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iPhone 2.0 Allows Saving Photos from Safari

Hooka said:
I find it interesting that the most basic of functions gets this community so excited and the prospect of a function has it hanging by a thread.

These are not breakthrough functions, cut and paste and saving a picture. I think Apple has delayed most of these functions just because they can't come up with the most slick way to deploy said function. A cool swipe with three fingers and a tap at the end has delayed my full enjoyment of my iPhone. Don't get me wrong, I like my iPhone but I've had better, better functioning phones, better reception, better voice quality, better battery, better email.
Most of those phones could copy and paste and save pictures from day one.

So, copy a picture from a website to my phone does not get me that excited. Having to wait at least a month and a half more to be able to do that?! Why does everyone give the iPhone a free pass?
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Why? Because you knew exactly what you were getting into in the first place. If GM told all their SUV owners they were issuing an update to the computer that handles fuel management and they'll be able to now get 24mpg highway all the SUV owners would be happy but you, sitting there with your Prius might think it's lame.
You bought the phone fully knowing it had no saving of pictures from the web, saving e-mail attachments, MMS, the list goes on an on. But you bought it anyway and what you're getting now is a free enhancement of the functionality. Just because it's not new to the industry doesn't mean it's nothing to appreciate and get excited about.
 
bigmc6000 said:
While we're talking about pictures there's a couple of features that I'd like (I don't think they are too painful).

1) Save pics from Mail and have them sync back to iPhoto as "Mail Attachments" or something like that
2) Be able to send more than 1 pic per e-mail - this particular thing has annoyed me a number of times
3) Old hat I know but I want some freakin MMS for crying out loud. It's embarrassing when my friends with $20 phones are looking at a picture message and I'm sitting there trying to get viewmymessage.com to load (which hasn't worked for crap recently)
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YES YES YES. the most up to date phone should have features that are basic to most other phones and that have existed for years
 
bigmc6000 said:
Why? Because you knew exactly what you were getting into in the first place. If GM told all their SUV owners they were issuing an update to the computer that handles fuel management and they'll be able to now get 24mpg highway all the SUV owners would be happy but you, sitting there with your Prius might think it's lame.
You bought the phone fully knowing it had no saving of pictures from the web, saving e-mail attachments, MMS, the list goes on an on. But you bought it anyway and what you're getting now is a free enhancement of the functionality. Just because it's not new to the industry doesn't mean it's nothing to appreciate and get excited about.
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Not really what I'm getting at, but I see your point. I'm not unhappy that I have an iPhone. I'm unhappy with the progress to this point of the development of the product. I think if it was a Nokia or a Samsung phone people would be way more critical of it, because it's an Apple product, well you get my point.
 
This will be a great feature.

I like the idea of being able to pull images off the net and keep them without bookmarking the page.
 
Awesome.

...it's about time. Apple finally gets one right. Now we had better start seeing some signs of Copy & Paste...

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Of course we know that $20 cheapo phones can do all these basic functions already. That's exactly why we're excited. After having spent a small fortune, & getting locked into a two year commitment to what turned out to be a phone with the most potential and least actual usefulness, you'd be excited too to see Apple finally pull their head out & put the functionality in they should have over a year ago.
 
ThunderSkunk said:
...it's about time. Apple finally gets one right. Now we had better start seeing some signs of Copy & Paste...

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Of course we know that $20 cheapo phones can do all these basic functions already. That's exactly why we're excited. After having spent a small fortune, & getting locked into a two year commitment to what turned out to be a phone with the most potential and least actual usefulness, you'd be excited too to see Apple finally pull their head out & put the functionality in they should have over a year ago.
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Yeah.... what about copy and paste? It can't be that hard to implement.
 
I found out you can also download pictures from emails too. Not sure if it was mentioned. But its nice, wanted that since day one, as im sure everyone else has as well.
 
Tosser said:
Who made you the moral watchman? Do you think that Apple should even have a say in what can and cannot be put on their products?
"Rolleyes" indeed.
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quite a reaction no? i don't think the poster you quoted even cared about the morality, just a side note. great form mate!

as for porn: many are flash based...
 
shigzeo said:
quite a reaction no? i don't think the poster you quoted even cared about the morality, just a side note. great form mate!

as for porn: many are flash based...
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Propably, but who needs yet another american to act like we need corporations to "protect people" from all sorts of bible belt "immorality".
 
Yes, they are downloaded to the camera roll, same as the ones from emails.
 
cbrain said:
Apple should add a "Downloaded Pictures" section.
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You never know, they might, kinda seems pointless though, they should just have a "pictures" for both photos and downloaded images, but when in the camera app, when you see the photos you have, it should just show pictures, not downloaded ones...maybe...
 
mkrishnan said:
This will be a good feature. Although I agree, native MMS handling would be better.

Just to make everyone aware... there is also this tool for Jailbreaked phones, IMGrab:

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2008/03/iphone-imgrab.html

It's not perfect, but at least with T-Mobile's web-based MMS retrieval, is functional in downloading reasonably high-res versions of MMS pictures to the camera roll.
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So I have noticed something with Apple's "updates." I have noticed that a LOT of the new "features" they have been adding to the iPhone/iPod are (a lot of the time) already available to Jailbroken phones. Let me list them.

1. This saving of pictures (as noted above)
2. Multiple pages on the Home Screen (Summerboard made this possible ages ago. In fact I remember before Apple made this a standard, that this is one way I impressed my friends who's iPhones weren't Jailbroken)
3. Home Screen Layout customization (Customize, and I believe some other apps let you do do this awhile ago as well)
4. App Store.... Installer anyone?
5. Instant Messenger (Apollo and MobileChat. Now I know Apple hasn't OFFICIALLY announced anything regarding this, but they have shown a patent showing a GUI for it and also AOL showed of a Native AIM app)
6. MMS (There is an app that allows this, although it's been pretty wonky IMO)
7. Make your own ringtones for free using Garageband (now I know this one isn't HUGE, but before you were able to use Garageband to make your own custom ringtones, you could edit your mp3s in any app and then use iToner, or something similar, to get the ringtone onto your phone)

That is all I can think of right now, but I am sure there is more I am missing. What do you think Apple will implement from the Jailbroken community? Maybe themes? Don't get me wrong I LOVE Apple, but when they are coming out with "new" features that I have already had on my phone for months, I just don't get too excited. I do like that they are implemented better, less buggy, better GUI, etc. But part of the fun in hacking my phone is when I get to "geek out" and try to fix something that myself or an app messed up ;)
 
Saving images...

:confused:

I tried to save a photo off of the internet with my iPhone...
but it didn't work...

what now?
am I doing something wrong?

also... I can't put music on my i Phone.
iTunes doesn't even recognize that my iPhone is plugged in...

any help is much appriciated. :D
 
Slowkid said:
:confused:

I tried to save a photo off of the internet with my iPhone...
but it didn't work...

what now?
am I doing something wrong?

also... I can't put music on my i Phone.
iTunes doesn't even recognize that my iPhone is plugged in...

any help is much appriciated. :D
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I just tried it. While looking at a picture in Safari simply hold your finger on the photo and after about 3 seconds in asks you if you want to save it. When you save it it goes to the camera roll.
 
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