Yes! Better use of notifications!!! When I get a text and don't necessarily want to exit my current app at that second, click dismiss or close, it doesn't even show up as a badge and I forget about it. I hate the pop ups, they're intrusive and annoying. Something like Android's Blinds comes to mind...
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iPhone OS 4.0: A full GUI makeover?
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I think a small makeover would be good. But just giving us some customization options would be enough for me, things that a jailbroken phone can do now. It would keep a lot of people from jailbreaking so they wouldn't have to worry about that so much.
The stacks are awesome on the iPhone.
The stacks are awesome on the iPhone.
I don't think it needs a whole new UI. Maybe make it look different, but not new.
You don't just change the UI of things, that's what makes the product. Macs don't change UIs because they are old, the just make it look a little different and add a few things. Same for PCs, WM phones etc.etc.
You don't just change the UI of things, that's what makes the product. Macs don't change UIs because they are old, the just make it look a little different and add a few things. Same for PCs, WM phones etc.etc.
Wants for a new interface? Simple: A desktop. I want like what Android has. A desktop that has maybe some widgets for weather, SMS, etc. A calendar, etc. Clean. I get disappointed unlocking my iPhone and having pages upon pages of icons thrown at me. One of my favorite Android features is the home screen desktop.
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Wants for a new interface? Simple: A desktop. I want like what Android has. A desktop that has maybe some widgets for weather, SMS, etc. A calendar, etc. Clean. I get disappointed unlocking my iPhone and having pages upon pages of icons thrown at me. One of my favorite Android features is the home screen desktop.
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Totally agree.
Completely agree! I like to have pages organized by type of app (well, that's my mood today...
) and it's a pain to move many app icons around on the iphone itself... Would be nice to be able to make those changes on mini-screen representations in itunes and have it map over to the iphone.The android/HTC hero notification system is perfect. Icons appear at the top left hand corner of the screen, then just click drag it down to open up a drawer with all of your notifications.
See - and I like having quick/fast access to my first page of apps and would hate to have to go through a screen to get to them. I think there should be a lock/home screen with more info - perhaps widgets/alerts. But after sliding - either go right to the apps page and perhaps on the apps page they can have an icon "home" which would go to a page like uberamd suggested
I'd like folders, where I could just click on "Games" and go to games. "Utilities" to go to utilities. Etc.
TBH I have to say that the current system works very well and is very easy to navigate and find what you want.
The way all the icons and things on the screen are shown and the current theme setting does need to be changed. The ability to change how many icons show on a page and how the are displayed would be good to see changed so you can control where they go, not just clumped up at the top of each page.
The ability to theme. Change icons, the dock, and the background.
and also to be able to run 1 or 2 apps in the background.
TBH These are the only reasons that I jailbrake my iphone. I change the theme as i cant stand the sight of the standard OS.
I change the background from black to what i want. I have icons placed where i want, and i have backgrounder so i can listen to the radio while I read mail or look on the internet.
Some good points here as others have said.
The way all the icons and things on the screen are shown and the current theme setting does need to be changed. The ability to change how many icons show on a page and how the are displayed would be good to see changed so you can control where they go, not just clumped up at the top of each page.
The ability to theme. Change icons, the dock, and the background.
and also to be able to run 1 or 2 apps in the background.
TBH These are the only reasons that I jailbrake my iphone. I change the theme as i cant stand the sight of the standard OS.
I change the background from black to what i want. I have icons placed where i want, and i have backgrounder so i can listen to the radio while I read mail or look on the internet.
Some good points here as others have said.
All of your points are well said here, however, apple must resolve the lack of document and file management in the new OS. It needs to be integrated.
Mobile me is a complete failure and it lacks support of many, many files. It really does no more than airshare. I know know why apple is so deficient and its ATT network.
We need to be able to store, share, print and email all formats of file content and ATT doesnt have the capacity. MMS is now a challenge.
File management is the sole weakness of the current OS. You cannot even upload content from the phone itself including emailing a video over 10mb.
Such limitations cripple the functionality of our current phone.
I cannot wait to see the responses and rulings from the Fcc. I feel strongly that ATT forced Apple into work arounds and that is the reason the phone is functionally is so odd in managing content over ATTs network.
Mobile me is a complete failure and it lacks support of many, many files. It really does no more than airshare. I know know why apple is so deficient and its ATT network.
We need to be able to store, share, print and email all formats of file content and ATT doesnt have the capacity. MMS is now a challenge.
File management is the sole weakness of the current OS. You cannot even upload content from the phone itself including emailing a video over 10mb.
Such limitations cripple the functionality of our current phone.
I cannot wait to see the responses and rulings from the Fcc. I feel strongly that ATT forced Apple into work arounds and that is the reason the phone is functionally is so odd in managing content over ATTs network.
In the thread somewhere on here about the next iPhone I brought this up. I see an interface refresh and background apps happening, but background apps limited to the new handset (next June ofc)
they just need to make it feel new again and more appealing to the people who look at the other phones out there and think "that looks pretty...." then look at the iPhone and say "black background?". I know there's jailbreak, but your average customer probably doesn't even know it exists.
Btw, god bless copy and paste
jayenh said:
they just need to make it feel new again and more appealing to the people who look at the other phones out there and think "that looks pretty...." then look at the iPhone and say "black background?". I know there's jailbreak, but your average customer probably doesn't even know it exists.
Btw, god bless copy and paste
You didn't get the memo? TheSpaz is now on 3.1 beta 3 on both his iPhones and he's just going to suck up and deal with any issues he has (for now...)
Apple has never been much bothered about users who find the interface 'boring', they design for what they perceive as ease of use. Baring in mind the typical interface on cellphones before the original iPhone shook up the market, and how far everyone else has had to go to rethink the way users interact with their cellphones, I think Apple got the UI pretty much right for the vast majority of the market.
I also don't believe that the majority of users much care that this year their iPhone looks the same as it did last year. They don't look at the thing, they use it. And since the way they use their iPhones is pretty much the same, there's no real need for a wholesale change in UI. Nor would Apple be likely to pander to a vociferous few amongst their customer base and put the UI through a wholesale redesign that they don't think the majority of ordinary users would much need.
What changes 4.0 will bring would, I think, be much more tailored towards the new features and resources added into the iPhone since the first model, and be specifically intended to extend the ease of use factor into the growing complexity of the device. Better organisation and access to apps, perhaps, along with improvements made possible by a better hardware platform.
There's nothing much wrong with the iPhone's UI, and in the context of a mobile device operated by touch, much that is right with it.
I also don't believe that the majority of users much care that this year their iPhone looks the same as it did last year. They don't look at the thing, they use it. And since the way they use their iPhones is pretty much the same, there's no real need for a wholesale change in UI. Nor would Apple be likely to pander to a vociferous few amongst their customer base and put the UI through a wholesale redesign that they don't think the majority of ordinary users would much need.
What changes 4.0 will bring would, I think, be much more tailored towards the new features and resources added into the iPhone since the first model, and be specifically intended to extend the ease of use factor into the growing complexity of the device. Better organisation and access to apps, perhaps, along with improvements made possible by a better hardware platform.
There's nothing much wrong with the iPhone's UI, and in the context of a mobile device operated by touch, much that is right with it.
Ah, that must be why ugly colored smashed up cars are the typical cars you see on the road, right? To USE it they must constantly LOOK at it and when you look at the same thing year after year, it begins to look dated. Welcome to the real world, people do care about aesthetics.