Any Apple Employees that might leak info on a 3rd gen iPhone?

[Wildride]

Don't understand why so many of you Don't want the best iPhone possible?

The responses are a little surprising to me. I would have thought that most people would like the iPhone to be top notch in all areas.
And as far as Apple being held responsible if a driver gets into a accident or hits a pedestrian while trying to place a call while driving. It's true no one forces you to make a call while driving, so why the need for hands free laws?
It's not just personal responsibility, but for the good of all that laws sometimes are needed to limit things that might handicap/divert a driver's attention from the road. I drive for a living and have seen a lifetimes worth
of bad drivers. Since so many iPhones are being sold I'd prefer for the iPhone to be as safe to operate while driving as possible for the safety of myself and others. Sometimes consumers must take action for product safety improvements.
I've tried other touch phones on the market and non compare to the iPhones touch screen. HTC seems to produce the best touch screen phones on the market next to Apple. There are even iPhone themes you can install to make it work a little like the iPhone.
I also saw a couple of hardware add ons for the iphone. One gives it AD2P
and another is a blue tooth sync for hands free dialing in the car.
But before I spend any more money on products to bring the iPhone up to par
I decided to wait Apple out till the new year. Since there are so many touch screen phones hitting the market, I'm thinking/hoping Apple will get beyond firmware updates for bug fixes and add the missing features.

 

[aluren]

i actually think people are asking too much from apple sometimes... people who own the iPhone, did you purchased it because it was a great phone or because it was missing features? i could understand that some customer would want certain features, but overall, i think the iPhone 3G is a great phone. compare it to the blackberry curve which i've had, i was far more productive out of the iPhone, where i can instantly check stocks, weather, map, news, convert units, use a dictionary, find stuff on wikipedia, look for a good restaurant with yelp, and play all those games. granted, i can do all of that on the curve, but the time it takes to load the website and to successfully navigate to where i want to go makes me become alot less productive (time wasted)...

 

[eplchamps0304]

MMS is dead and annoying, use email..

. Can you back up this claim. Last time I checked almost every phone can do this. How is it annoying.

 

[MillieWales]

The argument that the iPhone is rubbish because it can't do voice dialling can be so simply countered by saying you don't need to use the phone at all while driving. Research shows that having a telephone conversation while driving even using hands free is dangerous as you are distracted, the best thing is to leave it in your pocket and talk to them later.

We used to survive just fine without mobiles, what is the big deal with having to use it while driving? For me driving is a break, I don't have to talk to anyone, I can just relax, enjoy the ride and turn the volume up, nobody can bother me. When I get out of the car I can listen to all the voicemail and reply to all the emails, its no huge deal. I run a busy company, a lot of people want to talk to me, they just have to wait, it doesn't kill them and the break does me good.

 

[eplchamps0304]

The argument that the iPhone is rubbish because it can't do voice dialling can be so simply countered by saying you don't need to use the phone at all while driving. Research shows that having a telephone conversation while driving even using hands free is dangerous as you are distracted, the best thing is to leave it in your pocket and talk to them later.

We used to survive just fine without mobiles, what is the big deal with having to use it while driving? For me driving is a break, I don't have to talk to anyone, I can just relax, enjoy the ride and turn the volume up, nobody can bother me. When I get out of the car I can listen to all the voicemail and reply to all the emails, its no huge deal. I run a busy company, a lot of people want to talk to me, they just have to wait, it doesn't kill them and the break does me good.

I barely use voice dialing on my other phone but it should be standard on a phone such as the iPhone. If the iphone had it I'm sure you would be singing it's praise.

 

[drewsof07]

Research shows that having a telephone conversation while driving even using hands free is dangerous as you are distracted, the best thing is to leave it in your pocket and talk to them later.

We used to survive just fine without mobiles, what is the big deal with having to use it while driving?

*I realize this thread is getting a little off track, but...*

1) For me personally, it depends on what kind of driving I'm doing on whether I feel safe talking on the cell. During the day, 4-lane that isn't busy, I can easily concentrate on a conversation and drive with no troubles. At night, busy 2 or 4-lane, I have trouble concentrating on the call because I'm more focused on driving as there are more things to think about at night (animals, drunk drivers, etc.)

2) Some people are addicted to being in communication with someone every waking minute (texting, talking, etc.). When they are forced to be in the car alone they compulsively call people to get social interaction. I couldn't imagine being in constant contact with someone... I'm not a very social person. But generally that's the rationale for compulsive cell phone users.

 

[MillieWales]

I barely use voice dialing on my other phone but it should be standard on a phone such as the iPhone. If the iphone had it I'm sure you would be singing it's praise.

I wouldn't be singing its praises, I think it should be illegal to use a phone at all when driving, whatever the make and however you are using it, I have had voice dialing on phones for years, I used it once on an old SE about 5 years ago to see if it worked (it was a bit rubbish) and have never felt inclined to use it ever again. If you have your hands available you have no real need for voice dialing, if you don't have your hands free then maybe you are too busy to use a phone. This has got nothing to do with defending the iPhone, the iPhone can stand up for itself with sales and reviews, it doesn't need help from me, I am not under the illusion that it is a perfect device (I can't usually get through the day without charging it up) and my post wasn't really about the iPhone but about phones in general and how sad it is that we now feel the need to have access to a phone at every opportunity.

Just my thoughts, each to their own.

 

[HawaiiMacAddict]

Thanks for All the replies. I've tried the voice dial apps in the app store and none are hands free, and more importantly none work with blue tooth.
With all the iPhones Apple forecast on selling "some 45,000,000 worldwide"
Am I the only one that foresees the coming danger here?
Through all the updates that have come and gone and still Apple has neglected to give the iPhone a traditional voice dial app, I think a pedestrian
will have to be killed by a driver trying to place a call on the iPhone first. Then after Apple is sued for millions and another billion in cost for recalling
iPhones already sold, and Apple's name is drug through the gutter, then maybe the iPhone will come out of the box with voice dial if it is to survive. I think it would be a strange twist of fate if the pedestrian killed was Steve Jobs himself. Of course then it would probably be swept under the rug and we'd see no improvements.
I've complained about this to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Hopefully more people will take a minute to send in a complaint and we can
pressure Apple to do something.
I'm curious if the Engineer who was known to be texting in that deadly CA train wreck was using a iPhone. Has anyone heard anything about that?

Here's a suggestion - why don't you buy a car with a hands-free system in place. I bought a 2008 RX 350 w/hands-free and have absolutely no issues, with the exception that I have to manually enter numbers into the vehicle's phone book. With the vehicle's hands-free system, I can either dial by name (if in the address book) or by number. I've only had one cell phone with voice dial and don't hold its exclusion against the iPhone. When I was in the market for a new vehicle last year, I chose one with a built-in hands-free system.

Failing that, do a Google search for vehicle-based bluetooth systems - the iPhone works will with most, of not all.

If you really want the iPhone to have everything you want, you're being unrealistic. It has what it has, and if that doesn't meet your requirements, buy another cell phone.

HawaiiMacAddict