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Let's compile a list of features/upgrades/fixes for future SOFTWARE updates.

I posted this in another thread, but I'll just give a quick note here as well.

The iPhone needs a finder. It could have the option to look like 10.5's coverflow view and incorporate quick look to view word, pdf, and keynote documents among others.

iPhone should also mount on your desktop on your computer and let you drag/drop files into it, that you can then browse through the iPhone's finder.


Its rediculous that you have to email documents to yourself in order to review a word doc on the go. Email is a very clumsy file organizer.
 
new features

First, I love the phone and have no complaints, but these would be nice as well as all that have been listed.
Forgive me if I list something that is available but have not found yet.
Not in order of importance......
1 - ability to send a contact to another phone via sms from the contact you want to send
2 - a way to program a persons cell phone address so you can send pics to a non e-mail phone
3 - a way to view an estimate of time remaining if you click on the battery icon like on my macbook pro
4 - a widget to book with fandango like the new widget coming in leopard
5 - ability to record videos
*****6 - EXCHANGE PUSH
7 - tabbed mail accounts to easily swith between without going back 2 clicks and forward two clicks
8 - external storage space for movies, maybe a dock to compact flash connector
 
mduser63 said:
iPod (ie. music playback) crashes often for me when I try to listen to music while while using Safari. I haven't seen anyone else reporting this though, so maybe it's just me?
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i think it's everybody. it happens to me, and it happened to the iphones i tried out at the apple store. i haven't tried on my friends' iphones, but i haven't encountered one that didn't.
 
Software

Like Jobs said, what's really great about the iPhone, is that [nearly all of the complaints] can be addressed with SOFTWARE. (Except 3G, GPS, and Storage Capacities)

ESSENTIAL

- LANDSCAPE KEYBOARD for all text entry fields
- Voice Dial/Command
- Voice Recorder
- Optional Double-space Period Insertion
- Period on Vertical Keyboard
- Custom Ringtones
- Individual Song Syncing
- NO enlargement of keys when entering password fields
- Video recording
- Disk mode or File drop box or Downloads folder (Some way of saving files for storage and transfer)
- Optional reminder noise for missed calls/texts as mentioned earlier in this thread. MUST BE OPTIONAL.

NICE TO HAVE

- iChat (Doubtful. Obviously SMS was originally going to be iChat, but was nixed because SMS is $$$)
- MMS (Maybe, MMS is $$$, but not having it might drive iPhone sales/establish precedent a la floppy-less iMac)
- Spotlight search
- Select Hold Music
- AT&T logo next to AT&T phone numbers to identify M2M
- More search choices (Google and Yahoo are fine and all, but I wish you could choice more providers/set your own, especially for Wikipedia, IMDB, and Amazon. I guess it's because of Eric Schmidt.)
- Standard set of Widgets (Unit Converter, Movies, ESPN, Flight Tracker, Ski Report, Translator, Dictionary/Thesaurus)
- Scientific Calculator/Grapher
- Alarm Only and Vibrate-then-Ring volume settings
- GAMES! (Most likely quiz, board game, card game, touch-friendly games at first)
- PowerPoint Reader
- Leopard Text-to-Speech Technology
- High Quality Speech-to-Text Technology



While I'm posting, I want to remind viewers of a few things that have been CONFIRMED that MANY people tend to forget.


1) They are already working on a 3G iPhone. (Said at Macworld by Steve Jobs himself)

2) Software updates WILL be provided. Revenues are being recognized over 24 months so that all functionality improvements are complaint with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. (Apple press release)

3) AT&T and Apple reached an exclusive multi-year agreement. (AT&T Mobility Chair Stan Sigman at Macworld)
 
1. Call history able to show the length of each call as well as the precise time of each call (not just "yesterday").

2. Ability to delete individual entry in the call history, instead of blanket delete all history.
(This is CRUCIALLY important because I often have to erase some numbers for privacy issues while keeping the rest of the call history intact so no one would notice/get suspicious.)

3. Alarm repeat is quite sad. It's only "Monday" or "Tuesday" or "Wednesday"... You can't just pick Weekdays or MWF....

4. INDIVIDUALLY MANAGE MUSIC/VIDEO/TV SHOWS!! I know people said it already, but I think this is the TOP issue.

5. When rendering some websites, music playback will crash (yes, crash as in the music will stop and when I go to iPod it will not know what song I just played) perhaps due to resource intensive page. This is either a bug or an unknown feature to keep the system resource dedicated to rendering a page.

6. Ability to adjust brightness quickly. On blackberry for example, the "stand by" button can toggle between BRIGHTEST, auto (not so bright) or Dark.

7. Check for email more frequently.

8. LOUDER and CUSTOMIZABLE incoming sms and email sounds.

9. Browsers seem to be unresponsive until full page is loaded.

10. Add a feature in Safari that will make the browser to pretend to be a WAP browser so some webpages will recognize it as a mobile browser so I can access the faster wap version.

11. FLASH, FLASH, FLASH!!! Without flash lots sites are useless such as wynnlasvegas.com, movie trailers on rottentomatoes and fandango, porn, hotdogonastick.com, etc.

12. Not just flash, but also WMV.

13. JavaScrip based drop down menu on certain websites such as udn.com require mouse-over in order to expand the menu. HOW IN THE WORLD CAN I ACCESS THOSE MENU ON IPHONE WHERE SUCH MOUSE DOES NOT EXIST?!?!?!?!


14. DO NOT CAPITALIZE THE FIRST LETTER OF MY USERNAME IN SAFARI!!!!!!!!!!!

15. PLEASE, PLEASE, DOUBLE SPACE FOR PERIOD LIKE BLACKBERRY, and FOR CHRIST SAKE, GIVE ME COMMA AND PERIOD ON FIRST KEYBOARD!!
 
Essentials:

- to do list synced from iCal to calendar app
- file browser
- ability to select files to attach in email, visible file structure
- mms
- landscape keyboard for email/sms
- bluetooth syncing for exhanging files between other phones and computer
- voice recorder
- ability to save files from internet, and be able to access and manage in file browser
- auto correct keyboard in safari
 
SMS:
How about the ability to send and receive pictures with the SMS program. My buddy sent me a picture from his $100 phone in his text message program. In order to see it I had to log-on to AT&T's website and enter a 9 digit picture id and a password to see it. I had to write the password and id numbers down on paper because there is no cut and paste. Sure I can send and receive pictures with email, but most of my friends cant with their phones, only via SMS or MMS. For $600 I would like this feature please.


Google Maps:
To be able to set a location by selecting an area of the map with my finger and have that location entered into either the search window of the map or into the to/from text area for the point to point driving instructions. It seems the only way to select a location currently is to know the address of your location or the name of it.

Also I would like more than one page of results when searching. I did a search for pizza at my current location. I typed in "19020 pizza" Zip code followed by what I am after. I got about 10 results, all within a mile or so. but there was no link for the next page of results. The pizza place that I wanted was a little further away. I knew the general area where it is located, but I could not select that area of the map as the center of my search radius. I should be able to by tapping the map or something. Or like the full size Google maps, have more pages full of results for me.


Contacts (phone):
I have a couple hundred contacts, and you choose them by scrolling? Lame! It needs a search similar to itunes search. I want to type in bob and have all my bobs' listed. The problem occurs when I want to call a Bob that I can picture in my head, but I can't remember his last name. And all of the contacts are listed by last name. Seems simple enough, search please.

But for the most part, the phone is awsome! I love the thing. I just wish it could be perfect.
 
Great thread. Many of the suggestions are very interesting; some I would need and appreciate and others not so so much but are truly valid.

I miss multilingual when messaging. the corrector drives me a little crazy when I'm typing in spanish. Most phones come with this feature.

Voice dialing? (I think it doesn't have it)

Hardware: Changeable battery -- Maybe in a next generation model.
 
I'd like to save email attachments to my screensaver. I could've sworn I saw stevo do it on a presentation.

Wow, people need email refreshed every minute?
 
1. If I'm on the home screen with all the apps, it would be excellent if the home button would pause music playback.

2. Safari password saving and cookies seems flunky. And hey, why are my webform password items not being synced from my Keychain?

3. Home button again, what if one tap goes back one page in the application, and tap+hold goes back to the home screen?

4. Second the comments about Finder and such, this phone reminds me a lot of my old PDA in some ways, and not so much in other ways.
 
Not sure if its user error on my part but I noticed that if I reply to an email and want to attach a file I can't. I can only attach a file when I start a NEW message. Thats pretty annoying. Again maybe its just me.
 
I'll probably repeat what has been said but:
1. mms
2. ability to attach files at anytime during emailing; replying forwarding etc.
3. ability to store and edit files, attachments and stuff from browser
4. browser home page button
5. louder volume system wide
6. "nag" feature on alerts
7. ability to customize alert tones
8. landscape ability systemwide
9. video camera
10. email / text groups !
 
eddietr said:
I would love to see a double tap on the spacebar to end a sentence, insert period, and space. (like blackberry)
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Yeah, that would be really smart.
Hopefully they will make up for that in a software update.
 
My wish list..so far

1) Todo list & note syncing
2) Coverflow style dashboard for 3rd party widgets
3) Landscape keyboard for anything
4) Rss News reader
5) Home/Work mode for two separate sync profiles for contacts/calendar
6) Picture Frame mode when you doc the iphone it should display a photo of your choice on the display.
7) louder speaker
8) Vertical scroll using the bezel edge instead of the screen
 
Needed improvements

- More accessible period (on keyboard or double-space period)
- Louder volume system wide
- Individual Song Syncing
- Disk mode for desktop access (like my iPods)
- Save files from email and download (save a pic from email into photos, and download a PDF from a website and save to iPhone)

So far so good.
 
Things that can all be changed/added by a software update (bold = major problem for me):-

- Undo.
- Open link in new window in Safari
- Download/upload files in Safari (requiring a "Finder")
- Record video/audio with the camera
- (Not so important) Photobooth effects for fun, on the camera
- Full attachments in email (requiring a "Finder")
- Spotlight, particularly for emails, calendar appointments, notes, etc.
- Holding (or double-tapping) back/forward buttons in Safari gives you a recent history of 10 or so pages to instantly jump to (assuming it doesn't already do this?)
- eWallet type app for storing sensitive information, encrypted/passworded
- Google Maps integration with external bluetooth GPS receiver for sat-nav
- Highlight text to edit (bulk delete, copy, paste, cut)
- iWork for iPhone (pretty sure this isn't far off), with a special new "docking" interface from Apple for extensive work, ie. writing docs etc. with a keyboard on it and other controls.
- iTunes Ringtones (has to be on the way)
- iChat with Jabber (particularly MSN) support
- More customisation for the interface - ie. SMS bubbles colours, whether you want a new SMS to pop up or load in the background, etc.
- A phone/envelope/calendar symbol in the status bar at the top, to indicate a missed call, txt, email, or reminder. This just serves as a constant reminder you've got an unread txt/missed call, if you're doing something else on the phone and aren't neccessarily looking at the home screen (ie. writing ANOTHER txt message or email, browsing the web, listening to the iPod, etc.)
- Vibrate option for events other than just an incoming call! ie. Txt message, calendar reminder, etc. (not 100% if it doesn't do this already, both in RING and SILENT modes).
- Ability to customize the individual sounds for txt message, calendar reminder, email, etc.
- Some basic punctuation keys on the MAIN keyboard without having to switch to symbol view - there seems to be room for these! "." "," "!" and "?" would be so much more useful being accessible all the time. Double-space for "." sounds good. Or better still, a customisable keyboard so you can add the symbols etc. you use the most.

Things that I hope for in 2G (hardware based, not upgradeable):-

- Built-in GPS, integrated into Google Maps
- 3G (instead of or as well as Edge/GPRS)
- 8 or 16GB capacities (especially when the map data is on there, and more apps/games to come, etc.)
- External LED showing when you have a missed call/txt/calendar event when you're not by the phone
- Hardware button on the side for the camera (the software button looks a little tricky, especially if in landscape)
 
I'm trying my hardest to hold off on buying one until a lot of these things that everyone is mentioning is addressed (the low volume systemwide, landscape keyboard systemwide, surfing and missing calls, crippled bluetooth... are 4 deal-breakers for me).

So the big question is.... how soon do you think until Apple has it's first update? I have to think that there was some cutoff point a month ago (or longer) for manufacturing to occur, and so hopefully (being optimistic) Apple has already been working a ton of this stuff out and something is very soon on the horizon??

Wasn't iTune 7.0 updated within like 48 hours to address a ton of problems... maybe this will be the case here too, and something will be available this week?

Thought?
Brian
 
SMS to multiple contacts

I'd really like to be able to send 1 text message to multiple recipients. i.e. "meet me at xyz at 8:00" to 3 people. right now i have to individually type out 3 messages....
 
camera that can RECORD VIDEO.

ability to EDIT word, exel docs.

ability to COPY/PASTE.

an LED on the outside of phone that blinks notifying you is you have a missed event.
 
nyctravis said:
I'd really like to be able to send 1 text message to multiple recipients. i.e. "meet me at xyz at 8:00" to 3 people. right now i have to individually type out 3 messages....
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You can't send sms's to multiple recipients? damn...

this phone still needs a lot of work..
 
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