iPhone 2.0 App Suggestions

[friekunater]

Post your ideas for iPhone 2.0 applications here! I have no clue how to develop apps, nor do I have a mac. So for me, it won't really bother me if someone steals my ideas. I actually hope they do take them and improve upon them.

NOTE: do not post your ideas here if you dont want people to steal them!!!!

My ideas:

•an IM client that works with ALL major services

•a monopoly game, just like the board game

•multi-instrument emulator (piano, guitar, etc.)

•an RGP game like The Sims that lets you create people, houses, etc.

•iPod classic emulator: two-in-one iPod =)

•a photo editing/tweaking app

•Wheel of Fortune game-spin using your finger, use keyboard to guess...

•Labyrinth (like on a jailbroken iPhone)

•texting app for iPod touch that looks like the iPhone's, but uses wi-fi

•pedometer

here are my ideas, up for the taking!
Ill post more when I think of them
if any developer would like to follow me up on these ideas, feel free to contact me at friek4@gmail.com

[Michael CM1]

Why do people want an iPod Classic emulator? I don't miss that click-wheel taking up half the surface area except for when I want to skip tracks with the screen locked. Otherwise, good riddance to it. Don't be surprised for ALL iPods (except for Shuffle) to do away with it in the next two years.

As for the other ideas, some good ones. The Sims is a little overboard unless you tie it in to The Sims Online (if that's still around). I also don't think the instrument emulators will be around long unless they're free. I certainly wouldn't pay for them. The Super Monkeyball game demoed would probably be a hit (It's hella fun on game systems and isn't complicated).

I don't know that an IM client will work until Apple gets past the not letting apps run in the background thing. They may have to put iChat on the phone to get IM on there, and even then I don't think it would work on EDGE (just 3G and WiFi).

[Emulsion]

Why do people want an iPod Classic emulator? I don't miss that click-wheel taking up half the surface area except for when I want to skip tracks with the screen locked. Otherwise, good riddance to it. Don't be surprised for ALL iPods (except for Shuffle) to do away with it in the next two years.

As for the other ideas, some good ones. The Sims is a little overboard unless you tie it in to The Sims Online (if that's still around). I also don't think the instrument emulators will be around long unless they're free. I certainly wouldn't pay for them. The Super Monkeyball game demoed would probably be a hit (It's hella fun on game systems and isn't complicated).

I don't know that an IM client will work until Apple gets past the not letting apps run in the background thing. They may have to put iChat on the phone to get IM on there, and even then I don't think it would work on EDGE (just 3G and WiFi).


Why would an iChat not work with edge?

[waterskier2007]

Why would an iChat not work with edge?

im not sure, but it could be because it would require too much battery to be connecting all the time. and if it ran in the background it would not allow users to make or receive calls because you cant use voice and edge at the same time

[TimJim]

Of course a form of iChat would run fine on Edge as long as its running in the background and not chewing up battery.

Apollo IM works fine, basically the same thing.

[guruji]

go to meebo.com and chat using yahoo or msn or aol. works perfectly using older versions though...

i tried on wifi though :(

[ucfgrad93]

I want

ToDo list or Task list
ebook reader (www.ereader.com)
Bible reader (www.laridian.com)
games (Bejeweled, Zuma, Rocket Mania, etc.)

[Niiro13]

•an IM client that works with ALL major services
MobileChat's developer is making one with the official SDK.

•a monopoly game, just like the board game
Too bad Hasbro holds that.

•multi-instrument emulator (piano, guitar, etc.)
I wonder if the copyright applies to Moo music...for making Pianist, Guitarist, and Drummer.

•an RGP game like The Sims that lets you create people, houses, etc.
Sims already dominates...anything else would be suitable to put on Installer.

•iPod classic emulator: two-in-one iPod =)
ehh...be kinda useless...wouldn't be allowed to play the iTunes games.

•a photo editing/tweaking app
Do you mean like TouchFX or stuff to change brightness and all that?

•Wheel of Fortune game-spin using your finger, use keyboard to guess...
Now that'd be interesting...I might take up on that challenge =) [I called it people, it's mine! =P]

•Labyrinth (like on a jailbroken iPhone)
Of course because of copyright reasons, only that maker can make it =/.

•texting app for iPod touch that looks like the iPhone's, but uses wi-fi
Would Apple allow for an SMS app on the iPod Touch? (then again, you can do that with AOL's AIM, can't you? (add number to buddy list in this format +1231234567)

•pedometer
That I could also do =). Do you really want a pedometer that bad that it makes the list? 0_0 I'm just kidding.

I want

ToDo list or Task list
ebook reader (www.ereader.com)
Bible reader (www.laridian.com)
games (Bejeweled, Zuma, Rocket Mania, etc.)

That can all be done easily =)...except for the games...since PopCap is signed on as a developer, only they can make it.

Too bad it's not like Installer where you can make Bejeweled...now copyrights actually apply and stuff.

[lindsaykaye04]

To Do list!!!
Video recording (that could be software, right?)

Honestly, that's all I desperately want. I will probably download a ton of apps, but use very few.

[Bassassin]

Couple ideas.

Navigation would be sweeeet. They are all proud of having google maps on there, but what good does it do you if you don't know where the F you are?

And, for texting and maybe IMing, it would be nice if the keyboard switched to wide if you changed the phone to horizontal as opposed to a bit cramped as vertical.

[friekunater]

I think I would want an iPod classic emulator just because I think it would look cool. wouldnt get it unless it was free though.
Being an iPod touch user, I really dont care whether or not EDGE will work, but being a person who uses Meebo, I know it works fine with wi-fi. but, it does kill the battery
@Niiro13: why do you think I put the pedometer at the bottom of the screen? lol
I text all the time from my iPod touch! I have a separate account set up in my mail just for texting. each phone has an email address! you just send it to, ie 8155553321@email.uscc.net for USC customers and each carrier is different. (thats also a great way to send/recieve MMS)
for photo editing app, I was thinking maybe you would choose the photo, set whether its in landscape/portrait mode, and whatever you dont choose, when you turn the iPhone that way, will be the editing options. something like a watered-down photoshop-esque thing.
for monopoly, is there a way to get around the copyright? call it like foflopoly or somethin lol
if you're guna make wheel of fortune, dont make it suck lol

@LindsayKaye04: they already have a to-do list... well two... notes and calendar. ever heard of 'em? lol
I dont think they could use the iPhone's camera to record video. probably need special hardware.

@MichaelCM1: I didnt mean like the actual Sims, just more of a generic version. probably a big issue with that would be memory and speed. but i think it sounds fun.

[waterskier2007]

Couple ideas.

Navigation would be sweeeet. They are all proud of having google maps on there, but what good does it do you if you don't know where the F you are?


there is already a locator, or do you mean one that would follow you for turn by turn directions with location?

[tonywob]

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[Reaktor5]

A custom EQ, which Apple should have had put in by now!

[The Grood]

Scrabble - or scrabbulous (Facebook version)

[extraextra]

A character counter for SMS

[c104]

Musical Instrument Tuner
;)

[friekunater]

Scrabble - or scrabbulous (Facebook version)

I think that would be amazing! I would get that no doubt

[friekunater]

one more idea... I would love a TV tuner, probably subscription-based... maybe DVR recordings of up to like 3 hrs of shows.

[guruji]

A character counter for SMS

yes, thats one important thing.

[Bassassin]

there is already a locator, or do you mean one that would follow you for turn by turn directions with location?

Thank you for clarifying. I meant turn by turn, that would be sweet. And are iphones compatible with bluetooth ear pieces? I'm under the impression they aren't yet. If no, porque?

[Niiro13]

Actually, I just realized that it makes no sense to use the keyboard for Wheel of Fortune (cause the keyboard is only for text box input...yet in Wheel of Fortune, you only need to guess the letter once for all instances of that letter)...you can just have letters at the bottom to guess.

MobileChat and Apollo IM teams are making an SDK version...=P

Lol, iPod Classic emulator just cause you can? XD

To-Do List is probably already made =P (yeah, there's notes and calendar...but some people just want an app dedicated for to-do =P)

iPhone's camera already can take video (taking a look at the codecs and stuff)...it's just whether Apple will allow it (Video recording is already being developed by a team...whether they are allowed to release it is up to Apple).

Yeah, there's already a kind of locator in 2.0...(not that good, but without a GPS dongle, what are you gonna do?)

IMing I'm sure AOL has put landscape (MobileChat already has it)...as for Texting...will have to be Apple's job: www.apple.com/feedback

Custom EQ would require you to either play your music through the app itself, or somehow gain access to the EQ (which wouldn't be allowed since it's in jail)

Character counter for SMS would require you to have it open while the SMS is open, which means background app...right? I'm not sure if there's a command to receive data from the SMS app while it's not opened.

iPhone's bluetooth only work with headsets as of right now.

I wanna see an RTS game or an RPG game...and a full fledged one...just so I can see how the companies come up with a way to fit all that UI in that small screen =P

[cjandnw]

Send and receive MMS

Customizable home screen: User can opt to go to standard (current) home screen with power button press and slide or customized home screen with home button press and slide.
Home screen could be user configurable:
It could contain a few choice icons, today task/ appointment list, weather,
SMS, MMS, Email status, Vmail status, missed call status, whatever the user wants

[rhett7660]

Send and receive MMS

Customizable home screen: User can opt to go to standard (current) home screen with power button press and slide or customized home screen with home button press and slide.
Home screen could be user configurable:
It could contain a few choice icons, today task/ appointment list, weather,
SMS, MMS, Email status, Vmail status, missed call status, whatever the user wants


You beat me to it. I want to be able to customize my home screen without jailbreaking it. I want to be able t add my own icons, wallpaper etc.

SMS, MMS are big on my hopes list also. I used this a lot. I didn't realise how much I used this.

[Island Dog]

Definitely an IM application, not that AOL crap they showed.


Task list

Basic text editor

Photo editor

[Niiro13]

Send and receive MMS

Customizable home screen: User can opt to go to standard (current) home screen with power button press and slide or customized home screen with home button press and slide.
Home screen could be user configurable:
It could contain a few choice icons, today task/ appointment list, weather,
SMS, MMS, Email status, Vmail status, missed call status, whatever the user wants

The best that can happen is that you go to a different "home screen" by running the app. Remember, background apps are not allowed =/.


Definitely an IM application, not that AOL crap they showed.

AOL's is kinda nice...I would change a few things though. Anyway, Apollo IM and MobileChat are rewriting their apps in SDK.

[friekunater]

Wirelessly posted (iPod touch: Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419.3)

GPS, but I'm pretty sure this will already be on future iPhones one way or another.

[friekunater]

Wirelessly posted (iPod touch: Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419.3)

Phase/TTR/Guitar Hero

Phase is really fun on regular iPods, but I don't think TTR is all that fun on iPhones... maybe if they had sweeps like on the nano^^

[friekunater]

Wirelessly posted (iPod touch: Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419.3)

e-book reader

[friekunater]

Wirelessly posted (iPod touch: Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419.3)

Actually, I just realized that it makes no sense to use the keyboard for Wheel of Fortune (cause the keyboard is only for text box input...yet in Wheel of Fortune, you only need to guess the letter once for all instances of that letter)...you can just have letters at the bottom to guess.



MobileChat and Apollo IM teams are making an SDK version...=P



Lol, iPod Classic emulator just cause you can? XD



To-Do List is probably already made =P (yeah, there's notes and calendar...but some people just want an app dedicated for to-do =P)



iPhone's camera already can take video (taking a look at the codecs and stuff)...it's just whether Apple will allow it (Video recording is already being developed by a team...whether they are allowed to release it is up to Apple).



Yeah, there's already a kind of locator in 2.0...(not that good, but without a GPS dongle, what are you gonna do?)



IMing I'm sure AOL has put landscape (MobileChat already has it)...as for Texting...will have to be Apple's job: www.apple.com/feedback



Custom EQ would require you to either play your music through the app itself, or somehow gain access to the EQ (which wouldn't be allowed since it's in jail)



Character counter for SMS would require you to have it open while the SMS is open, which means background app...right? I'm not sure if there's a command to receive data from the SMS app while it's not opened.



iPhone's bluetooth only work with headsets as of right now.



I wanna see an RTS game or an RPG game...and a full fledged one...just so I can see how the companies come up with a way to fit all that UI in that small screen =P



for Wheel of Fortune:

or, you could have the keyboard maybe with a different color/shape theme, with only the qwerty keyboard (no numbers, symbols...) and when a letter has been guessed, darken it or make it disappear from the keyboard

[friekunater]

Wirelessly posted (iPod touch: Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419.3)

or maybe an MMORPG (massive multi-player role playing game) like runescape or WOW

[Mikey B]

im not sure, but it could be because it would require too much battery to be connecting all the time. and if it ran in the background it would not allow users to make or receive calls because you cant use voice and edge at the same time

EDGE would have nothing to do with iChat not working on the iPhone. As far as battery life it would work much better than 3G because it consumes dramatically less battery life. The EDGE network also has nothing to do with why Apple doesn't want more than one App running at the same time. If you've ever jailbroken, you know there are plenty of IM clients that work just fine one EDGE.

[janitorC7]

EDGE would have nothing to do with iChat not working on the iPhone. As far as battery life it would work much better than 3G because it consumes dramatically less battery life. The EDGE network also has nothing to do with why Apple doesn't want more than one App running at the same time. If you've ever jailbroken, you know there are plenty of IM clients that work just fine one EDGE.

Actually, that is not entirely correct. The edge network would make it hard to IM and talk. As there cannot be an active edge connection while you are on the phone. So, you get a phone call, and get disconnected from AIM. Or you are sending messages, or fetching a new list from the server in AIM and you dont receive a phone call. I realize that this is already an issue with browsing the internet, but an AIM app would require spooling to the server quite often.

JC7

[newyorksole]

The apps demoed at the event March 6th like AOL Instant Messenger will probably be available day 1 of the apps store release right?

[nickspohn]

The apps demoed at the event March 6th like AOL Instant Messenger will probably be available day 1 of the apps store release right?

yes.

[laxmax613]

Musical Instrument Tuner
;)

YES. YES. DO IT. YES.

[EricBrian]

A link from the main screen to contacts.

[alecapple]

I would really like to see apple expand the iTunes application beyond music, and allow user to rent or buy movies. It would also be nice to be able to buy ringtones on your phone. Apple boasts about how they offer the "whole" internet, why cant they do the same with one of their own programs?

[JBaker122586]

The apps demoed at the event March 6th like AOL Instant Messenger will probably be available day 1 of the apps store release right?

Spore is not set for release until September.
And Monkey Ball has not yet been announced as an official title.

[newyorksole]

Yeah I knew that that's why I said apps such as AIM and not games. Ahh can't wait for the apps store finally gonna have new stuff on my phone!!

[friekunater]

Yeah I knew that that's why I said apps such as AIM and not games. Ahh can't wait for the apps store finally gonna have new stuff on my phone!!

me too! I know what I'm not going to be for a month. SOCIAL!!!!!!! lmao

[nineteentwelve]

Dictionary.app would rock. It'd be handy to have if I don't know the definition of all those big words the cool kids use.