No one mentioned the "Groups" button that also have been added. That's what I wanted. A group for friends, shops, family, work, etc.
Great stuff.
Groups has been in there since day 1.
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Search Contacts in iPhone 2.0?
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Groups has been in there since day 1.
Groups is a great feature, but as far as I can tell, you can only create/edit groups on your Mac in address book. It would be great if you could create and edit groups directly on the iPhone.
...you can't do that, right?
Every business man I know that uses the iPhone HATES that they can't search their literally hundreds of contacts. They have to seriously scroll for like 5 minutes sometimes just to find someone. This will be an answer to their prayers!
Forget all this piddly squabbling over searching in contacts.
We need comprehensive spotlight searching for the entire iPhone, compatible with 3rd party apps. Contacts, emails, texts, browsing history, Google search, etc from any application.
My bazillion-year old BlackBerry 8700 fleet has contact/email searching, MMS, email sending using designated accounts, email signature management, and copy/paste functions.
The iPhone is a revolutionary approach to mobile computing and media, but it continues to lack in basic features. I see no reason why the power of spotlight, and other technologies in Mac OS X, cannot be put to use on the iPhone to meet basic features (such as searching) and take them to the next level.
We need comprehensive spotlight searching for the entire iPhone, compatible with 3rd party apps. Contacts, emails, texts, browsing history, Google search, etc from any application.
My bazillion-year old BlackBerry 8700 fleet has contact/email searching, MMS, email sending using designated accounts, email signature management, and copy/paste functions.
The iPhone is a revolutionary approach to mobile computing and media, but it continues to lack in basic features. I see no reason why the power of spotlight, and other technologies in Mac OS X, cannot be put to use on the iPhone to meet basic features (such as searching) and take them to the next level.
How about some voice recognition? That would be better. Maybe an innovative style of it too. I am not talking about that lame stuff that makes you say the name for each contact before you can use it. Maybe the iPhone could listen to your phone call and pick out keywords and store them under each contact as a delete-able history. Say you're talking to a client about an upcoming project... some business names are mentioned and dates/times as well. With the iPhone's new smart voice history, if you forgot the number of the person you recently spoke with, you could just mention hints that have to do with a recent conversation you had. Then the software would narrow it down to possible matches. It could even automatically add a note to the dates/times in the calendar with a question mark next to it (not confirmed yet). Some people may be concerned about the idea because of privacy, but this would only be stored on your phone and only keywords (subjects, locations, times, dates) would be recorded locally to your iPhone. The iPhone could even detect a possible name of the person calling and apply that in the recent calls history. No more calling several random numbers in your call history, trying to find someone who you recently talked to for the first time.
That's a nice catch. I personally think it is just as easy to skip to the letter of the contact you are looking for, but I guess if you are using the phone for work at a big business and have like 500 contacts it would come in very handy.
It looks like there might finally be some updates to the Calculator app, too:
http://dialog-box.com/2008/03/09/20-tidbits/
Maybe at least a few higher-level functions?
http://dialog-box.com/2008/03/09/20-tidbits/
Maybe at least a few higher-level functions?
Oh, sure, that'd go over well. People freaked when they thought iTunes was reporting to Apple what they were listening to (iTunes Mini-Store).
The only thing stopping me
Hopefully this rumor is true. I manage a large contact list of often half remembered names. Without the ability to search by First or Last name, job title, category, company name or keyword, my contact list would be all but useless. Apple should look to the functionality of the Palm OS contact list for inspiration. There are many more types of information allowed, even a place to put a picture if you are bad with faces. If Apple fails to act, perhaps some 3rd Party Developer will fill this void. Until the contact list (and hopefully calendar) is fully searchable, many of us are unable to be iPhone customers, no matter how many other features it has that we would want.
Hopefully this rumor is true. I manage a large contact list of often half remembered names. Without the ability to search by First or Last name, job title, category, company name or keyword, my contact list would be all but useless. Apple should look to the functionality of the Palm OS contact list for inspiration. There are many more types of information allowed, even a place to put a picture if you are bad with faces. If Apple fails to act, perhaps some 3rd Party Developer will fill this void. Until the contact list (and hopefully calendar) is fully searchable, many of us are unable to be iPhone customers, no matter how many other features it has that we would want.
Only ONE instance!
Well, I watched the video for this again and it is indeed there. HOWEVER, there are about 5 different spots where it shows the contact screen and ONLY one time does it have the spotlight search icon there. All the other times it is NOT, it just goes from A-# like normal.
I think it would be much better implementation to add a button to the menu bar up top (like they do in any other app that can search) instead of a teeny tiny little search icon with the alphabet list.
Also, my guess is we will FINALY get copy and paste as well as a bunch of other features that people have been whining about, but NOT MMS. I think Apple will let a 3rd party do that because they want to push E-Mail not old technology.
Well, I watched the video for this again and it is indeed there. HOWEVER, there are about 5 different spots where it shows the contact screen and ONLY one time does it have the spotlight search icon there. All the other times it is NOT, it just goes from A-# like normal.
I think it would be much better implementation to add a button to the menu bar up top (like they do in any other app that can search) instead of a teeny tiny little search icon with the alphabet list.
Also, my guess is we will FINALY get copy and paste as well as a bunch of other features that people have been whining about, but NOT MMS. I think Apple will let a 3rd party do that because they want to push E-Mail not old technology.
lots of contacts...
I have just over 1,000 contacts in my address book that I sync with iSync in my Motorola SLVR. The annoying thing about that is it actually has an entry in the address book for each phone number. So in my contact list there's probably 1500+ contacts to account for home, work, fax, etc.
I had to set up my contact list to look up by name, so I pretty much have to type in each person's complete name to pull up their name with any speed. it's annoying but more effective. I don't know how well that would work on the iphone.
I have just over 1,000 contacts in my address book that I sync with iSync in my Motorola SLVR. The annoying thing about that is it actually has an entry in the address book for each phone number. So in my contact list there's probably 1500+ contacts to account for home, work, fax, etc.
I had to set up my contact list to look up by name, so I pretty much have to type in each person's complete name to pull up their name with any speed. it's annoying but more effective. I don't know how well that would work on the iphone.
ooh yes that would be a killer - that would save a lot of time being able to simply being able to search contacts..
iPhone is going to wipe up RIM BlackBerry - having more features - esp. the fact that iPhone can be configured with a normal data tariff once jailbroken while RIM BB must use BIS/BES internet settings..
i can see this phone fitting snugly in a corporate environment - the next thing you will know that all large companies will start to replace their PCs with macs..
iPhone is going to wipe up RIM BlackBerry - having more features - esp. the fact that iPhone can be configured with a normal data tariff once jailbroken while RIM BB must use BIS/BES internet settings..
i can see this phone fitting snugly in a corporate environment - the next thing you will know that all large companies will start to replace their PCs with macs..
You are not kidding! This is the most important advance for business since I bought my iphone. Maybe a To Do List next?
Groups is a great feature, but as far as I can tell, you can only create/edit groups on your Mac in address book. It would be great if you could create and edit groups directly on the iPhone.
...you can't do that, right?
Once your "Groups" are on your iPhone from iTunes you can then add new contacts right into the Groups. You can't sort existing ones yet. That has to be done on iTunes.
Iphone software 2.0
Apple showed us just some of the updates coming with 2.0. We all know that a 3g iPhone is coming (most likley in June, Sepetember at the latest) and i believe that their is a lot more in th 2.0 update that will be shown when the 3g iphone comes out.
Apple showed us just some of the updates coming with 2.0. We all know that a 3g iPhone is coming (most likley in June, Sepetember at the latest) and i believe that their is a lot more in th 2.0 update that will be shown when the 3g iphone comes out.
It's still nice to think that Apple is looking to solve those basic problems at their end. I'd hate for the SDK to give them an "out" regarding development of key new features.
Done in Address Book, I think you mean.
But even that ability seems limited. I'd really like to be able to assign ringtones in Address Book. Going through 100+ to give them all the same sound via the iPhone interface == big, big pain.
the SDK can't add features, only applications .... and the apps can't run in the background, and you can only use one app at a time ...
how the ... do you people catch these small things... if my life counted on me finding that on my own, I might as well start digging...