iPhone 2.0 App Suggestions

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).

Michael CM1 said:

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).

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Why would an iChat not work with edge?

Emulsion said:

Why would an iChat not work with edge?

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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

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.

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

i tried on wifi though

I want

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

friekunater said:

•an IM client that works with ALL major services

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MobileChat's developer is making one with the official SDK.

•a monopoly game, just like the board game

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Too bad Hasbro holds that.

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

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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.

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Sims already dominates...anything else would be suitable to put on Installer.

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

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ehh...be kinda useless...wouldn't be allowed to play the iTunes games.

•a photo editing/tweaking app

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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...

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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)

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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

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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

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

ucfgrad93 said:

I want

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

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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.

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.

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.

Bassassin said:

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?

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

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

Scrabble - or scrabbulous (Facebook version)

A character counter for SMS

Musical Instrument Tuner

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A character counter for SMS

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yes, thats one important thing.

waterskier2007 said:

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

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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?

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: http://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

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

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

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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.

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

• Task list
  
• Basic text editor
  
• Photo editor