The question is can we add/edit contact or calendar information on it. Only then it could really compete with PDAs...
that one sounds easy. super shocking if you
can't.
other people mentioned the video camera. there was a rumor running around that this magic see-show screen would be able to be a camera, too. nothing like that in the demo so i'm guessing the limits-of-physics "how would in the world would that be able to focus on something" issue was truly insurmountable.
what i want it to do:
1. run a smarter mobile version of filemaker. and from filemaker, i now want a widget builder.
2. bar-code scanning software that can use the camera. (i assume every app will have the right to use the camera.)
3. sync with many apps, through an extensible system like palm's.
4. sync data with my home computer from anywhere, having located the home computer using AIM or something. that screen-sharing gizmo in leopard implies cool things for the phone.
5. replaceable batteries. for a mobile phone this is crucial, if they went the ipod direction, they're joking. "sorry, my battery's running low. can i call you back in 2 hours after i find a place to plug this in and recharge?"
6a. i'm guessing there's no stylus because the sensor resolution is not so hot compared to touch membranes. if that's so, drawing apps and other graphical notations and visualizations are out, as well as many of the cross-referencing features that would make this a newton-child. we'll have to see what some of the third-party geniuses uncover in terms of the cool ways to finger-paint. i guess draw-and-photograph works okay....
6b. if there's a resolution limit on input, a tablet using this technology would need a second input device to allow precise cursor control. haven't seen the keynote video yet -- did he demo text selection or other precise action?
7. in-phone photo editing so i can post cropped image to a blog or web page, from anywhere.
8. GPS. for this much moola, you should know where you are even if you're outside network range.
9. the ability to send people text messages through their nike+ipod gadget. i don't need this, it would just be funny. actually with the accelerometer and network link this thing probably wouldn't need a shoe gadget, except to measure stride.
10. listen to music together by tuning in a stream from your neighbor on the bus, or by grabbing a playlist of songs in a burst then syncing the playback. similarly tv audio could be streamed so teeny-tiny tv (3tv) could be watched together without a headphone splitter. "[share audio]" would be a nice button.
11. dictionary and thesaurus lookup in every app is important to me. i'd like to have a gesture that feeds current selection to another widget-app-thing for processing. contextual menus would be fine. i really like using coverflow to move data screens around, that'd work for this, too, i think.
12a. again, i would
love to be able to email somebody a file that was on my home computer, if it's not shut down. if i'm not mistaken, to do this securely without much fuss, encryption keys could be exchanged by phone and computer during sync. when i needed to send or receive something, the phone and computer could decide whether the best option was to have the computer send it directly or to transfer it via the phone.
12b. "there is not enough space on this iphone for the [photo you just took/file you want to download]. send it to idisk instead?"
