?
I'm pretty sure that's an issue with GSM using time division multiplexing, and that it has nothing to do with the iPhone, itself (except inasmuch as it is a GSM handset).
(1) Make the horizontal keyboard available for every application, not just Safari.
(2) Copy notes between Mac/PC and the iPhone
(3) Make locations in Google Maps save able
(4) Song controls in CoverFlow
(5) On-off switch for auto-correction. It's really good for English, but try to type a French/German/Italian message. Oh, yeah, international keyboards. Some of us are fluent in more than one language.
Other than that, kick AT&T to offer a non-extortionist international data plan.
i'd hit it so hard, if you pulled me out you'd be the king of britain [bash.org]
- Hardware Keyboard
- 3G
- Better Camera
- Less smugness
Oh Wait.
GPS, 3G and any other hardware acronym you may come up with.
Annndddd..
Open Source Operating System. Leave the rest to the crowd...
With some Steve Steve software.
O'WONDERWe're working on it.
Even my oldest phone had these two features:
1) Some kind of message light. Now I have to pick the thing up and press a button to see if I missed a call. This doesn't have to be fancy. I had a Pink Floyd CD with a blinking light in the spine that ran for, I don't remember exactly, something close to 5 years.
2) Voice dialing. Like it or not, my old $25 cell phone would allow me to record voice tags for a limited number of contacts. My old $50 phone would analyze speech with no training. My new $500 phone does neither and make me press a series of virtual buttons (with no tactile feedback) requiring visual attention. Bah!
When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras
Perhaps a not-so-expensive feature would be IRdA like the palm has. Then you could run it as a universal TV remote control and also car door unlocker. Oh, if they could partner with the auto companies to have it open your car door and also start your car, well that would be cool. Speaking of cars, if they could stream music from the phone to the car stereo like iTunes can with the Airport Express/Extreme, that would be helpful in getting rid of all these horrible FM transmitter gizmos that always suffer conflicts with existing stations.
Seth
$5 / month hosted VPS on linux = awesome!
What good is unlimited cellular data if I can't use it with my laptop?
-- Cerebus
Next easy question?
the one thing i'd like the most is this version to last a little more than a couple of months. that's all I ask
The best possible wifi range possible, and wimax if that ever takes off. The ability for it to function as a VoIP (using an open protocol such as SIP) client over any wireless internet connection, along with the removal of the requirement to activate it with AT&T (or at all, if one wants a VoIP-over-wifi-only wireless phone)
Along with costing less, and the ability for developers to port their own applications to it.
The thing is locked down it's ridiculous. But people stillbuy them...
Well, I bought mine only after the jailbreak and unlock processes were confirmed working. So I have an unlocked phone with a development environment and lots of native apps. Now, Apple may foolishly try to break support for this stuff in a future update, but I've come up with a brilliant countermeasure of not installing said update.
How to solve most of our problems: 1.Lots of nuclear plants. 2.Cure aging.
1. Someone other than Apple make/brand/sell the phone.
Let's face it, Apple doesn't have a history of making good quality products cheaply. They make cheap products expensively.
2. An off switch.
3. Replaceable batteries.
4. Reduce the size by making it a flip open (length-wise fold)
5. Use real switches on the sides instead of a touch screen. They are too easily scratched/smeared/smudged.
6. Open service plan - any carrier, anywhere.
7. Price accordingly - ie - less than $100 for the top model.
Who is general failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?
... the features I would add in no particular order are:
... Have it sync just like the address book. *This is probably my #1 feature* - Make is look like iCal or google calendar ( color-code multiple calendars )
1. Expandable Memory - I should be able to swap playlist without having to resync with iTunes. Locking you in to 8G is crap. But a much larger default memory option would also be nice.
2. 3G - But dont lose EDGE. 3G is not available everywhere so let it fall back to EDGE.
3. Video Capture - Why not. Not a must have but since I'm making a wish list, its in there.
4. GPS - This would be awesome working with the maps application they currently have. Again, not a must have.
5. Native IM client - Nuff said.
6. Ability to use ANY headphones without having to use an adapter. This is just an annoyance that does not need to be.
7. SDK - Allow anyone to make apps for the iPhone. Apple can make the ones they 'certify' available via iTunes. All the others, use at your own risk.
8. I useful Calendar - Integration with google calendar, Outlook,
9. Nicer mail client - Support multimedia attachments better. Email can 'flip' like safari. Page through email like you page through photos.
10. Flash support in safari - Too many sites today use flash not to support it in this 'full featured' browser.
11. Maybe more buttons. - Add another rocker or two to the sides. Use them to fine tune your flipping through coverflow, shrink/enlarge photos, next/previous song. Its a pain in the ass when you are using it as an iPod, lock the screen and then want to just skip to the next song.
What should anyone want?
The ability to write software for the device. Then everything else will pretty much take care of itself.
The fact that they won't do that for you is all the proof you need that Apple respects the RIAA and AT&T more than its customers.
Because I don't want one.
...I'm pretty sure there's already a hack that helps out with that. http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/iphone-gps-hack-works-301459.php Now, this may not be "real" GPS, but it's better than nothing. Obviously though, it would be nice to see a real GPS unit built into the iPhone, or at least have this type of peer-collected GPS data function built in.
My CRT monitor does something similar with my Nokia 6010. My screen distorts ever so slightly like there is a tremor in the Force...and then the phone rings. It's funny how the interference causes the monitor to 'know' the phone is going to ring.
We're all hypocrites. We all have hidden parts, it's the contrast between them that make us more a hypocrite than others
CDMA and unlocked, for starters.
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Don't we know enough already to steer clear of any article that starts with "15 things..." or "10 great ways..."? :-)
maybe. If you could, I don't know, make a list of the 10 or 15 reasons why we should steer clear of any article that starts with "15 things..." or "10 great ways.... Then I could be convinced.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
so I have a palm treo 650 (yea the older version not even the newest one) and it has like 90% of the things that people want in a new iPhone... so whats the big deal with the iPhone?
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Dear Apple,
Please fix the current iPhone to:
1. Support Flash
2. Allow the recording of video
Thanks,
The World
Those are all software updates. They can add those to the current iPhone
... At least an 800 or 1024 resolution longways (480px iPhone is 160 ppi, human eye can easily resolve up to 1200 ppi - pixels per inch) -- Sanyo Epson and Samsung have already shown demos of LCD's with this capability .. so asking for 400 ppi is not unreasonable. Make the screen longer -- i could care less if it screws the aspect ratio.
.. the cheaper one facing the user
..or some kind of fast voicemail only transmit method .. that is instead of ringing the person .. you should be able to record a voicenote and send it off to them and they get it as a ..no need to ring them and wait for the voice prompt etc.
.. looks like Apple thought the same way and was working on it. So I hope Apple thinks similarly this time too.
I want (web browsing on the go or while waiting for crap is very important to me):
1. Much higher resolution LCD
2. GPS - duh
3. Video conferencing capability - include 2 cameras
4. Better camera that is capable of photographing small text - off a monitor or magazine or some newspaper print (current iPhone can't focus if the newspaper is near, and doesn't have enough resolution to show details if it's held far). Also make the camera work with sliding action instead of releasing a press.
5. 3G - obviously.
6. Improved screen durability - "glass" should be replaceable
7. Touchscreen should work with gloves
8. LED flasher that periodically blinks when you have a missed call, voicemail, or sms -- come on my ooold sanyo phone had that
9. MUCH LOUDER SPEAKER
On the software front:
10. Voice recognition text input and SMS readout
voicemail
11. Make it easy to have applications for it (a sandboxed Java virtual machine that the OS can easily suspend etc.) Files can be stored like that.
You can check back in 2005 I posted on here saying "we like to super size" and that phones should be touchscreen with a larger screen
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=163341&cid=13644457
Shrink to half the size it currently is.
1) installable applications and a dev sdk; 2) todo list; 3) keyboard should be rotatable like the images; 4) option to turn off the screen rotation, imagine turning the camera on its side and taking a photo, then when you try to review the photo; 5) large, medium and small options for screens so that people have a choice; 6) works on other networks like sprint, verizon and t-mobile ( usa ); 7) higher resolution camera ( 2mp is good, but next year it will be standard ); I can't think of anything else right now..
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1) Open SDK for 3rd party native apps ... then a long distance of importance down to
... so I don't think I'm being unreasonable on that front).
2) Open SDK for 3rd party native apps
3) Open SDK for 3rd party native apps
4) the iPod Touch was supposed to be an iPhone without the phone. It's not. It lacks a lot of things that the iPhone has (editable calendar and notes, things like that). I want an iPhone that can specifically be bought with the intention of never activating the phone service. I don't mean "unlocked to use with other cell carriers", I mean "no carrier at all".
5) even with AT&T service, the ability to turn off SMS TXT messages. Don't want em. Can't spam-scan them, so just turn it off. (the only SMS TXT messages I get now are all spam).
6) support for bluetooth keyboards, and landscape mode for all apps (some only work in portrait mode).
7) support for either bluetooth tethering to any compatible device OR ability to act as a wifi base station for any wifi client.
8) more google integration. Maps is nice, but what about getting google to finally deliver IMAP support and have that work with the iPhone's mail client? and syncing contacts and calendar with google apps? (and bookmarks with delicious or something)?
9) the 3rd party SDK would handle this, but: native ssh client. Maybe a native VNC client, too. Maybe a couple native VPN clients. (I have all of that on my nokia N800
10) support for bluetooth hard drives, like the Seagate D.A.V.E.
I think that about covers it for me.
GPS
3G
Updated OS with Copy and Paste and Greater Consistency
User Removable Battery
$299
First before listing some of my thoughts I have to get one thing off my chess. Apple needs to pull its head out of its ass and realize that there is more potential in these new devices than just covering for a fancy iPod or Cell Phone. The iPhone isn't a cell phone at all, rather it is a very portable computer, that happens to have a Cell function associated with it. Once they grasp that people will want to use the cell just like they would a laptop they will start to see uncontrollable sales.
#1
More RAM Yes I said RAM! I suspect that this would make it easier to get things like FLASH up and running in the browser. A whole host of other technologies that eat RAM might then also be possible.
#2
Disk mode.
#3
Allied with the above is a file browser of some sort. One needs to be able to manage you file system and inspect and launch files. I see this as a key issue to wider adoption of the iPhone.
#4
More Flash. Preferably much more, like starting at 16 gigs and going up from there. This is a no brainer and I suspect we will see such a phone real soon now. We are talking room here for the multimedia files of course but also files that may be more corporate in nature.
#5
A SDK. It is nice that Apple has a somewhat open attitude with the device, but there is nothing better than an officially supported development environment.
#6
copy & paste
#7
Give the current applications the ability to access the flash file system in the normal way.
#8
Provide a software distribution that is targeted to the demands of the corporate world. This doesn't need to be a default part of the iPhone, it just has to solve the needs of corporate IT departments.
#9
Mail needs to go world class. It currently isn't to bad but could use a bunch more refinement.
#11
GPS
#12
A camera free variant. I shouldn't have to rehash why, but I will say it is a real need.
#13
Full bluetooth support. I do mean full too, I would want to be able to do everything I do on PC as far as port access, enumeration and etc.
#14
A USB port that takes a standard connector.
#15
A much larger external battery. Swapping batteries is the only way to go when the going gets tough.
#16
With the GPS model Apple really needs to offer up a complete set of maps. Make them a free download and Apple will quickly whip out some of the high priced GPS vendors.
#17
While I have issues with most Cell Phone cameras Apple could take the high road and design a camera that has extremely good quality and integrates into the package. Sure this would mean designing in some sort of bump or hump for the lens and assembly but it ought to be easy and worthwhile.
#18
How about a real calculator with advanced functions. Preferably one that has predictable accuracy, handles large numbers and has user selectable feature sets. That is a mode for scientific, software development, finance or whatever.
#19
How about a SMP version of the phone. Performance counts you know.
#20
Don't be an ass about Linux support. In fact integrate the syncing to work with GNOME desktop. and ship a iTUnes version to the Linux users.
How did I do for right off the top of my head? As you can see some basic stuff. Also I'm not too keen on the software side of things, that is already getting taken care of. It is Apples responsibility to offer a set of system apps that support the Independent Software Developer. I believe that is is Apples responsibility to supply a file browser, and perhaps some low level tools and an installer. The rest is really up to the user and developer.
Dave
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And BTW, my only "must have" ability would be the option of using a Bluetooth headset in iPod mode. While it would probably suck for music, mono would be just fine for audiobooks, podcasts, and TV shows.
I bought the Apple headset, but don't use it simply because it's too much of a pain to switch back and forth between it and earbuds when I go from phone to pod mode (and back again).
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I like my iPhone. In 3-5 months when they release a new model that has all the things I wish mine had I will still like my iPhone. I'll just wish I had waited to get the new one. But I'll still like my old, out of date, feature crippled Gen 1 iPhone.
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Note: I do not own an iPhone.
General improvements we want with all devices...
Cheaper - We want a cheaper iPhone. I'm sure Apple is already working on this.
More Open - I want to be able to add my own apps. I know why Apple is against it: the AT&Ts of the world don't want the phone to work on other networks, so they make an agreement with Apple that it won't be hacked. Well, Mr. Jobs... figure out a way for the next iPhone to do just that...
Smaller, yet Bigger. - The iPhone is an exellent mix of "small enough to fit in your pocket" and "large enough to watch a movie on". That being said, some people want the whole phone to be smaller. Others want the screen to be bigger. Depending on which camp you fall in, you'll want that. Can apple do anything about this? Not really, except release multiple "sizes" for their iPhone line.
More Carriers - I know Apple has an agreement with AT&T, but when that contract is up, they should open up the iPhone to other carriers.
Uploadable MP3 (or AAC) Ringtones - A friend of mine has the "Murlock Sound" from World of Warcraft for his ringtone. Most anoying ring ever, but it's funny as well. Every other phone can do this... if you can get it to connect to your computer, you can upload pictures, music and __ringtones__. And the iPhone can't because... Because...
More Applications - Where's my SSH client? You KNOW that would be useful. Stuck on a bus? Check the status of your servers. Seeing that there are a lot of "hacked" applications out there should give a good idea of what apple might want to "bundle" into the iPohne with apple's blessing.
Wireless Headphones - Okay, now we're heading into truly dream-land here, but I'd love a high quality pair of wireless headphones with the next ipod/iphone... It could be done! I know blue-tooth does it, sorta... but no, I'm talking about something that generates the audio at the earpeace, and just streams the music from the ipod... so there is NO sound degration...
Okay, and with that last wacky one... I'm done for now.
--Pathway
I want to read my eBooks on it. 'nuff said.
I don't much care for Verizon as a company - and don't get me started on how they cripple their phones. But they do have the undeniable advantage of a good strong signal in all the places where I need it. So I'm a Verizon customer (for now).
If Apple made a CDMA Iphone - and Verizon could resist their need to disable apps and hardware features to protect their "buy it now" revenue stream - then I'd be carrying an Iphone right now. It's not perfect, but it's leaps and bounds beyond the other cell phones in its class.
Or AT&T could get busy and plant some cell towers around here so that their service would be usable. As bad as AT&T is as a company, they're nowhere near as greedy and abusive as Verizon. If there was signal, I'd switch to AT&T and get an Iphone.
But neither of these things is likely to happen at any time in the foreseeable future. Verizon isn't likely to stop crippling the phones they sell and AT&T isn't likely to expand their signal coverage into this part of town. So I'll keep carrying this crippled piece of stuff cell phone and hope for a better day.
That ability to call. From anywhere with any provider. Are you so customed to locked phones that you do not even wonder why this is? Do you buy a TV that lets you show only what the vendor wants? Or can you imagine what you would say if a computer only runs the software the vendor wants you to run?
Seriously, the first thing I wuld expect from an iPhone, Kphone, Gphone, whateverPhone is that I can phone people with it. Unrestricted.
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I want the iphone to do everything my video ipod can do plus an am/pm radio, gsp, ichat and wifi.
But here's some of the things my crappy old phone can do, that the iPhone can't:
I shouldn't have to give up these features. Tethering (the ability to connect to the Internet from my laptop through the phone) is the dealbreaker; I use that all the time. I can understand the battery issue, and I should be able to work around it by connecting an external battery pack (I've seen these for other phones; I don't know if one is available for the iPhone yet, but it's not exactly complicated).
Beyond that? I'm sure 3G is coming. GPS would be nice, so I don't have to enter my current location when using Google Maps, especially after I've made a wrong turn and I don't really know where I am. Copy and paste would be helpful. And I really desperately want an SSH client.
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It was not deliberately crippled. The current chips uses too much power and would make the battery life unacceptable. Google for more info and Jobs' comments on the subject.
The Reality Distortion Field is in full effect then I see.
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battery life under 3G would appear to be a "bit" of an issue...
My Mogul (CDMA version of HTC Hermes/Tytn) can run a good six hours or so on full web mode (1.5 Mbps/800K up/down) or running the (native) Google Maps. If I use it intermittently, it lasts the whole day, alternating between text, data, and PDA. On certain days, in weak signal areas, I have noticed that the battery will drain much faster (like, within six hours or so), and even faster if I have turned on bluetooth, WiFI, or IR beams. But you know what? From the home screen, or using a button on the side, I can turn on and off any or all of the radio emitters using single pushes or clicks. If I want, I can reduce the device's functions down to basically a PDA and, in that condition, the battery seems to last a couple of days.
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Sometimes i think im the only one who says this:
The iPhone is not even close to a revolutionary device, in fact its years behind current smartphones.
Recently i bought a HP iPAQ rw6828. and it has a feature list better than an iphone, and is based on technology 2 years old. It has
WiFi (b)
Bluetooth
GSM, GRPS EDGE
SMS MMS IMAP POP3 Hotmail
MSN
Camera + photo software
Audio and video capabilities
Voice Activation
USB mini connection
SD Card slot
The only thing i see it dosent have compared to an iPhone is 8GB of memory, but other than that its more feature packed.
This thing costed me $600 AUD, which is slightly lower than what the iPhone would be in AUD when released.
Can someone please tell me why there is soo much buzz about an instantly outdated device?
'nuff said
How about a jammer so you can force people to pay attention to their driving?
The iphone cannot do a lot that my K-Jam can:
1) Voice dialing. Handsfree is a requirement in California when you're driving.
2) HP-41C calculator emulation (eV41).
3) fine-grained phone/SMS blocking (CallFirewall).
A lot of this is add-on functionality, which is exactly the point. Poor dumb M$ at least left WM5 open enough to add stuff I want.
The iphone does things I absolutely hate:
1) requires iTunes, which is the most idiotic app Apple's ever released.
2) annoys you when you are passing Starbucks on your way to getting some coffee.
Apple has a winner as far as the fanboys and dullish gadget freaks are concerned, and it's a gorgeous object, but it does too little to please me. I'm hopeful the Google phone will be on an open platform.
I want a bunch of that other stuff (GPS, faster data, let me use it as a modem, third-party apps) but what I want most of all is to be able to use it with a corporate liability account. For some reason, AT&T has seen fit to limit the plans the iPhone can be used with to non-discounted, personal liability plans. Sure, I understand the non-discounted aspect. The personal liability, less so. I suppose it might be that they want the 2-year lock-in and can't get it with corporate accounts, but gee does it seem short sighted. I might be prepared to drop a few hundred bucks on some new phone hardware but no way am I going to give up my company-paid account and eat the monthly charges myself instead. I can't be the only one like that.
Of course, that wouldn't take iPhone 2.0 to achieve, just AT&T 2.1. One hopes that once they think they've saturated the early and early-ish adopter market, they'll adopt a more accommodating position in order to continue to drive sales. How long did it take, say, the Treo to move from the height of geek jewelry to a discounted commodity phone? Maybe it'll take as long as that, and then I can get one. Come to think of it, the iPod 2.0 hardware the rest of you are writing about may be out by then!
I have not tried to compile it, but anything you can compile in XCode you can get running on the iPhone. I used to use scheme myself, that might be kind of fun...
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Actually I meant to say Grafitti, and by that the real Grafitti (the second version was called Jot) but I had misplaced the name mentally. Yes, a reworked version of that I would have found as acceptible as a virtual keyboard - I still think it could be a powerful alternative approach that allows you to keep a virtual keyboard in a smaller physical space.
I have to say though that typing is easier on my hands than writing was, since humans have so little call to actualy use a pen anymore... and there is something to be said for not needing a stylus, I was losing or destroying them at times.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Apple didn't sell it at launch, but they are now offering iPhone Applecare for $69. It doesn't matter they didn't offer it at launch, because you can buy anytime you are still under the original warranty... which I think is a very fair policy indeed.
I believe the AT&T exclusion may be specifically because Apple wanted to handle all technical details related to servicing the iPhone (and having used Apple service before, that is indeed desirable).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
That an SDK may be coming out with Leopard, along with a new Xcode, and updates to Cocoa. So the wait may not be much longer ;)
- 3G. OK, OK, every one and their grandmother wants it. I'm not so worried about speed as I am international use. Good luck using GSM in Japan, Korea, etc.
- Multi-language input! Not just English, Spanish, and French like is on most any Nokia phone. I want to be able to type using auto-complete in English, Japanese, Hebrew, Korean, etc. Most any phone is capable of this nowdays. The iPhone is especially so. Licensing costs will vary, but let me pay for an add-on.
- A note taking application to take good use of that software keyboard.
the iPhone is also supposed to be a phone and a video iPod
Unless you have 3G, you're probably not used to thinking of your phone as an always-potentially-on high-speed conduit, so you're probably misunderstanding what I mean when I say "data". I can spend several hours a day streaming video and music from my server over either 3G or WiFi using Orb to to the server-side transcoding (I know other people prefer custom hardware, like SlingBox). So basically, I am "carrying" around a TB of data that I can access anytime. To be honest though, there are very few occasions where I need to turn on WiFi (usually, basements) because 3G is plenty fast enough to stream video. And when I use the phone as a modem hooked to a PC, it's fast enough to stream SD DIVX at full framerates for easy viewing.
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Windows Me.
No need to use profanity.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
You see this confuses me. I have a Sony Ericsson W850i and, with the right memory card, it can store up to 8GB of music. It also includes Walkman music player software on the phone (which is on par with the iPod firmware, IMO). It has a full HTML browser. It supports 3G and video calling. It has an RSS reader. What is so special about the iPhone?!
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or a (hypothetical) Pocket Debian or a similar Free/OpenSource software platform.
Otherwise, the iPhone isn't a Smartphone.
Smart Groups from the MacOS X Address Book should sync with the iPhone. While we're at it, Smart Playlists from iTunes would be nice, as would the Smart Mailboxes from Mail.app.
- I must use iTunes to use the iPhone
+ iTunes is proprietary
+ iTunes chokes on my 250 gigs ripped CD collection (all legit), even the mp3'd subset
of it I have
+ iTunes doesn't support the open format I ripped them into (flac)
- I can't quickly transfer tunes/vids to it from any PC via drag and drop
- I can't install any 3rd party app I want on it (ebook reader, games, reference...)
The Cloud - because you don't care if your apps and data are up in the air.
take your TyTN and shave off a 13.5mm wafer
The Mogul is a later, thinner version of the HTC Hermes model, the platform on which the earlier, older Tytn was also based. The Mogul is 18mm thick, and that includes a slide-out full qwerty keyboard, a flash-enabled camera, a voice recorder, IrDA, a jogwheel, single-button voice interface access, USB, a memory card slot, and a battery that can be swapped out within 30s. For an extra 4.5mm, I can live with that.
It should also be noted that the Hermes platform itself is from the middle of last year and positively ancient. For me, the fact that it cost under $120 with rebates, runs basically every ebook SW known, costs $30/month including unlimited data, and can emulate all my old consoles was a no-brainer. Were I to splurge iphone levels of cash, I'd probably get the Nokia N95 or the Toshiba G900 (with an 800x400 display delivering twice the pixel density of the iphone).
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### first and foremost ###### VOIP SOFTWARE PREFERABLY FOR VONAGE!! 1. Removable Battery or 20-40 battery life 2. ability to play quicktime movies/ sound files in email 3. flash support 4. java support 5. Window Media Video support in safari as well as native player application 6. ability to send a message with BCC recipients 7. Delete all txt or all emails at once 8. Disk use mode like other ipods 9. copy/paste in all applications 10. native ichat with video conferencing (w/ smaller mirror on back for self portraits) 11. AppTapp Installer supported/accepted by Apple 12. 3G data 13. unrecess the headphone port
iPal - Palm sized Macintosh - $500
3x5 touch screen runs - Two screens fold together like a book.
MacOS full enough to run all software
Slower than other Macs of course - there are some trade offs
Auto-syncing with desktop or notebook or another iPal for full backup
Music,
Videos,
WiFi connected,
VOIP/Cell/Radio phone,
Camera
Scanner
GPS
Real World Rugged
Slips in the pocket. Size of an iPod.
Flash memory for long battery life. 4GB, 8GB, 32GB, 64GB, 128GB.
Induction recharging of battery.
Solar skin for recharging of battery.
Wi-Fi for the internet & VOIP.
Cellular for cellphone if desired.
Bluetooth for earphones, keyboard, mouse.
Screen is touch sensitive of course and a tablet.
Sealed case, real world rugged, no ports, no openings.
Full MacOSX from a user's perspective but you don't need optical drive and a lot of other things.
Available in any color as long as it is black.
The iPal - it does it all.
I won't buy an iPhone so long as I have to go with AT&T as my carrier. I'd rather have my choice of carriers and choice of VoIP carrier when I'm getting a good wifi connection. The vast majority of my calls would come from my home or office where I could call for almost nothing using VoIP and I'd be willing to pay by the minute when not at home or office since I'd use those so rarely. I like Net10 for prepaid cell access because they have so few fees compared to most carriers. Pair them with Vonage or Skype and make them all work with the iPhone and you'll have a winner IMO.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
For the record, the iPhone does have RSS support in its current iteration, just not 100% native (though pretty close :P). Just enter a feed address in Safari's address bar, and it redirects you to the .Mac RSS Reader for iPhone, which looks and behaves similarly to the Safari RSS built-in client.
I took the plunge and bought my iPhone right after they announced the price drop. (Actually saved $50 more by going with a refurbished iPhone 8GB model off Apple's web site).
So far, I really like the phone, and somewhat dislike AT&T's lack of reliability and coverage. (Last week, for an entire day, it seemed like every phone call I got didn't make my phone ring. I only knew people tried calling when I got the missed call or new voicemail messages later. I started to blame my iPhone for it, until I talked to another friend of mine using a Moto Razr with AT&T who had the same problem.)
If it wasn't for AppTap installer though, I think I might not be as happy with the phone right now. I almost think this one caught even Apple by surprise. (It amazes me how quickly people are developing really good, un-official apps and distributing them conveniently through this "click and go" installer tool. It even keeps track of any updates you need and lets you uninstall with one tap too.)
Along with must-have applets like "Summerboard", I've downloaded such things as a VNC client for my iPhone, a decent IRC chat client, an instant-messenger for AOL's network (wish it supported others, but that's probably coming soon), a couple decent free games (Tetris and Blackjack), a Super NES emulator, a really good dictionary and thesaurus, and Navizon (www.navizon.com) - which gives you a pretty decent alternative to hardware GPS capabilities.
Already, enough good software development has gone on - I don't think Apple can really risk breaking or locking out this stuff now. Several commercial phone app makers are writing unofficial iPhone apps, and they all seem to comment on their web site that "Apple is aware of our project." If this was all still stuff you had to manually jump through hoops to get loaded onto your phone, then Apple would shrug and ignore them. But I'm starting to think maybe this next iPhone firmware update has taken longer than expected to come out BECAUSE they're doing some testing to see if they can add their changes without screwing up most of the AppTap installed apps? It's simply too GOOD a 3rd. party extension to the iPhone!
Some kind of death-ray, with touch-commands!
..and two of your examples specifically refer to wifi use, not 3G use.
Not to revive a dying thread but I couldn't resist bring this back up especially after it is clear what update 1.1.1 did to us.
MORE THAN ANY THING ELSE I WANT AN iPhone 2.0 THAT ALLOWS FOR CUSTOM APPS. I certainly don't want the crap that 1.1.1 gave us when they locked out the ability to load your own programs. Steve J. is suppose to be some sort of marketing genius but this strikes me as some sort of childish attack on the customers that give Apple its life blood.
This recent update is possibly the worst thing that Apple has done from a management perspective in a very long time.
Dave