Apple iPhone suggestions.

[LoganT]

We can make this the official thread for suggestions, or not.

I think they should put in a Suretype/Qwerty keyboard. I know they said that it doesn't work because buttons change. However, I think they should put a Suretype/Qwerty keyboard on there, and that's it. No five-way, or scroll wheel. Use the screen to navigate around. Because I don't think the qwerty keyboard is going to be changing anytime soon. Also, instead of embedding 4 or 8 gigabytes of flash memory, which jacks up the cost, put an SDHC slot in it. That way if people primarily want to use it as a phone and not be charged a hefty price for features they may or may not use, they don't have to be. And if people do want to use it as iPod, they can buy a 4GB SDHC card for $80 or an 8 GB SDHC card for $150.

[andysmoore]

When shuffling songs, the coverflow (when the iphone is horizontal) should automatically skip to the album thats playing.

[bse99b]

I think it would be amazing if apple would make a card reader that can plug into the iphone to move photos from a digital camera. I wouldn't need to carry an external drive anymore.

[Hot Snowboarder]

I think it would be amazing if apple would make a card reader that can plug into the iphone to move photos from a digital camera. I wouldn't need to carry an external drive anymore.

If you only need an extra 8/16GB, why not just buy another memory card for your camera?

[BarrettNashvill]

I heard recently that the most frequently used apps on the iPhone are related to weather. Why not add a small temperature gauge to the top of every screen, next to the time, that shows you the current temperature outside based upon your location. This would be useful for when you wake up and want to know the temperature outside before getting dressed or for when you are at work and want to check the temperature before deciding whether you want to go outside for your break.

Something like this: http://www.slideshare.net/BarrettNashville/iphone-temperature-1312169

I don't think this is possible to write as a third party app based upon the restrictions of the iPhone software but it seems like it could easily be implemented by Apple.

[Wenga Nosaj]

I think it would be great if in iTunes there was a tab where you could arrange which Apps go on which screen of your iPhone. That way you didn't have to hold the App Icon down with your finger waiting for it to jiggle and then drag it to other pages. It takes too much time to do that.

Having a tab to allow you to do this in iTunes when you are about to sync your iPhone would be a GREAT time saver.

I don't want to be greedy, but there could be multiple screens allowing you to drag and drop apps immediately.

-Wenga

[vwDavid]

Location and time aware ringer/volume control.

imagine this: business meeting at 4pm every thursday, you can set the iphone ringer on a schedule to always silence during that time, never forget to go into silent mode.

-location aware: drive into work? GPS mark the location and have the ringer go silent whenever you are in that area (ie arrive for work, ringer goes silent, leave work ringer go back to normal)

-GPS mark your home location, ringer volume to max perhaps so you can hear it across the house.

-Also, please give use independant ringer tones and volumes for all alerts.

[vwDavid]

I guess no one at all thinks location aware or scheduled ringer/volume is really cool?

[PhightinPhils26]

I think it would be great if in iTunes there was a tab where you could arrange which Apps go on which screen of your iPhone. That way you didn't have to hold the App Icon down with your finger waiting for it to jiggle and then drag it to other pages. It takes too much time to do that.

Isn't this going to be in iTunes 9?

[bheckman]

I think it would be really helpful if the same signatures that get used in the Mail app would sync to the iPhone through MobileMe including images. I second the temperature idea linked to location. Good idea!