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A Year Later: iPhone Loves and Wants

iPhone wishes

1. Horizontal keyboard across all applications.

2. Cut, Copy, & Paste

3. pictures in messages

As for voice, don't all iPhone users drive bluetooth equipped cars?
 
currentinterest said:
1. Horizontal keyboard across all applications.
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Yeah thats a good one.

And album art mode reflects the current list not the total library.

And podcasts that are video play video not audio if you want from the podcast directory - some sort of settings to enable this to save me stuffing around. And a symbol to indicate its video.
 
What about more memory? I need at least 15 GB!!

Lose the AT&T tie-in.

3rd party apps, Epocrates here I come!

Everything else, +1....
 
I need to email the same message to more than one person easily. I am part of several committees and I need to send the same message to everyone at once. On Mail I simply create a group. I can email everyone in that group at once. I can do this from my computer, but it cannot be done from an iPhone. Hard to believe but true. Surely this would be an easy fix. I know some of you won't believe me, so try it out.
 
So will the new iPhone also have GPS integral & able to be turned off at will? Rotatable or dual cameras for video conferencing AND pictures? 3 or 3.5G? 802.11N? A2DP? Wireless sync? Video out for applications, not just iPod features? A better antenna? Better ear volume and speakerphone? USB Mass Storage Profile? Better grip-able case? WiMax? Flash & Java? Remote A/V streaming and ability to be used as a remote control to Macs, Windows & Apple TVs? Will any of these features be SW updates to existing iPhones?

Yes, this is my growing wishlist! ;)
 
To make my long list of loves and wants quick:

I love the entire device so far except for its limitations and missing features.

I want a better service provider and a real smartphone with real smartphone features.
 
Digital Skunk said:
To make my long list of loves and wants quick:
I love the entire device so far except for its limitations and missing features.
I want a better service provider and a real smartphone with real smartphone features.
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I don't know how well that works, but its an admirable effort at Apple-like simplicity. ;) It's the second line where it falls apart completely. "better service provider" is extremely subjective, and a "real smartphone with real smartphone features" uses a lot of words to probably only say "3rd party development support", which is only 4 clear words compared to 6 ambiguous ones. Even now, if you use a web app like BeeJive or EditGrid, you'd be hard pressed not to call these excellent programs unless you're just being biased. Even a thin client deserves some love, and a JS interpreter still runs locally despite all the gnashing and moaning. :D

~ CB
 
I cannot wait for the SDK. We're seriously lacking software for the iPhone, unless you're willing to jailbreak (which I did, but then reverted, as I didn't like the odd behaviour it caused).

1.1.3 will at least be something, and I hope we'll get that real soon!
 
UMHurricanes34 said:
- Ability to delete individual SMS messages
- More storage space for SMS conversations (8GBs of space yet I have to clear my conversations so often? I owned a BlackJack for months before the iPhone and never had to delete a single SMS message.)
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Yes! Thank you!

I read people who say, "I want such and such simple feature."

But honestly, what can be more simple than deleting a SINGLE DARNED SMS?! Why must I delete the whole "conversation?" Similarly, why can't I delete SINGLE CALL entries? I want to be able to do what cell phones from the 90s can do-- delete a single call from the log. ARGH!

Come on, peas, Apple?

And as an aside, more storage space for SMS would also be welcome-- I have v little audio and no video on my phone. I'm so willing to delegate GBs to SMS storage.
 
Cleverboy said:
I don't know how well that works, but its an admirable effort at Apple-like simplicity. ;) It's the second line where it falls apart completely. "better service provider" is extremely subjective, and a "real smartphone with real smartphone features" uses a lot of words to probably only say "3rd party development support", which is only 4 clear words compared to 6 ambiguous ones. Even now, if you use a web app like BeeJive or EditGrid, you'd be hard pressed not to call these excellent programs unless you're just being biased. Even a thin client deserves some love, and a JS interpreter still runs locally despite all the gnashing and moaning. :D

~ CB
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I agree with you, but let me make it more specific for more understanding.

1. A service provider that offer insurance for the device.
2. A service provider that will be using WiMax and not EDGE.
3. Phone as modem capability. I don't think that can be done via software.
4. iWork Mobile, something Apple should have included from the get go.
5. A real keyboard of some kind. I know the touch keypad is wonderful and all but I just haven't been able to use it as efficiently as a Treo's of Blackberries.

6. Disk mode.
7. There are more.

I love the UI, and I love th size of the device although i would take a thicker phone if there was a keyboard somewhere on it.
 
My biggest want is related to the reason I don't have an iPhone: I want to use the iPhone without switching to AT&T. Though an iPhone would useless on sprint where I live with kick ass EVDO coverage.

While an SDK is coming, if it's a DRM'd lock in type of thing, which looks likely, that's not going to do much for me.

Overall, at the moment, I'm looking forward more to the next generation PalmOS, if it ever arrives.
 
Digital Skunk said:
I agree with you, but let me make it more specific for more understanding.

1. A service provider that offer insurance for the device.
2. A service provider that will be using WiMax and not EDGE.
3. Phone as modem capability. I don't think that can be done via software.
4. iWork Mobile, something Apple should have included from the get go.
5. A real keyboard of some kind. I know the touch keypad is wonderful and all but I just haven't been able to use it as efficiently as a Treo's of Blackberries.

6. Disk mode.
7. There are more.

I love the UI, and I love th size of the device although i would take a thicker phone if there was a keyboard somewhere on it.
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Cool beans. :)

I feel stupid for predicting that Apple would support Bluetooth keyboards. For me, between full-size and credit card sized Bluetooth keyboards, I think most people would be more than satisfied. I think Apple will be leery to let that happen though (because the phone is so powerful, it will IMMEDIATELY eliminate the need for a laptop for many people). Apple really needs to support vcard OBEX profiles and wireless vcalendar entries. I'm happy they're clearly realizing issues like this, by their addition of "vcard" handling as an email attachment.

Regarding iPhone as modem... I think its perfectly fine to setup a proxy server on the iPhone and tether it wirelessly that way. That's what most people mean when they praise their jailbreak tethering (at least I think).

There are two things that I don't think Apple will touch. --A replacement policy for damage, and a "new phone" policy for keeping people up-to-date. Ironically, if you purchase it through Best Buy I think you can get "exactly" those two things... they'll probably even offer it to you. Not sure if Apple's rolled out to Best Buy yet, but I remember some notes being made about it.

~ CB
 
After owning my iPhone since early Sept and the BT handsfree since Christmas, here are my wants:

- Flash (Make it a setting in Prefs for Safari so that you can leave it off if you are burning too much battery.)
- Multi delete in Mail
- Ability to listen to music through my BT HandsFree earbud. (Really wanted it the other day as I stood in line at the Pharmacy....)
- Voice dialing through BT HandsFree.
- GPS iTrip-esque dock connector add on with integration into Google Maps.
- Radar option in Weather to be able to see a local radar animation.
 
Sdk

First, Apple will not make the SDK free. Never has been, never will be. Period.​

  • Xcode is free
  • Basic ADC membership is free
  • Apple SDKs are free

You can currently develop full featured desktop apps for free on OS X. So I'd expect the Apple iPhone SDK to be free, probably requiring an ADC membership to tie it to a specific developer for signing etc.
 
guet said:
First, Apple will not make the SDK free. Never has been, never will be. Period.​

  • Xcode is free
  • Basic ADC membership is free
  • Apple SDKs are free

You can currently develop full featured desktop apps for free on OS X. So I'd expect the Apple iPhone SDK to be free, probably requiring an ADC membership to tie it to a specific developer for signing etc.
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With Android now stomping its way forward I think Apple would want to foster as much development and innovation for the iPhone as possible to stay in the game.
 
What I'm missing

Missing mostly:

- copy&paste
- BCC in Mail !
- better IMAP support (Deletions still create duplicate Emails)
- receipt confirmation toggle for SMS, multiple SMS recipients
- more sound options to toggle for several functions
- more sounds to choose from

- for Hardware: only a stronger battery :)

Cheers :)
 
The True iPhone KILLER APP

Seems to me it should be obvious that, containing a microphone, operating system, and storage, the true KILLER APP for the iPhone would be DICTATION SOFTWARE. This of course, in addition to permitting the needed voice dialing, would let a user dictate an outgoing Email, the text of which could later be retrieved on a home computer or laptop, then to be filed, printed, whatever.

Now THAT would truly set the iPhone apart from all the other "advanced" cell phones, no?

Al Feldzamen
 
Voice dialing is NOT optional IMHO, especially on a touch-screen phone, since it is impossible to dial a number without taking your eyes off the road. Yeah...we're not supposed to do it, but most of us do.

C'mon Apple...this can't be that tough. Make the world a safer place and give us intelligent voice dialing, and maybe throw in voice control too. HTC does this very well.
 
I would like to see it open for any network, that would make more since to me since Jobs wants to sell so many. Why not set it up for every carrier?. im not getting it for the simple fact its on at&t. Thats my choice, i dont want to go back with them for so many reasons but want an iphone badly. oh well.
 
Annotate Photos

Being able to annotate photos would address several issues such as photographing store items and noting the item's price, specs, etc. and names +phone numbers of photographed persons. This should also apply to iPhoto.
 
Cleverboy said:
After the 1.1.3 stuff, I'd like Coverflow-Quicklook/Spotlight/Disk-Mode/Web-Download to come in hand-in-hand, all at the same time. Being able to use my iPhone as a PDF reader would be huge, whether its reading a manual, a reference guide, or a tutorial.

~ CB
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An iPhone PDF viewer already exists. You can find it here, along with lots of other useful stuff:
http://iphone.natetrue.com/

You can easily get it with installer.app.

That's why the only thing that Apple really needs to do is get that SDK out and give it full access to all features of the iPhone.
 
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